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ELLIS PAPERS. Vol. I. General correspondence of Sir Henry Ellis; 1795-1866. The letters are mainly concerned with Museum affairs, excepting one group (ff. 18-24) which refer to his unavailing efforts, in 1811-1812, to be elected Director of the Society of Antiquaries. The names of the writers are all given in the Index. Paper; ff. 305. Quarto. A.D. 1795-1866.

Sir Henry Ellis, KH; Principal Librarian, British Museum: General correspondence: 1795-1866.

includes:

ff. 1, 14 Richard Gough, antiquary: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1795, 1806.
ff. 3, 5 Reverend William Warren Porter, of St John's College, Oxford: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1803.
f. 7 Reverend John Price, Bodley's Librarian: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1805.
f. 9 Michael Marlow, DD; President of St John's College, Oxford: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1805.
f. 11 George Gregory, DD; Prebendary of St Paul's: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1806.
f. 12 Taylor Combe, numismatist; of the British Museum: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1806.
f. 16 James Hall, of Salters Hall, London: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1809.
f. 18 Henry Pomeroy, 2nd Viscount Harberton: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1811.
f. 19 Thomas Dampier, Bishop of Rochester and (1808) of Ely: Letter to Sir H.Ellis: 1811.
ff. 20, 76, 85 George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1811-1827.
ff. 21, 23 Sir Henry Charles Englefield, 7th Baronet; FSA: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1811, 1812.
f. 25 Robert Banks Jenkinson, Baron Hawkesbury; 2nd Earl of Liverpool; Prime Minister: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1813.
f. 26 Sir Joseph Banks, Baronet; PRS: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1814.
ff. 28-259b passim George Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen; afterwards Hamilton-Gordon: Correspondence with Sir H. Ellis: 1816-1851.
ff. 29, 31 J. Alexander, of Maidstone; brother of William Alexander, of the British Museum: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1816.
ff. 33, 143, 220 Richard Westmacott, sculptor; Knight 1837: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1819-1844.
f. 35 George Woodfall, publisher: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1820.
ff. 37, 114 Sir George Nayler, Garter King of Arms: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1821, 1828.
f. 38 George IV of England: Note on the Queen's claim to attend the Coronation: 1821.
f. 40 Sir Robert Gifford, 1st Baron ;; judge: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1821.
f. 43 j. Barwis: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1825.
ff. 45, 133, 171 Thomas Amyot, antiquary: Correspondence with Sir H. Ellis: 1830, 1833, n.d.
f. 47 Solomon Gibson, sculptor: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1826.
ff. 49, 69, 87, 96 Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1826-1827.
f. 51 Joseph Planta, Principal Librarian, British Museum: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1826.
ff. 54, 121, 124 Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1826-1828.
ff. 56, 75, 94, 144, 146. 147 Major-General Sir Benjamin Charles Stephenson, GCH; Surveyor-General of the Works: Correspondence with Sir H. Ellis: 1827-1832.
ff. 58, 59 Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland: Correspondence with Sir H. Ellis: 1827.
f. 61 William Knighton, 1st Baronet 1812; Keeper of th, Privy Purse 1822: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1827.
ff. 62, 86 Charles Long, Baron Farnborough: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1827.
f. 63 Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, surgeon and antiquary: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1827.
ff. 65, 67, 92,116 Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury: Correspondence with Sir H. Ellis: 1827-1828.
f. 70 George Ashburnham, Viscount St Asaph; 3rd Earl of Ashburnham: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1827.
f. 71 John Caley, FSA; keeper of records: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1827.
ff. 73, 83, 97, 131, 175, 178 Sir Joseph Planta, the younger; GCH: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1827-1835.
f. 77, 134, 136, 137 John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst: Correspondence with Sir H. Ellis: 1827-1830.
f. 79 George Booth Tyndale, FSA: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1827.
f. 80 Charles Long, Baron Farnborough: Letter to G. B. Tyndale: 1827.: Copy.
f. 82 John Landseer, painter, engraver and author: Letter to Lord Aberdeen: 1827.
ff. 89, 159, 303, 305 Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne; formerly Petty: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1827-1833, n.d.
f. 99 Sir Henry Halford, 1st Baronet; physician: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1827.
f. 100 L. A. De la Chaumette, stockbroker: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1827.
f. 101 Reverend Philip Bliss, DD; Registrar of Oxford University: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1827.
f. 104 William Bray, antiquary: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1827.
f. 106 Benjamin Robert Haydon, historical painter: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1827.
f. 106 Robert James Carr, Bishop of Chichester 1824, and Worcester 1831: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1827.
f. 108 Stephen Peter Rigaud, mathematical historian and astronomer: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1827.
