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Title

Correspondence

Shelfmark

MS. Eng. d. 3855

Summary

Comprises:

(fols. ii-xiii) an index of contents

letters to George Simon Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt, from:

(fols. 1-2) William Charles Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle, May 1794

(fols. 12-14) unidentified concerning the disposal of portraits of Sir Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth Raleigh, Lady Raleigh, n.d.

(fols. 15-16) William Norris, Jan. 1785

(fols. 19-26) Thomas James Mathias, Dec. 1795, Apr.-May 1803, May 1804

(fols. 28-31) Humphry Repton, Aug.-Oct. 1799

(fols. 32-3, 35-6) [Mary?] Cholmondeley, n.d.

(fols. 37-8) Mary Berry, n.d.

(fols. 39-48) Mary Hartley, Dec. 1797-Mar. 1800, n.d.

(fols. 49-57) Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, July 1791, Apr.-Oct. 1797, May 1802, n.d.

(fol. 74) Scrope Berdmore, Nov. 1796

(fols. 75-6) John Brand, Feb. 1798

(fols. 77-80) [H?] Palgrave, n.d.

(fols. 81-2) V. Keefe, Aug. 1798

(fols. 83-4) Isabella Mattocks, n.d.

(fols. 85-90) Frances Abington, Nov. 1798, n.d.

(fols. 91-2) Robert William Elliston, July 1799, Feb. 1803, Oct. 1806, n.d.

(fols. 121-4) M. Preston, n.d.

(fols. 154-7) Benjamin West, Oct.-Nov. 1802

(fols. 158-69) E. Hamilton, Dec. 1799-Sept. 1800, n.d.

(fols. 176-7) [ Sir George Howland Beaumont?], Apr. 1801

(fols. 193-7) Michael Marlow, Apr. 1801-Jan. 1802

(fols. 200-2) Alleyne Fitzherbert, Baron St Helens, Jan. 1806, n.d.

(fols. 203-4) J. Stuart, Sept. 1807

(fols. 205-8) H. Faquier, Apr. 1802

(fols. 211-15) unidentified concerning a memorial for William Mason by Dr Darwin, n.d.

(fols. 216-17) unidentified, n.d.

(fol. 218) John Corke, n.d.

letters to Elizabeth Harcourt, Countess Harcourt, from:

(fols. 17-18) Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, June 1791, n.d.

(fols. 34-5) George Cholmondeley, Sept. 1818

(fol. 58) Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, Mar. 1800

(fol. 59) Mrs St George, Jan. 1796

(fols. 60-2) Countess de Starnor, Mar. 1801, Aug. 1806

(fols. 65-6) Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham, Sept. 1791

(fols. 67-8) Eleanor Butler, n.d.

(fols. 67-8) Sarah Ponsonby, n.d.

(fols. 69-70) Arabella Heneage, n.d.

(fols. 72-3) Sir John Murray, Feb. 1796

(fol. 99) Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield, [c. Feb. 1789]

(fol. 100) M. Nugent Buckingham, Oct. 1798

(fols. 101-2) Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Countess of Sutherland, Sept. 1791

(fol. 103) Richard Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington, Apr. 1792

(fol. 104) Lucy Waite, n.d.

(fols. 105-7) Catherine Maria Fanshawe, n.d.

(fols. 108-20, 125-30) M. Preston, n.d.

(fols. 131-3) John Coker, July 1798

(fol. 134) C. Blackstone, n.d.

(fol. 135) Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, Aug. 1791

(fols. 136-7) William Mason, Oct. 1790, July 1791

(fols. 138-45) Ann Kennicott, n.d.

(fols. 146-7) Frances Douglas, Lady Douglas, Nov. 1800

(fols. 170-1) E. Hamilton, n.d.

(fols. 172-5) Frances Fritton, June-Aug. 1801

(fols. 178-81) Jane West, July 1801, n.d.

(fols. 182-3) Sir George Yonge, Feb. 1801

(fol. 184) A. Howe, n.d.

(fol. 185-92) Madame de Mortemart, Oct. 1801-May 1803, July 1806

(fols. 198-9) Charles Compton, 9th Earl of Northampton, Nov. 1805

(fols. 209-10) unidentified, n.d.

(fols. 148-53) correspondence of Edward Venables-Vernon, Archbishop of York, with Robert Whitehead, Jan. 1808

and

(fols. 3-4) copy of a letter of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, concerning George, Prince of Wales's interest in botany, Sept. 1757

(fols. 5-6) extract from a letter of a gentleman in Paris to a friend in London concerning the discovery of a Hebrew stone predicting future events, n.d.

(fols. 7-8) copy of a letter from a sailor on boad The Stag to an officer, n.d.

(fols. 9-10) extract from a letter describing life in India, n.d.

(fol. 11) letter from M. Wenn ordering a scarlet cardinal, n.d.

(fols. 63-4) memorandum by Elizabeth Harcourt, Countess Harcourt, on George I, n.d.

(fol. 71) letter from C. Talbot to 'a little girl 3 days old', n.d.