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Thomas Gage papers 1754-1807 1759-1775 Gage, Thomas, papers

Title: Thomas Gage papers 1754-1807 1759-1775 Gage, Thomas, papers

The Thomas Gage papers consist of the military and governmental correspondence and headquarter papers of General Thomas Gage, officer in the British Army in America (1754-1763) and commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America between 1763 and 1775. The papers include incoming correspondence and retained copies of letters written by Gage, together with a large quantity of documents related to military administration and manuscript maps of North America. The collection is particularly strong in documenting British administration of North America after the French and Indian War, interactions with Native Americans, and the years preceding the American Revolution. The series is described in a separate finding aid. Thomas Gage warrants

ArchivalResource: 70 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-341gag?rgn=main;view=text View

Paxton, Charles, d. 1788. Letters, 1759-1766.

Title: Letters, 1759-1766.

A small collection of letters from Charles Paxton to Lord Charles Townshend, regarding the position of Surveyor of Customs in Boston, and sending fowl and other items to Townshend. Also, a few letters with John Huske.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21984903 View

Garrick, David, 1717-1779. To the right honourable Charles Townshend in behalf of Captain Schomberg [manuscript], [1766].

Title: To the right honourable Charles Townshend in behalf of Captain Schomberg [manuscript], [1766].

Autograph poem by David Garrick. On behalf of Captain Henry Schomberg, according to Miss Knapp (Letter of August 23, 1974).

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233974253 View

Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785. George Sackville Germain papers, 1683-1785.

Title: George Sackville Germain papers, 1683-1785.

The Lord George Sackville Germain papers contain the political and military correspondence of Germain, British military officer and secretary of state for North America during the American Revolution. In addition to official letters and reports, the collection comprises copies of secret military dispatches, reports and extracts detailing the activities of the commanders and colonial governors of North America, and a copybook of letters between American diplomat Benjamin Franklin, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Pownall, and Boston reverend Samuel Cooper.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/759179078 View

Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767. Observations on the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, [ca. 1750].

Title: Observations on the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, [ca. 1750].

Autograph manuscript, lightly corrected, of observations on the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748). Excerpts from the treaty itself are written in the right column, and observations thereto are written in the left column, with frequent references to and quotes from other treaties, including Treaties of Madrid, 1715 and 1750.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (127 p.) ; 33 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702177751 View

Autograph File, T, 1580-1975.

Title: Autograph File, T, 1580-1975.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01443/catalog View

English Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, 1362-1945

Title: English Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection 1362-1945

An artificial collection of correspondence, financial, legal, and government documents, political memoirs, military records, literary manuscripts, and autographs relating to Great Britain, 1362-1945. An anonymous essay about Charlotte Corday, memoirs attributed to George Grenville, and writings by George Grote and Sir Henry Maine are included.

ArchivalResource: 8.25 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0753 View

Shipman, Thomas. Thomas Shipman correspondence, 1769.

Title: Thomas Shipman correspondence, 1769.

ALS (1769 March 6) written by Shipman to Henry Remson in New York regarding his order and mentioning the possibility that Parliament would repeal taxes on paper and glass [Townshend Acts].

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980452 View

English miscellaneous manuscripts collection, 1362-1945 (inclusive).

Title: English miscellaneous manuscripts collection, 1362-1945 (inclusive).

An artificial collection of correspondence, financial, legal, and government documents, political memoirs, military records, literary manuscripts, and autographs relating to Great Britain, 1362-1945. An anonymous essay about Charlotte Corday, memoirs attributed to George Grenville, and writings by George Grote and Sir Henry Maine are included.

ArchivalResource: 8.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702165746 View

Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778. Autograph letter signed : [London], to Charles Townshend, 1761 Sept. 29.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [London], to Charles Townshend, 1761 Sept. 29.

Concerning the advisability of allowing General Lally to return to France on parole.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270623045 View

Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767. Memoranda book of the Privy Council, 1765 July 19 to December 17.

Title: Memoranda book of the Privy Council, 1765 July 19 to December 17.

