Financial: Townshend Family Charitable Giving: Poor relief, Royal Jennerian and London Vaccine Institution, Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals, Sr. George's Hospital, Lock Hospital, Literary Fund, Promoting Christian Knowledge

Financial: Townshend Family Charitable Giving: Poor relief, Royal Jennerian and London Vaccine Institution, Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals, Sr. George's Hospital, Lock Hospital, Literary Fund, Promoting Christian Knowledge | Collections | The Huntington

Description: The collection consists of personal letters among the Townshend family members, business correspondence, land papers and deeds, financial accounts, bonds, receipts, Government and political material, legal briefs and court opinions, literary material including epitaphs, poems, prayers and travel accounts, military material, wills, marriage settlements, family account books and diaries. Significant correspondents include George III, George IV, William IV and Victoria, as well as many members of the Royal family. Political correspondents include 1st Earl of Chatham, W.E. Gladstone, George Grenville, Lord Palmerston, Sir Robert Peel, Spencer Perceval, William Pitt, the Duke of Wellington, and John Wilkes. Important note: although this material includes the years 1769-1865 there is only one letter which refers slightly to the American Revolutionary War and no letters or other material deal with the American Civil War.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: (1756-1846)
Call number: mssTD
Creator: Townshend (Family: Frognal, Kent, England)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from H.S. Mott; 14 letters addressed to George, 1st Marquis Townshend, 1768-1770, June 1969.; Transferred from the Huntington Art Gallery; 1 letter by George, 1st Marquis Townshend, March 1985 [in Art Gallery since 1984].; Purchased via Maggs from Christie's sale (Lot 188): Townshend family papers, June 1999.; Purchased via Maggs from Christie's sale (Lot 57): Selwyn Addenda, June 2000.; Purchased from Maggs: Whitchurch Addenda, September 2000.
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Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Adelaide, (1792-1849.); Anglesey, Charlotte Paget, (1781-1853.); Anglesey, Henry William Paget, (1768-1854.); Biddulph, Thomas Myddelton, (1809-1878.); Bowlby, Mary Powys, (-1813.); Chatham, William Pitt, (1708-1778.); Conyngham, Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, (1797-1869.); Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, (1738-1805.); Cust, Peregrine Francis, (1791-1873.); Cust, Sophia Mary, (-1852.); Dynevor, Frances Rice, (1772-1854.); Dynevor, George Talbot Rice, (1765-1852.); Ely, Jane Loftus, (1821-1890.); Eugénie, (1829-1920.); George (1738-1820.); George (1762-1830.); Gladstone, W. E. (1809-1898.); Greville, Henry William, (1801-1872.); Leitrim, Elizabeth Clements, (-1817.); Leitrim, Robert Clements, (1732-1804.); Louis Napoléon, (1856-1879.); Marsham-Townshend, Robert. (1791-1863.); Midleton, Charles Brodrick, (1808-1873.)
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