Manuscripts

Minutes of the Cabinet: Recommending to the King the recognition of the title "The Thirteen United States"

Description: In Thomas Townshend's handwriting.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1782 September 19
Call number: HM 25758
Creator: Sydney, Thomas Townshend (1733-1800)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: purchased from Charles J. Sawyer, Ltd., 1916-1918.; purchased from Anderson Galleries, 1917-1919.; purchased from Maggs Bros., date unknown.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.; RESTRICTED: Box 2 (contains volume 2 and volume 3): Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.; RESTRICTED: Oversize folder 1 (contains mssHM 25755): Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.

Minutes of the Cabinet: Recommending that, having in view the recovery of W. Florida, Mr. Oswald be instructed to intimate to the commissioners of the United States that they would be inclined to listen to the proposal of the attachment of the Spanish possessions in preference to the dominions of France

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In Thomas Townshend's handwriting.

HM 25760

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Minutes of the Cabinet: Rough draft of the terms of the ultimatum of Great Britain

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In Thomas Townshend's handwriting.

HM 25762

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Minutes of the Cabinet: Recommending to the King concession of independence

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Letters and documents relating to British and American relations. Includes autograph letters to Townshend from William Pitt, the 1st Earl of Chatham, from 1774 to 1776, and George III, from 1782 to 1784; Henry McCulloh's "Several thoughts. on the Stamp duty," 1765, and Silas Deane's "Observations and proposals relating to a Navigable Canal from Lake Champlain to the St. Lawrence," from 1785 to 1787. "A Provisional Act for Settling Troubles in America," 1776 and "Memorandum of a Declaration to Dr. Addington relating to American colonies," 1776, by William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham; the minutes of a cabinet formed in 1782 for the purpose of negotiating peace with the United States and letters from George III to Townshend, 1782 to 1783, are bound in two volumes. The volumes also contain the original portrait of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, by William Hoare, and Thomas Townshend's copies of "An Act to Enable His Majesty to conclude a Peace with the United States of America" (London : Printed at Charles Eyere and William Straham, 1782) and "Provisional articles signed at Paris, the 30th of November, 1782 by the Commissioner of His Britannic Majesty, and the Commissioners of the United States of America" (London : Printed by T. Harrison and S. Brooke, in Warwick-Lane, 1783).

HM 25757

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Memorandum of Minutes of the Cabinet: Recommending to the King that, if the commissioners of the United States declare themselves satisfied on their part, he should forthwith acknowledge the independence of the thirteen states absolutely and irrevocably, and withdraw all the troops from the thirteen states and agree to an immediate cessation of the hostilities on sea and land

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HM 25763

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