Add MS 89036/5/2

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• 54. No date, 'Private & Secret', [?]Wood to Adams. Refers to (frustrated) advancement. 'I fear my Fate will after all be to carry a Constitution impaired with Confinement & Business to a West India Island, there to put a finishing Stroke to it in the midst of all the Horrors of rebellious Negroism - What can be worse! - nothing in my opinion I assure you.'
• 55. No date, [?]Wood to Adams. Refers to advancement: 'In case I should meet with the good Fortune to be preferred to the Dignity of Under Sec. would you have any objection to my proposing you to Lord C. should I find myself enabled so to do, as His Lordship's Priv. Sec.'
• 56. No date, an unsigned note to [Adams]. Concerning the cost of document copying ('one penny a folio which is 72 words'). With message on the verso: 'Will Mary or Caroline read this to Mr. Campbell'.
• 57. Retained by Adams family descendents: Totnes, 20 June 1792, George Pownall (later Gen. Sir George) Adams to his brother W. D. Adams. Letter in verse.
• 58. Grosvenor St, 14 May 1794, H. Bristol to Adams. 'Intending to do Homage at the Levee this morning I wrote (as I was informed I ought to do) to Mr Dundas....'
• Items 59-61 retained by Adams family descendents.
• 62. Exeter, 16 October 1797, Bishop of Exeter [Henry Reginald Courtenay] to Adams. With thanks for Admiral Duncan's letter.
• 63. Totnes, 26 January 1801, [?Courtenay] to [Adams]. Copied verse. The initials at the end of the verse appear to relate to the author of the poem (Taylor) rather than the author of the letter: 'Having at Length procured a Copy of the Verses you desired me to send I lose not a moment in sending them being perfectly sensible how much more Entertainment you will derive from them than from any Composition of mine.'
• 64. 101 Bunhill Road, 25 December 1805, H. M. [ ]ehrens to Adams (for Pitt). A long and rambling letter referring to war with France.
• 65. College of Arms, 6 January 1806, Isaac Heard, Garter, to [Adams]. Nominating Adams to be a Gentleman Usher to the Garter King of Arms, at Nelson's funeral. 'The two Gentlemen who attend Garter will go in the same Coach with him and be provided with Mourning Cloaks.'
• 66. Retained by Adams family descendents: Bowdon, 27 January 1806, Louisa Sawyer Adams to (brother) W. D. Adams. A letter of consolation following Pitt's death.
• 67. Admission card No. 52. 'Funeral of the Late Right Honorable William Pitt. Admit William Dacres Adams Esq. / Treasurer of the Household of the Deceased / into the Procession.' Signed Isaac Heard, Garter. With black seal.
• 68. 28 February 1806. Certificate (signed by Edward Naylor) appointing Adams, by Royal Warrant, as Agent for Upper Canada in the Office of the King's Remembrancer.
• 68(i). 'Fees and Disbursements on taking the Security of William Dacres Adams Esq. as Agent for Upper Canada in the Office of the King's Remenbrancer'. £22.7s.
• 68(ii). 28 February 1806. Receipt for £22.7s. Signed 'E Naylor'.
• Items 69-80 retained by Adams family descendents.
• 81-81(i). Bulstrode, 11 December 1808, [Adams] to John Gifford. A draft letter, answering questions posed by Gifford about Pitt's life.
• 82. B[?] Cottage, 26 February 1809, [ ] to Adams.
• 83. Burlington House, 22 September 1809, Duke of Portland to the King. Copy letter in Adams's hand. Supporting the recommendation that the office of the Surveyor of Woods and Forests and the office of the Surveyor of Crown Lands should form a single office, 'by forming a Board consisting of three Commissioners, as recommended in the year 1793, by the Commissioners appointed by the House of Commons for that purpose.' Proposes Lord Glenbervie as Head, with George Villiers and Adams as Junior Commissioners.
• 83(i). Letter cover (endorsed 'Copy of the Duke's letter'), addressed to Mrs William Adams, at Sydenham.
• 84. Windsor, 23 September 1809, H[erbert] Taylor (on behalf of King George III) to Adams. Conveying the King's approval of the Duke of Portland's proposals (item 83 above).
• 84(i). Letter cover, with red seal, for item 84.
• 85. Burlington House, 30 September 1809, Adams to the Earl of Liverpool. Draft letter. Since the unification of Crown Lands and Woods & Forests offices require Parliamentary approval, there will be some delay in Adams moving to his new post as Commissioner. He therefore writes to be assured that he can remain in his present post for the time being.
• 86. Castleford, 19 December 1809, Theo. Barnes to Adams. Prompting Adams to use any influence he has to hasten the process of Parliamentary approval of the reorganization of the office of Woods & Forests, 'before Mr. Canning quite declares himself, for after that, our friends must cede'. Includes quoted statement by Glenbervie on Adams's character.
• 87. Orange Farm, Lynn, Norfolk, 15 June 1813, Fagel to [Adams]. Refers to Adams's brother in Bangalore.
• Items 88-91 retained by Adams family descendents.
• 92. [1845]. A personal note (of prayer) by Adams, beginning: 'This day I enter my 70th year and when I look back....' Written across an unrelated business letter.
• Items 93-98 retained by Adams family descendents.
