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Add MS 89036/1/21
- Record Id:
- 040-002481268
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002431741
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100007672893.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89036/1/21
- Title:
- William Dacres Adams: Various Drafts and Working Notes of William Pitt, the Younger
- Scope & Content:
-
Document numbering continues from Add MS 89036/1/20:
- 56. List of some counties.
- 57. Notes regarding Militia and Volunteers.
- 58. Brief Budget sums.
- 59. Brief notes, 'Instructions on Commencement of War'.
- 60. Brief notes on Regimental strength.
- 61. Notes: 'Preparations', 'Encouraging Volunteers'.
- 62. Notes referring to lack of preparation for war.
- 63. Notes dated 'July 3' - Volunteer Corps.
- 64. Notes on amendments to unspecified document (or speech) on military topic - gives page numbers.
- 65. 'Expense of Recruiting Establishment' (1802-1804).
- 66. Brief notes headed 'Frigates for upper Part of Med.'
- 67. Brief notes dated 'Oct 25th' referring to smuggling vessels.
- 68. Brief notes beginning 'Bill for Embago and manning the Navy'.
- 69. List of numbered items with prices.
- 70-70(ii) interfolded. Notes on numbers of Volunteers at various locations.
- 71. Notes referring to Treaty in 1790.
- 72-72(i) interfolded. Draft speech referring to French boundaries.
- 73-74. Draft headed 'Paper A'. Refers to 'Evacuation of the North of Germany and of Italy'.
- 75-75(i). Draft speech referring to Italian territories.
- 76. Notes (numbered 1-9) referring to Russian and Austrian forces.
- 77. Speech notes on inconclusive progress of European negotiations.
- 78. Notes beginning 'Naples' (January 1805).
- 79. Brief meeting notes in five parts, on European matters.
- 80-80(i). Reports from spies, in Berlin and Hague.
- 81. Notes on troop deployments, particularly with regard to Russia.
- 82. 'From June to 1 Sept' - military deployment.
- 83. 'Deliverance and Future Safety & Tranquility of Europe'.
- 84. Brief notes (in pencil) - 'Supply' (1805). 'Ways & Means'.
- 85. Notes dated 26 January [1805]. 'Number of men raised in each year of former Wars as far as the same can be made out'.
- 86. Note of Parliamentary precedents (1689 and 1700) in the event of war.
- 86(i). Slim sheet of notes dated 'March 22nd'.
- 86(ii). Various brief notes.
- 86(iii). Notes on Naval matters, e.g. 'No. of Ships of Line that can be spared from the Channel Fleet out of 46'.
- 87. Abstract of Force proposed by Russia' (1805).
- 88-88(i). Draft of Joint Accord, King of Great Britain and Emperor of Russia.
- 88(ii). 'Charges hereafter to be voted by Parliament but now included in the Civil List' (1805).
- 89. 'Future Annual Charge of the Civil List' [?1805].
- 90. 'List of Such Members of the House of Peers as may be likely to attend in another Session'. List divided into 'Government', 'Opposition', 'Sydmouth' and 'Doubtful'. July 1805.
- 91-91(ix). Report on the 'Proceedings of an Extraordinary Meeting of the Whig Club held last week at the Crown and Anchor Tavern'. Annotated in pencil by Adams: 'A squib upon the unnatural union of the Grenvilles & Jacobins against Mr. Pitt in 1805. WDA.'
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002431741
036-002431785
040-002481268 - 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 89036/1/21 : William Dacres Adams: Various Drafts and Working Notes of William Pitt, the Younger - Hierarchy:
- 032-002431741[0001]/036-002431785[0021]/040-002481268
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89036
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1804
- End Date:
- 1805
- Date Range:
- 1804-1805
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- PRO 30 58/8
- Arrangement:
- The order in which the manuscripts are presented corresponds to their former order in PRO 30 58/8 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 document or sheet. The original bundle has been divided into four consecutive files: Add MS 89036/1/20-23.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)