f. 110 Hudson Gurney, antiquary and poet: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1827.
f. 112 E. Burnett, of Kensington: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1827.
f. 115 Alexander Chalmers, FSA: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1828.
f. 117 Bulkeley Bandinel, Bodley's Librarian: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1828.
f. 119 Hugh Nicholas Pearson, Dean of Salisbury: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1828.
ff. 123, 174, 234, 245 Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet; Prime Minister: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1828-1849.
f. 126 Edmund Lodge, Norroy King of Arms; KH1832: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1829.
f. 128 Robert Ellis, Vicar of Burton Leonard, West Riding of Yorkshire: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1829.
f. 137 Elizabeth Vassall Fox, formerly Fox; wife of Henry, 3rd Baron Holland: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1840.
ff. 139, 238, 251 Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1831-1850.
f. 141 William Woods, KH 1834, Garter King of Arms 1839: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1831.
f. 148 Herbert Taylor, Lieutenant -General 1825; GCB 1834; Secretary to George III and William IV: Letter to Sir B. C. Stephenson: 1832.: Copy.
f. 150 Sir Thomas Phillipps, Baronet; of Middle Hill: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1832.
f. 152 Prince Christofor Andreevich Lieven,; Russian Ambassador in London: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1833.
f.154 Thomas B. Mash, Comptroller of Accompts, Lord Chamberlaiiz's Department: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1833.
f. 155 Newspapers: 'London Gazette': 21 Sept.1819, 17 Apr.1827, 26 Feb. 1833.
ff. 160, 161, 183, 184, 185 William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne: Correspondence with Sir H. Ellis: 1833-1837.
ff. 162, 163, 165 Édouard Colmache, Secretary to Prince Talleyrand: Correspondence with Sir H. Ellis: 1833.
f. 167 Le Couteulx, Secretary to the French Embassy in London: Signature to passport: 1833.
f. 169 Charles Dunoyer, Prefect, département Somme: Letter to - Delpire: 1833.: Fr.
ff. 172, 214, 215, 216 Sir Martin Archer Shee, PRA: Correspondence with Sir H. Ellis: 1834-1844.
f. 177 Samuel Rogers, poet: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1835.
ff. 180, 181 b Major-General Sir James Henry Reynett, KCB: Correspondence with Sir H. Ellis: 1835.
f. 182 William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1836.
f. 186 Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Baron Holland; formerly Fox: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1837.
ff. 188, 201, 212 Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1840-1843.
f. 190 John Henry Parker, CB; Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1841.: Printed. Signed.
f. 191 Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Bowater, Equerry to the Prince Consort: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1841.
ff. 194, 197 Sir Arthur Brooke Faulkner, physician to the forces: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1841.
f. 196 Reverend Josiah Forshall, Keeper of Manuscripts, afterwards Secretary, British Museum: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1841.
ff. 199, 231, 262 Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1842-1852.
f. 205 John Hulbert Glover, Librarian to Queen Victoria: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1843.
ff. 207, 210, 284 Sir Charles Augustus Murray, diplomatist: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1843-1854.
f. 209 John Wykeham Archer, engraver: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1843.
f. 218 Henry Dick Woodfall, publisher: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1844.
f.222 Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope: Letters to J. Platten: 1846.
f. 224 Albert Way, FSA: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1847.
f. 226 Alexander Ramsay, miscellaneous writer: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1847.
f. 227 Penny Cyclopaedia; The: Supplement to no. 175.: Printed.
f. 229 Xanthus, Lycia: Engraving of the Nereid Monument at: circ. 1842.
f. 229 Samuel Williams, engraver: Engraving of the Nereid Monument at Xanthus: circ. 1842.
f. 229 Art. Engravings, etc: Engraving after drawing by Sir G. Scharf: n.d.: Signed.
f. 229 Sir George Scharf, KCB; Director, National Portrait Gallery: Engraving after drawing by: n.d.: Signed.
f. 230 George Oliver, historian of Exeter: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1847.
f. 230 Pitman Jones, attorney and historian, of Exeter: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1847.
f. 231 John Ayrton Paris, physician: Letter, as Trustee of the British Museum, to Sir H. Ellis: 1847.
f. 231 Sir William Rowan Hamilton, scientist: Letter, as Trustee of the British Museum, to Sir H. Ellis: 1847.
ff. 231, 278 Sir Robert Harry Inglis, 2nd Baronet; MP: Letters, as Trustee of the British Museum, to Sir H. Ellis: 1847, 1853.
f. 232 Philippe Ferdinand Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, Comte de Jarnac: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1847.
f. 239 Sir Edward Augustus Bond, KCB; Principal Librarian, British Museum: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1848.: Copy.
