Manuscripts

James Wolfe collection of letters, autographs, and drawings

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Description: Letters, manuscripts, autographs, drawings, and prints related to James Wolfe, collected for their autograph value. Most of the letters are addressed to Wolfe's mother and concern's his effects and papers. The correspondents include Thomas Bell, Wolfe's aide-de-camp; Welbore Ellis, the 1st Baron of Mednip; Philip Hardel, a London goldsmith; Thomas Fisher, an executor of Wolfe's estate; William Pitt, the Elder, , and Samuel Francis Swinden, Wolfe's tutor, George Warde and Charles Warde. Also included are letters from Mrs. Wolfe to Wolfe's friend William Weston (1740, Dec. 16); Lord Shelbourne to Wolfe (1758, January); Wolfe's fiancee, Katherine Lowther to Mrs. Wolfe (1759, Oct. 25), and a note, in the hand of Thomas Bell, written at Montmorenci instructing "Major Dalling to come to Headquarters with both the captured women").
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1740-1859.
Call number: mssHM 9667-9695

Correspondence: Elliot-Various, fragments, ephemera, photographs

Manuscripts

Correspondence between Bell and his fiancee concerns only with their private life. A few letters written by other soldiers after Bell's death, depict hardships of a Civil War soldier's life.

mssBellja

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Correspondence: Bowdish-Elliot

Manuscripts

Correspondence between Bell and his fiancee concerns only with their private life. A few letters written by other soldiers after Bell's death, depict hardships of a Civil War soldier's life.

mssBellja

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Correspondence: Bell

Manuscripts

Correspondence between Bell and his fiancee concerns only with their private life. A few letters written by other soldiers after Bell's death, depict hardships of a Civil War soldier's life.

mssBellja

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Research Material. James Robertson, 1714-1795: autograph notes & clippings, (1 p.), ([before 1843])

Manuscripts

This collection consists of Winston's four volumes of Theatrical Records & Memoranda (1803-1816, 1820-1830), research material for his work on the lives of various performers in the form of autograph notes, clippings and printed material. The remainder of the collection consists of manuscripts, letters by various British performers and theatre people, and documents related to the daily running of theatres, such as receipts, invoices, statements of accounts and cheques. Among the subjects of the research material and correspondents are: Tony Aston, John Braham, William Dunn, Mary King, Elizabeth Leak, Henry Lee, Louis Leoni Lee, George William Reeve, Frederick Reynolds, Sarah Butcher Ward, Thomas Achurch Ward, James Prescott Warde, Mary Anne Welsh and Thomas Welsh.

HM 79502

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Research Material. James Prescott Warde, 1792-1840: autograph notes, printed material & clippings, (16 p.), ([before 1843])

Manuscripts

HM 79510

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Autograph Letters

Manuscripts

Also includes letters from Louisa Powell MacDonald and their daughter to Professor A. J. Scott, Mrs. Scott, and their daughter.

mssHM 6322-6353

James Wolfe collection of letters, autographs, and drawings

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Research Material. James Robertson, 1714-1795: autograph notes & clippings, (1 p.), ([before 1843])

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