• 99. Downing Street, 2 January 1805. [?]G.M. to Adams. 'The Acc[oun]ts. arrived from Hamburgh unfortunately do not convict the French of their usual exaggerations. The Battle of the 2nd seems to have been lost by the desperate rashness of Constantine & by the cool discrimination of Buonaparte....'
• 100-100(vi). Undated draft speech to the House of Commons concerning a declaration of war. There is an internal date reference on sheet 100(iii) to the Treaty of Commerce and Amity (31 December 1806) which 'has been annulled by the refusal of the President of the United States to ratify that Instrument'. The speech refers to recent action taken against Danish and Portuguese fleets [1807-1808]: 'To place out of the reach of this Confederacy [of the Continent] the Fleets of Portugal and Denmark was therefore the first Duty which His Majesty owed to his People' (100). The draft document is in Adams's hand, with alterations and additions in another hand (?Portland).
• 101. Undated brief note (by Mayow Wynell Adams?): 'All this anger arises from the fact that Lord Mornington was made an Irish Marquis (Wellesley) instead of an English Marquis which he wished.' (With an unrelated note on the verso, of later date, referring to the intention to insert 'odd letters' chronologically in Adams's papers.)
• 102. A dated receipt (May 1861) referring to the loan of Pitt's papers to 'S'.
• 103. Small bundle of paper wrappers for Pitt's papers, for the years 1784, 1785, 1792, 1793, and 1804.
• 104. Welbeck, 14 October, [?]Greville to [Adams].
• 105-105(i). 13 June 1807. Draft letter, in Adams's hand, to the Editor of The Times newspaper concerning an article published 'this morning' about 'the character' of Pitt. (See 'Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox', The Times, Saturday 13 June 1807, issue 7072, p. 3.)
• 106. Retained by Adams family descendents: 20 October 1805, Royal Warrant, with King's signature, appointing Thomas Hamlyn Bent as Assistant Commissary of Stores & Provisions to Our Forces in the West Indies at 10 shillings a day.
• 107. Burlington House, 'Friday evening', Huskisson to Adams. Marked 'Most Secret'. Refers to enclosed material (not present), of which 'a good many copies will be wanted to be sent tomorrow after the House is adjourned'.
• 108. House of Commons, 23 February [?1807], H. Wellesley to Adams. Referring to support in the Commons: 'Letters have already been written to every person within reach and I know that we have three hundred & twenty of our friends in town.'
• 109. Arlington Street, 'Thursday morning', Camden to Adams at Burlington House. Asking Adams if he will call upon him.
• 109(i). Letter cover addressed to Adams at Downing Street, 5 October 1804, from Lord Camden at Lamberhurst (not related to item 109).
• 110. Downing St., 'Wednesday' [?1809], Huskisson to Adams. Asking Adams to check his papers (and his memory) to discover 'who recommended Mr. Dowler to be an Assistant Commissary in 1805'.
• 111. Bulstrode, 22 December (year not indicated), to Adams. A brief note thanking Adams for 'the Gazettes Courier etc'.
• 112. Chudleigh, 'Thursday', W. Bentinck to Adams.
• 113. Without date, to Adams ('Private'), signature obscure.
• 114. Retained by Adams family descendents: 1807[or 9], Thomas Lawrence to [Adams] referring to finishing his portrait.
• 115. Mr Stranger's, Navy Agent, 13 Clements Inn, 10 December 1805, Capt. Monke to Adams. Requesting an interview, 'having some business of a particular nature to communicate'. The letter appears to have been used subsequently as a wrapper to house 'Private Letters 1805' (written on the verso).
• 116. Charlottenlund, [Denmark], 7 September 1807, John Drake to Adams. Reporting the bombardment and capture of Copenhagen.
• 117-117(i). Estremos [Extremos], 1 January 1810, John Drake to Adams. Reporting that the Army is marching to the north of Portugal, having left Badajoz.
• 118. Head Quarters, Cartaxo, 6 February 1811, [John Drake] to [Adams]. Fragment - second sheet missing. Further report from Portugal.
• 119. Manchester Buildings, Westminster, 15 August 1815, Rogers & Son [Solicitors] to Miss Mayhew [Mayow]. 'Mr James Edgler of Sydenham Kent has applied to us upon the subject of your having caused his dwelling to be pulled down about his ears without legal authority for so doing....' Marked 'copy', with a second copy letter (inside), 15 August, also from Rogers & Son, to Mr. Dightman, on the same subject.
• Items 120-142 retained by Adams family descendents.
• 143. 'Authentick Account of the Embassy to China By Sir George Stanton Bart. LLD / See Vol. I, p. 194'. Appears to be a copied extract (in rhyming couplets) from Sir George Staunton, traveller and Orientalist.
• 144. Addressed to W. Huskisson at the Office of Woods & Forests, franked (Brixham) 27 July 1815 (sender not indicated). A list of persons entitled: 'Captured on the 15th July at 7 O'Clock the Emperor of France ... and his retinue'. The list begins with 'Lieut. General Count Bertrand Head Field Martial of France' and records other senior personnel, wives, children and servants. With black seal. [Napoleon surrendered to Capt. Frederick Maitland, H.M.S. Bellerophon, 15 July 1815].
• Items 145-159 retained by Adams family descendents.