ff. 240, 241, 242 Colonel Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, KCB; Keeper of the Queen's Purse: Correspondence with Sir H. Ellis: 1848.
ff. 243, 253 Edward Smith-Stanley, 13 th Earl of Derby: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1849, 1850.
f. 247 Sir John Bowring, writer, reformer and diplomatist: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1849.
f. 248 Sir John Bowring, writer, reformer and diplomatist: Visiting-card: n.d.: Chinese.
ff. 249, 264 Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay: Letters, as Trustee of the British Museum, to Sir H. Ellis: 1849, 1852.
f.255 Charles Dickens, novelist: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1850.
ff. 256, 291 Sir Anthony Panizzi, KCB; Principal Librarian, British Museum: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1850, 1857.
f. 261 Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian patriot: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1851.
ff. 265, 267 Anne Brodie, wife of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1852, 1853.
ff. 269, 289 John Forster, biographer: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1853, 1857.
ff. 271, 273, 293, 294 Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1853-1861.
ff. 275, 277 James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1853.
ff. 280, 282 Anna Gurney, Anglo-Saxon scholar: Letters to, from Sir H. Ellis: 1853.
ff. 286, 295 Philip Henry Stanhope, Viscount Mahon; 5th Earl Stanhope: Letters to Sir H. Ellis: 1855, 1864.
f. 287 William Mulready, RA: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1855.
f. 288 Edward Law, 2nd Baron and (1844) 1st Earl of Ellenborough: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1855.
f. 296 Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby; Prime Minister: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: 1866.
f. 298 Sir George Henry Freeling, 2nd Baronet (1836): Letter to Sir H. Ellis: n.d.
f.299 Charlotte Florentia Percy, wife of Hugh, 3rd Duke of Northumberland: Letter to Sir H. Ellis: n.d.
ff. 301, 301 b Sirjames Mackintosh, d 1832 MP: Correspondence with Sir H. Ellis: n.d.

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Names:

Abbot, Charles, 1st Baron Colchester, Speaker of the House of Commons, 1757-1829
Alexander, J., of Maidstone; brother of William Alexander, of the British Museum
Amyot, Thomas, antiquary
Archer, John Wykeham, engraver
Ashburnham, George, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham, 1760-1830
Bandinel, Bulkeley, librarian, scholar, ecclesiastic, 1781-1861
Banks, Joseph, 1st Baronet, botanist, naturalist and patron of science, 1743-1820
Barwis, J., correspondent of Sir Henry Ellis of the British Museum, fl 1825
Bickersteth, Henry, 1st Baron Langdale
Bliss, Philip, antiquary and book collector, 1787-1857
Blomfield, Charles James, Bishop of London, 1786-1857
Bond, Edward Augustus, KCB, Principal Librarian British Museum
Bowater, Edward, Knight, army officer; Equerry to Prince Albert, the Prince Consort, 1787-1861
Bowring, John, Knight, diplomat, politician and writer, 1792-1872
Bray, William, antiquary
Brodie, Anne, wife of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie
Brodie, Benjamin Collins, 1st Baronet, physiologist and surgeon, 1783-1862
Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, statesman, 1778-1868
Burnett, E., of Kensington
Caley, John, FSA, keeper of records
Carr, Robert James, Bishop of Chichester 1824, and Worcester 1831
Cecil, James Brownlow William, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, politician, 1791-1868
Chalmers, Alexander, FSA
Chaumette, Lewis-Andrew, merchant and stockbroker, fl 1794-1827
Colmache, Édouard, Secretary to Prince Talleyrand
Combe, Taylor, numismatist, of the British Museum
Copley, John Singleton, 1st Baron Lyndhurst
Dampier, Thomas, bishop of Rochester and of Ely, 1749-1812
Dickens, Charles John Huffam, novelist, 1812-1870,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000448885549,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/88666393
Dunoyer, Charles, of the Somme, regional administrator, fl 1833
Ellis, Henry, Knight, Principal Librarian, British Museum, 1777-1869
Ellis, Robert, vicar of Burton Leonard, West Riding of Yorkshire, fl 1822-1829
Englefield, Henry Charles, 7th Baronet, antiquary and writer on science, c 1752-1822
Faulkner, Arthur Brooke, Knight, physician, 1779-1845
Fitzmaurice, Henry Petty-, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, politician, 1780-1863
Forshall, Josiah, Reverend Keeper of Manuscripts afterwards Sec British Museum
Forster, John, biographer
