Manuscript, in multiple hands, of copies of several hundred letters from Conway to other military officials, including Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick and John Manners, Marquis of Granby, during his service as deputy to Granby, Commander of the British ...
Description:
Henry Seymour Conway (1719-1795) was an army general and politician. He fought in the War of the Austrian Succession; served in Ireland during the Jacobite Rebellion, and in Germany during the Seven Years' War. He was successively promoted to major ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Frederick, Lord, 1729-1803., Cockburn, James, Sir, 1723-1801., Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795., De Cosne, Ruvigny., Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792., Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770., and Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807.
Subject (Topic):
Military administration, Military camps, Military discipline, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Militia, and Politics and government
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of copies of several hundred letters from Conway to other military officials, including Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick and John Manners, Marquis of Granby, during his service as deputy to Granby, Commander of the British ...
Description:
Henry Seymour Conway (1719-1795) was an army general and politician. He fought in the War of the Austrian Succession; served in Ireland during the Jacobite Rebellion, and in Germany during the Seven Years' War. He was successively promoted to major ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Frederick, Lord, 1729-1803., Cockburn, James, Sir, 1723-1801., Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795., De Cosne, Ruvigny., Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792., Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770., and Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807.
Subject (Topic):
Military administration, Military camps, Military discipline, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Militia, and Politics and government
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of copies of several hundred letters from Conway to other military officials, including Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick and John Manners, Marquis of Granby, during his service as deputy to Granby, Commander of the British ...
Description:
Henry Seymour Conway (1719-1795) was an army general and politician. He fought in the War of the Austrian Succession; served in Ireland during the Jacobite Rebellion, and in Germany during the Seven Years' War. He was successively promoted to major ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Frederick, Lord, 1729-1803., Cockburn, James, Sir, 1723-1801., Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795., De Cosne, Ruvigny., Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792., Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770., and Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807.
Subject (Topic):
Military administration, Military camps, Military discipline, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Militia, and Politics and government
Manuscript, in several hands, containing two letters written by Elizabeth Montagu. The first letter, signed by Montagu and addressed "To Doctor Monsey," admonishes the recipient's attachment to "Miss B," warning him, "Do not sadden your retirement & ...
Description:
Binding: cloth covered boards; blue morocco spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century.
Subject (Name):
Montagu,--Mrs.--(Elizabeth),--1720-1800. and Percy, Thomas,--1729-1811.
An autograph letter signed from an itinerant actress Eleonora Garrell in a travelling theatre troupe, dated 13 December 1764 from the White Lion Inn in Halifax. An affectionate, teasing letter in which the writer reports on her employment with the "Sc...
Description:
Surname may be Garrell?
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Farrell, Eleonora. and Whitley, James Augustus, ca. 1724-1781.
Two AL, one signed, possibly by Victor-Thérèse Charpentier, comte d'Ennery, the governor general of Martinique from 1763 to 1771, to the Chevalier de Monteil, commander of French naval forces in the Caribbean. The letters concern personal and polit...
Description:
Purchased from William Reese Company on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1994.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort-de-France (Martinique) and Martinique--Politics and government--18th century.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a letter from Mason to Horace Walpole, in which Mason writes that he has read Walpole's tragedic play, The Mysterious Mother, several times and has provided a sketch of alterations he believes necessary to improve the ...
Description:
William Mason (1724-1797) was a poet, editor, and gardener. In 1747, his poem "Musaeus, a Monody on the Death of Mr. Pope" was published to acclaim and quickly went through several editions. In 1775, he published the Poems of Mr Gray, a friend who w...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Mason, William, 1725-1797. and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
English drama (Tragedy), Family, Incest, Religion, and Theater
Viceroy Bucareli, having read Father Palóu's diary which suggested the possibilities of more missions in the San Francisco area, is inspired to establish six new missions. The letters inform Fray Junípero Serra, president of the California missions,...
Subject (Geographic):
California--History--To 1846
Subject (Name):
Anza, Juan Bautista de, 1735-1788, New Spain Viceroy (1771-1779 : Bucareli y Ursúa), Palóu, Francisco, 1723-1789, Rivera y Moncada, Fernando de, and Serra, Junípero, 1713-1784
Album containing the correspondence of Benjamin Strutt of Colchester and John Pattison Jr. of Witham. The letters are highly literary in nature, and contain many references to, playful imitations of, and comments on MacPherson's <title>Ossian</title>,...
Description:
Available on microfilm.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796, Pattison, John Jr., 1758-1782., Strutt, Benjamin, 1754-1827., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Classical studies, English literature, English poetry, Friendship, Sentimentalism in literature, Students, Books and reading, and Intellectual life
Letter from Viceroy Bucareli y Ursúa to Father Rafael Bergér naming Father Pablo Font, Father Juan Riobo, and Father Matias Noriega as chaplains for the impending voyage of exploration along the California coast, and discussing the finances availabl...
Description:
GIft of Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Discovery and exploration--Spanish, Pacific Coast--Discovery and exploration, and Spain--Exploring expeditions
Subject (Name):
Bergér, Rafael, Font, Pablo, New Spain. Viceroy (1771-1779 : Bucareli y Ursúa), Noriega, Mathias, and Riobo, Juan
Holograph manuscript containing copies of letters sent by Codrington to his agents in Antigua and Barbuda from 1779 to 1782 concerning the management of his estates and accounts, the employment of servants and slaves, the sugar trade, and the effects ...
Description:
Binding: original vellum inscribed "Letter Book 1779"; contemporary metal clasp, largely intact.
Subject (Geographic):
Antigua and Barbuda--History
Subject (Topic):
Administration of estates, Plantation life--Caribbean Area, and Sugar trade--Antigua
ALS from W.J. Chute to his friend Grimston, relating the news he had heard about his friend's travels through Europe with their friend C. Collyer and expressing the hopes that they might meet up in the near future and his eagerness to leave Angers; he...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Angers (France)
Subject (Name):
Chute, William, 1757-1824., Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., and Palliser, Hugh, Sir, 1723-1796.
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of 51 letters from Delany to her friend, Mary (Hamilton) Dickenson; several of them have been annotated by Dickenson. Some of the letters are in Delany's hand; others are in the hand of her niece Georgina Mary Anne Port...
Description:
Mary Delany (1700-1788), courtier and artist, married Alexander Pendarves (1660-1725) in 1718. After his death in 1725, she lived in London, going to court functions, the opera, and the theater. She made many important friendships during this time,...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Delany, Mrs. 1700-1788. (Mary),, Delany, Mrs. 1700-1788 (Mary),, and Dickenson, Mary Hamilton, 1756-1816.
Subject (Topic):
Letters, Women authors, Court and courtiers, and Social life and customs