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Northbrook, Thomas George Baring, Earl of, 1826-1904. Papers, 1870-1904.

Title: Papers, 1870-1904.

Includes correspondence relating to Baring's direction of the Admiralty Office, 1880-1885, largely concerning personnel and administrative organization. Among the writers are William Gladstone; Stephen Edward Spring-Rice; William Codrington; Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset; and Thomas Brassey. Letters relating to British politics around 1900 include several from Sir Edward Grey giving opinions of leading politicians and one from Sayaji Rao Gaekwar III, Maharaja of Baroda. There are also extracts from letters, 1879-1880, of Sir Neville Bowles Chamberlain, Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army, criticizing British policies that led to the Second Afghan War and commenting on finances in India. There is also correspondence relating to the Royal Geographical Society, 1879-1880.

ArchivalResource: 29 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19210872 View

Codrington, William, Sir. Letterbook, 1779-1782.

Title: Letterbook, 1779-1782.

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 of war on contact with the West Indies.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (140 p.) ; 19.5 x 16 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702176411 View