Fox, Elizabeth, formerly Fox, wife of Henry 3rd Baron Holland, 1770-1845
Fox, Henry Richard, formerly Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, 1773-1840
Freeling, George Henry, 2nd Baronet (1836)
George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1762-1830
Gibson, Solomon, sculptor, d 1866
Gifford, Robert, 1st Baron, lawyer, judge and politician, 1779-1826
Glover, John Hulbert, librarian and antiquary, 1792-1860
Gordon, George, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, afterwards Hamilton-Gordon
Gough, Richard, antiquary, 1735-1809
Gregory, George, writer, clergyman and scholar, 1754-1808
Gurney, Anna, Anglo-Saxon scholar, philanthropist and geologist, 1795-1857
Gurney, Hudson, antiquary, poet and politician, 1775-1864
Halford, Henry, 1st Baronet, physician, 1766-1844
Hall, James, of Salters Hall, London; correspondent of Sir Henry Ellis, fl 1808-1812
Hamilton, William Rowan, Knight, mathematician, 1805-1865
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, historical painter
Howley, William, Archbishop of Canterbury
Inglis, Robert Harry, 2nd Baronet, MP, 1786-1855
Jenkinson, Robert Banks, Baron Hawkesbury, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister, 1770-1828
Jones, Pitman, attorney and historian, of Exeter
Knighton, William, 1st Baronet 1812, Keeper of th, Privy Purse 1822
Lamb, William, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, 1779-1848
Landseer, John, painter engraver and author
Law, Edward, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, politician and Governor-General of India, 1790-1871,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/15142030
Lawrence, Thomas, PRA
Le Couteulx, Secretary to the French Embassy in London
Lieven, Christofor Andreevich, Prince, Russian Ambassador in London, d 1839
Lodge, Edmund, Norroy King of Arms; KH1832
Long, Charles, Baron Farnborough, 1761-1838
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron Macaulay
Mackintosh, James, Knight, jurist, politician, and historian, 1765-1832
Marlow, Michael, President of St John's College, Oxford, 1759?-1828
Mash, Thomas B., Comptroller of Accompts, Lord Chamberlaiiz's Department
Mazzini, Giuseppe, Italian patriot, 1805-1872
Mulready, William, RA
Murray, Charles Augustus, diplomat and author, 1806-1895
Nayler, George, Garter King of Arms, 1764?-1831
Oliver, George, historian of Exeter
Panizzi, Anthony, Knight, librarian at the British Museum, 1797-1879,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000080764385
Paris, John Ayrton, physician
Parker, John Henry, CB; Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum
Pearson, Hugh Nicholas, Dean of Salisbury
Peel, Robert, 2nd Baronet, Prime Minister, 1788-1850
Penny Cyclopaedia
Percy, Charlotte Florentia, née Clive, governess to Queen Victoria, wife of 3rd Duke of Northumberland, 1787-1866
Percy, Hugh, 3rd Duke of Northumberland, politician and landowner, 1785-1847
Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph, surgeon and antiquary
Phillipps, Thomas, 1st Baronet, collector of books and manuscripts, 1792-1872,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083446892
Phipps, Charles Beaumont, Colonel KCB, Keeper of the Queen's Purse
Planta, Joseph, Principal Librarian British Museum
Planta, Joseph, the younger, GCH, diplomatist and politician, 1787-1847
Pomeroy, Henry, 2nd Viscount Harberton
Porter, William Warren, Reverend; of St John's College, Oxford
Price, John, Reverend Bodley's Librarian
Ramsay, Alexander, miscellaneous writer
Reynett, James Henry, Major-General KCB
Rigaud, Stephen Peter, mathematical historian and astronomer
Rogers, Samuel, poet, 1763-1855
Rohan-Chabot, Philippe Ferdinand Auguste de, Comte de Jarnac
Scharf, George, KCB, Director National Portrait Gallery
Shee, Martin Archer, PRA
Smith-Stanley, Edward, 13 th Earl of Derby
Spencer, George John, 2nd Earl Spencer
Stanhope, Philip Henry, 4th Earl Stanhope, 1781-1855
Stanhope, Philip Henry, Viscount Mahon, 5th Earl Stanhope
Stanley, Edward George Geoffrey, 14th Earl of Derby, politician and prime minister, 1799-1869
Stephenson, Benjamin Charles, Major-General GCH, Surveyor-General of the Works
Sutton, Charles Manners-, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1755-1828
Taylor, Herbert, Lieutenant -General 1825; GCB 1834; Secretary to George III and William IV, fl 1825-1834
Tyndale, George Booth, FSA
Way, Albert, antiquary, 1805-1874
Westmacott, Richard, sculptor; Knight 1837
Williams, Samuel, engraver
Woodfall, George, publisher; of Add MS 41312
Woodfall, Henry Dick, publisher
Woods, William, KH 1834, Garter King of Arms 1839

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