Correspondence and papers

Title

Correspondence and papers

Shelfmark

MS. Eng. d. 3864

Summary

Comprises:

(fols. ii-xv) an index of contents

(fols. 1-2) letter from Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, to James Moore, May 1724

letters from Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, to:

(fols. 6-7) unidentified concerning the purchase of an estate at Ducklington, Oct. 1753

(fols. 8-9) unidentified concerning the purchasing of India bonds and the Oxfordshire parliamentary election, Dec. 1753

(fols. 13-14, 31-40) William Bowly, agent for the Harcourt estates, May 1773-Dec. 1776

letters to Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, from:

(fols. 4-5) Samuel Rock, Feb. 1731

(fols. 10-12) Robert Weston, June-July 1762

(fols. 17-20, 25-6) ? Du Flos, June-Sept. 1770

(fols. 23-4) ? De la Pierre, n.d.

(fol. 28) ? de Teray, Apr. 1771

(fol. 41) William Bowly, agent for the Harcourt estates, Dec. 1766

letters from Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York, to:

(fol. 97) Bishop of Lincoln, n.d.

(fols. 98-9) William Paley, May 1804

(fols. 100-3, 106-7) [his son George Granville Venables-Vernon?], n.d.

(fols. 104-5) Bishop of Bangor, n.d.

(fols. 108-9) the Recorder of York, n.d.

(fols. 123-4) the clery of the diocese of York concerning the York training school, Oct. 1844

(fols. 136-7) the clergy of the deanery Retford, May 1841

(fol. 148) William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, concerning his appointment to the archbishopric of York, Nov. 1807

letters to Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York, from:

(fols. 42-3) William Pitt, appointing him to the bishopric of Carlisle, June 1791

(fols. 44-5) Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, Mar. 1794

(fols. 46-7) George Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower, Feb. 1795

(fols. 48-95) Joseph Dacre Carlyle, Nov. 1799-Oct. 1801, n.d.

(fol. 96) Cyril Jackson, n.d.

(fols. 138-41) William Paley, May 1804, n.d.

(fols. 142-5) Isaac Milner, Feb. 1804, Aug. 1811

(fols. 146-50) William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, appointing him to the archbishopric of York, Nov. 1807

(fols. 151-2) William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, Jan. 1810

(fols. 153-4) John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Sept. 1822

(fols. 155-6) Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Lady Holland, Sept. 1812

(fols. 157-8) Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth, Sept. [1812]

(fols. 159-60) Spencer Perceval, Apr. 1812

(fols. 161-8) Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Aug. 1813, Dec. 1817, May 1820

(fols. 169-70) a 'Vernon in Normandy', Oct. 1814

(fols. 179-80) Prince Adolphus Frederick, 1st Duke of Cambridge, Sept. 1816

(fols. 182-3) Sydney Smith, Aug. 1829

(fols. 196-7) Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Aug. 1817

(fols. 198-9) William Wilberforce, Apr. 1820

(fols. 200-1) Princess Sophia Matilda, Sept. 1821

(fols. 202-3) Benjamin Bloomfield, July 1821

letters to William Vernon Harcourt from:

(fols. 110-22, 125-33) his father Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York, May 1841, mainly n.d.

(fols. 171-6) Thomas Gaisford, Mar. 1815, Jan. 1847, n.d.

(fols. 181, 184-7) Sydney Smith, Aug. 1816, n.d.

(fols. 188-9) [ Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle], n.d.

(fol. 190) George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle, Oct. 1827

(fols. 191-5) George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle, Oct. 1833, n.d.

(fols. 204-9) [J.W.?] Bloomfield, Jan. 1824, Aug. 1829, Dec. 1832

(fols. 210-15) Thomas Philip Robinson, 3rd Baron Grantham, Jan. 1825, n.d.

(fol. 216) Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey, May 1825

(fols. 219-23) Lord Granville Somerset, Sept. [1826?], Sept. 1841

(fols. 224-5) F. Leveson-Gower, 1817, July 1827

(fols. 227-8) [J.?] Robinson, Jan. 1827

(fols. 229-31) Henry Gally Knight, Apr.-May 1827

(fols. 232-47) Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam, Nov. 1827, Nov. 1831-Jan. 1832, Apr. 1836, Dec. 1837

(fol. 248) Robert Stevenson, Dec. 1831

(fols. 249-50) unidentified, May 1832

(fol. 253) Marc Isambard Brunel, July 1832

(fols. 254-7) George Ticknor, Oct. 1835, Sept. 1839

(fols. 258-65) Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, [Aug. 1836], n.d.

(fols. 266-7) Henry Howard, Feb. 1827

(fols. 268-9) George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, Apr. 1836

(fols. 270-5) Harriet Georgiana Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, n.d.

(fols. 276-87) Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton, Sept.-Oct. 1836, Aug. 1838, Oct. 1839, Sept. 1846

(fols. 288-9) Sir Robert Peel, June 1843, with (fols. 290-1) a copy of Peel's letter to ? Lincoln, July 1843

(fols. 292-306) William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Burlington, Sept. 1837, Sept. 1839, Jan. 1840, Jan. 1844, Mar. 1845, Mar. 1850

(fols. 306-7) Charlotte Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, n.d.

(fols. 311-12) Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby, Apr. 1845

(fols. 313-18) Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Oct. 1861, n.d.

(fols. 324-5) Henry Hallam, n.d.

(fols. 326-9) Charles Shore, 2nd Baron Teignmouth, Aug. 1855, Dec. 1859

(fols. 330-1) James Parke, Baron Wensleydale, n.d.

(fols. 332-5) George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, July 1867, n.d.

(fols. 340-1) Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, Feb. 1862

letters to Matilda Vernon Harcourt from:

(fols. 308-10) Lady Louisa Jenkinson, May 1838

(fols. 319-20) Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, n.d.

(fols. 321-3) Princess Amelia of Saxe-Weimar, Dec. 1849

(fols. 336-7) George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Apr. 1873

(fols. 338-9) [ Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Argyll], n.d.

(fols. 342-3) Lord Percy, n.d.

and

(fol. 3) proposals for putting Harcourt House, Cavendish Square, London, into mourning upon the death of Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, 1725

(fols. 15-16) plan, in French, for a commerical project in England, [1769]

(fols. 21-2) account of cattle bought and sold at Nuneham, 1771-6

(fol. 27) printed advertisement for the Kennett-Dover carrier, 1772

(fols. 29-30) printed psalm by Martha Venables-Vernon, n.d.

(fols. 177-8) verse by [Joseph Dacre?] Carlyle, n.d.

(fols. 217) letter from Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey to James Atkinson concerning his sculpting of a bust of William Vernon Harcourt for the Yorkshire Museum, 1831

(fols. 218) resolution by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society for the creation of a memorial bust or portrait of William Vernon Harcourt, Sept. 1831

(fols. 251-2) letter from Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, to William Buckland, May 1832

(fol. 287) resolution by the British Association for the Advancement of Science of Science for a visit to Manchester, Aug. 1836

Date

1724-1873, n.d.

Language

English

Physical extent

345 Leaves