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Title

Correspondence, mainly in French

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MS. Eng. d. 3834

Summary

Comprises:

(fols. 1-200 passim) occasional biographical notes by Elizabeth Harcourt, Countess Harcourt

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

(fols. 46-7) Countess de Haussonville, Aug.-Nov. 1768

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

(fols. 1-35) Chevalier de Allonville, Nov. 1772-June 1779, Feb. 1784-Jan. 1792, n.d.

(fols. 36-43) Count Armand D'Allonville, Oct. 1792

(fols. 88-101) Count Sarsfield, Oct. 1767, Aug. 1781-Dec. 1782, June 1786, Feb.-Apr. 1788

(fols. 102-3) Count de Crenolle, 1789

(fols. 104-9) Count de Maulevrier, Feb.-Sept. 1785, Apr. 1791

(fols. 110-17) Duke of Nivernois, Aug. 1775, June-July 1776, Apr. 1778

(fols. 118-19) Duke of Rouchefoucauld, Mar. 1778

(fols. 120-1) ? Gerardin, July 1778

(fols. 122-3) Mr de Rochefort, Apr. 1769

(fols. 124-5) Marchioness d'Hericy, Mar. 1768

(fols. 126-7) Emmanuel-Marie-Louis, Marquess de Noailles, Sept. 1777

(fols. 135-6) Bishop of Leon, Oct. 1793

(fols. 156-7) Marquess de Tiilly, n.d.

(fols. 166-7) [Marchioness de Tourville?], n.d.

(fols. 185-7) William Shaw Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart, in French with apparent fictious signatures, Mar. 1796, Apr. 1799

letters to Elizabeth Harcourt, Countess Harcourt from:

(fols. 44-5, 48-68) Countess d'Haussonville, June-Nov. 1768, 1770, July 1788, Apr.-July 1789, Oct. 1792, Jan.-Feb. 1793, n.d.

(fols. 69) Marquess d'Haussonville, Feb. 1771

(fols. 70-86) Marquess d'Haussonville [son\successor of 1771 Marquess?], Sept. 1793-Nov. 1795, Apr. 1805, May 1814

(fol. 128) [Charlotte-Françoise] D'Hallencourt de Noailles, Marchioness de Noailles, 1777

(fols. 129-31) Pasquale Paoli, Feb. 1771, Feb. 1773

(fol. 132) Countess de Roncherolles, June 1790

(fol. 133) Duke D'Havré en Croy, May 1789

(fol. 134) Duchess of Serent, n.d.

(fols. 137-40) Count de Pollon, minister plenipotentiary from the King of Sardinia, May-Aug. 1790

(fols. 141) letter apparently from Monsieurs 'du Chastelet, D'Ermenonville and de Jumilliac' and 'La colonie Francaise' at Oxford, July 1784

(fols. 142-4) Viscount du Chastelet, Jan. 1791, 1792

(fols. 145-7) Amélie de Boufflers de Gontaut, Duchess of Biron, Oct. 1790, June 1791

(fols. 148-9) Marquis de Pezay, Oct. 1773

(fol. 153) Anne-César, Marquess de la Luzerne, French ambassador to Great Britain, Mar. 1789

(fols. 154-5) Sister Masson of Middlesex Hospital, Aug. 1793

(fols. 156-7) Marquess de Tiilly, n.d.

(fols. 161-2) Guglielmo Closse, in Italian, Aug. 1819

(fols. 168-9) unidentified, asking her to pass a letter to Queen Charlotte, concerning the dauphin of France, June 1794

letters to Edward William Harcourt from:

(fols. 194-7) ? de Bellot, Apr.-May 1862

and

(fol. 150) extract of a letter from Voltaire to 'one of the royal family', n.d.

(fols. 151-2) copy of a letter from Voltaire to Mr Paulet, n.d.

(fol. 158) letter from ? Carter to Madame Du [Couedic?], n.d.

(fols. 159-60) copy of a letter from ? d'Allion to Voltaire and ? Haller, n.d.

(fol. 163) copy of a letter from Marie Antoinette concerning her imprisonment, [1793]

(fols. 164-5) 'an additional chapter to a French brochure intitled Voyages dans ma Chambre' in the hand of Elizabeth Harcourt, Countess Harcourt, n.d.

(fols. 170-1) copy of a letter from a French royalist relating to the arrest of [Pancemont?], Oct. 1806

(fols. 172-3) copies of letters from the Chevalier d'Eon, Feb. 1779

(fol. 174) letter, in English, to George III from an unidentified French emigré, n.d.

(fol. 175) copy of a letter from Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon, Prince of Condé and Duke of Bourbon, concerning the murder of his son the Duke d'Enghien, Apr. 1804

(fols. 176-7) copy of a letter from the Queen of Naples to her ambassador in London concerning Nelson's victory at the battle of the Nile, [c. Aug. 1798]

(fols. 178-9) copy of a letter from the Queen of Naples to the Countess Don Spenere concerning Nelson's victory at the battle of the Nile, Aug. 1798

(fols. 180-3) copies of letters from Comte d'Artois (later Charles X of France) to Marcehal de Broglie, Jan. 1794

(fols. 184) prayer of Madame Elizabeth de ? during her captivity, n.d.

(fols. 188-9) letter from unidentified to unidentified, Nov. 1846

(fols. 190-1) letter from ? de Gourcy to unidentified, Apr. 1847

(fols. 192-3) letter from unidentified to ? Harcourt, n.d.