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Record Id:

040-002481105

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002431741

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ISAD(G)

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Add MS 89036/1/19

Title:

William Dacres Adams: Letters and Notes Received from William Pitt, the Younger, with some Miscellaneous Material

Scope & Content:

Document numbering continues from Add MS 89036/1/18.

78. Putney Hill, Pitt to Adams, 8 July [1804]. Seeking further information about the Army of Reserve.
79. Letter and wrapper with seal. Putney Hill, Pitt to Adams, 19 August [1804].
80. Letter and wrapper with seal. Tunbridge Wells, Pitt to Adams, 8 September 1804. 'Any further letters should be sent to Walmer Castle....'
81. With seal. Walmer Castle, Pitt to Adams, 14 September 1804. 'I mean to be in Town between Two and Three tomorrow afternoon.'
82. Sittingbourne, Pitt to Adams, 26 September [1804]. Books (not specified) to be sent from Putney.
83. Walmer Castle, Pitt to Adams, 30 September [1804]. Refers to correspondence, recommending [John Francis Seymour] St. John for the Prebend of Worcester.
84. Walmer Castle, Pitt to Adams, 4 October 1804. St John promotion to the Prebend of Worcester.
84A. Walmer Castle, Pitt to Adams, 3 October 1804. Will be at Mr Long's (Bromley Hill) for dinner on Saturday, and 'in Town' on Sunday.
85. Bromley Hill, Pitt to Adams, 6 October [1804]. Diary.
86. Letter and wrapper with seal. Weymouth, Pitt to Adams, 16 October 1804. Diary. Refers to seeing Wallace.
87. Letter and wrapper with seal. Walmer Castle, Pitt to Adams, 22 October [1804]. Overnight at Rochester.
88. Walmer Castle, Pitt to Adams, 25 October [1804]. Not in town until Saturday.
89. Putney Hill, Pitt to Adams, 3 November [1804]. Wishes to have sent to him two letters from Judge Fox to Lord Castlereagh.
90. Letter and wrapper with seal. Wimbledon, Pitt to Adams, 24 December [1804]. Enclosing letter (not present) to the King.
91. Putney Hill, Pitt to Adams, 3 January 1805. Take a copy of his letter to the Duke of Portland before sending it. Wants to see Select Committe Report (1797) on 'the Causes of the Stoppage of the Bank'.
92. Pitt to Adams, 2 June [1805]. Lord Rolle's Regiment.
93. Downing Street, Pitt to Adams, 6 June [1805]. Seeing Sir John Duckworth tomorrow.
94. Putney Heath, Pitt to Adams, 28 July [1805]. Send draft document to Lord Mulgrave.
95. Putney Heath, Pitt to Adams, 16 August [1805]. Duke of York.
96. Letter and wrapper with seal. Walmer Castle, Pitt to Adams. Refers to Lord Leveson.
97. Walmer Castle, Pitt to [Adams], 13 October [1805]. Refers to Lord Mahon.
98. Admiralty, Pitt to Adams, 'Thursday'. Detained - unable to see Mr Coutts.
99. Pitt to Adams, 'Wednesday 6 p.m.' Book request - history of Germany.
100. List of books. No date.
101. Wrapper with seal addressed to Adams at Downing Street. With Pitt's signature.
102. Priory, Pitt to [Adams], 'Sunday 7 p.m.'. Diary (Mr. Jackson, Mr. Smith, Mr. Foster).
103. Weymouth, Saturday 24 September [?1805]. A note in Pitt's hand. Leaving on Monday, stopping the night at 'at Mr. Bankes's, Kingston Hall, Wimbourn [Wimborne], and go on the next day to Mr Cannings at South Hill....'
104. Poem (translation) in Pitt's hand, headed 'Hor. L3 Ode 2': 'How blessed, how glorious they who bravely fall, / Their Lives devoted, at their Country's Call.' A translation from Horace, Odes, Book III, Ode 2. (Paper watermarked 1796.)
104(i). Wrapper for the translation from Horace: 'Hor. lib III Carm 2 / by the Right Hon. W. Pitt / W. Dacres Adams Esq / June 1861'.

Some miscellaneous material follows, including some letter wrappers, either undated or not fully dated. Some items are numbered in pencil (but this numbering belongs to a different sequence than the numbering above):

69. Dated 30 May. A note from Count Starhemberg, seeking an interview with Pitt.
70. Diagram. Music staves?
72. Letter without date. From Thurlow. Refers to correspondence with the French and with the Dutch. Endorsed: 'Ld. Chancellor / foreign affairs'.
74. Arlington Street, May 30th. Brief note from Camden to Adams mentioning Lord Boyle.
76. Bath, 10th January. Letter from Lord Melville to [Adams] referring to papers concerning the Navy.
Letter wrapper with red seal, addressed to Pitt from the Earl of Shelburne.
Letter wrapper with red seal, addressed to Pitt from Lord Grenville.
Letter wrapper with black seal, addressed to Pitt.
Letter wrapper with red seal addressed to Pitt.
Letter wrapper addressed to 'Wm D. Adams Esq / St. James Place'
Lower portion only of letter (signatures only) to Edward Thornton, from Hawkesbury.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002431741
036-002431785
040-002481105

Is part of:

Add MS 89036 : The Papers of William Dacres Adams, including Political Papers of William Pitt, the Younger
Add MS 89036/1 : William Dacres Adams: Political Papers of William Pitt, the Younger

Add MS 89036/1/19 : William Dacres Adams: Letters and Notes Received from William Pitt, the Younger, with some Miscellaneous Material

Hierarchy:

032-002431741[0001]/036-002431785[0019]/040-002481105

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 file

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1804

End Date:

1805

Date Range:

[1804]-[1805]

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Former External References:

PRO 30 58/7

Arrangement:

The order in which the manuscripts are presented corresponds to their former order in PRO 30 58/7 when in the custody of the Public Record Office (now, The National Archives). Public Record Office numbering remains, in red pencil, at the top left of each sheet or letter. The original bundle has been divided into three consecutive files: Add MS 89036/1/17-19.

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