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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
Creator
Wolfe, James (1727-1759)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description
There are also letters that concern Wolfe's portraits and a collection of his papers in possession of the Rev. William Dealtry (ca. 1746-1834) and Dawson Turner's projected bioraphy of Wolfe; a portion of Robert Southey's unfinished and unpublished Life of General Wolfe (1831), poems on Wolfe's death including those by Samuel Francis Swinden and Oliver Goldsmith (the latter was published in October 1759); clipped signatures of Guy Carleton, Ralph Burton, and James Wolfe, and a copy of the engraving "General Wolfe killed at the Sige of Quebec. September 14, 1759" ( W. & J. Stratford, Nov. 17, 1792)
Provenance
In library.
Associated people
Bell, Thomas, (active 1759-1763.)
Bolton, Katherine Lowther, Powlett, (approximately 1736-1809.)
Fisher, Thomas, (active 1762-1763.)
Goldsmith, Oliver, (1730?-1774.)
Hardel, Philip, (active 1755-1760.)
Lansdowne, William Petty, (1737-1805.)
Mendip, Welbore Ellis, (1713-1802,)
Smyth, Hervey, (1734-1811.)
Southey, Robert, (1774-1843.)
Thackeray, William Makepeace, (1811-1863.)
Townshend, George Townshend, (1724-1807.)
Swinden, Samuel Francis, (approximately 1712-1764.)
Warde, Charles. (1869-1942,)
Warde, George.
Weston, William
Willson, Beckles,
Wolfe, Henrietta Thompson.
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