The unbound memoranda book concerns fiscal matters, probably of the Privy Council, for whom Townshend was Paymaster General. The daily entries include notices concerning the American colonies, especially the Stamp Act.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50061546 View

Palgrave family papers 1782-1838 Palgrave family papers

Title: Palgrave family papers 1782-1838 Palgrave family papers

The Palgrave family papers are made up of incoming letters to and drafts of letters by William Palgrave of Coltishall, England, and his sons William and Robert. The letters concern politics, family news, Robert Palgrave's work as registrar of the admiralty court at Gibraltar, and other subjects. Contributors include Charles Townshend; Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester; and Thomas Denham.

ArchivalResource: 78 items

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-4964pal?rgn=main;view=text View

Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

Title: Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 31 volumes (7.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01782/catalog View

Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767. Papers of Charles Townshend, 1740-1767.

Title: Papers of Charles Townshend, 1740-1767.

ArchivalResource: 3 microfilm reels

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71068002 View

Smith, Sydney, 1771-1845,. Additional maps, prints, clippings [manuscript] 1761-1940.

Title: Additional maps, prints, clippings [manuscript] 1761-1940.

Letters of Sydney Smith, Frances Trollope, Peter Cooper, H. L. Mencken, and others. British legal documents bearing signatures of Lord North and Charles Townshend.

ArchivalResource: 65 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647966718 View

George Sackville Germain papers 1683-1785 Germain, George Sackville papers

Title: George Sackville Germain papers 1683-1785 Germain, George Sackville papers

The Lord George Sackville Germain papers contain the political and military correspondence of Germain, British military officer and secretary of state for North America during the American Revolution. In addition to official letters and reports, the collection comprises copies of secret military dispatches, reports and extracts detailing the activities of the commanders and colonial governors of North America, and a copybook of letters between American diplomat Benjamin Franklin, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Pownall, and Boston reverend Samuel Cooper.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-30ger?rgn=main;view=text View

Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806,. Autograph letter signed from Earl George Macartney, London, to the Honorable Edmond Malone, London [manuscript], 1799 June 2.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Earl George Macartney, London, to the Honorable Edmond Malone, London [manuscript], 1799 June 2.

Macartney tells Malone to turn to Burke's speech in which he delineates the characters of My Lord Chatham, W. Grenville and Charles Townshend. He thinks that Burke must have just come from reading Dryden's essay on Dramatic poetry. There is a note at the bottom of the letter in another hand (possibly Malone's?) that describes the context of the letter to Malone.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 35 x 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/435414823 View

Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767. Charles Townshend papers 1660-1804, bulk 1676-1748.

Title: Charles Townshend papers 1660-1804, bulk 1676-1748.

The Townshend papers included the private and public records of Charles Townshend who served in various positions in the government of Great Britain including as Secretary of War during the Seven Years War and as Chancellor of the Exchequer where he authored the Townshend Acts to tax the American colonies.

ArchivalResource: 9.5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/248930767 View

Dowdeswell, William, 1721-1775. William Dowdeswell papers, 1765-1774.

Title: William Dowdeswell papers, 1765-1774.

The William Dowdeswell papers contain political correspondence of William Dowdeswell, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Charles Watson-Wentworth Rockingham and Member of Parliament. In these letters Dowdeswell analyzes and critiques some of the most important issues of the day, such as domestic and colonial taxation, relations with America and Ireland, support for the East India Company, and the opposition's role in the Middlesex election controversy.

ArchivalResource: 53 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/740676960 View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource:

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01543/catalog View

Charles Townshend papers 1660-1804 1748-1767 Townshend, Charles papers

Title: Charles Townshend papers 1660-1804 1748-1767 Townshend, Charles papers

The Townshend papers included the private and public records of Charles Townshend who served in various positions in the government of Great Britain including as Secretary of War during the Seven Years War and as Chancellor of the Exchequer where he authored the Townshend Acts to tax the American colonies.

ArchivalResource: 9.5 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-1773tow?rgn=main;view=text View

Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney papers 1665-1828 1780-1788 Sydney, Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount papers

Title: Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney papers 1665-1828 1780-1788 Sydney, Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount papers

The Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney papers contain the official letters of Lord Sydney, spanning his entire political career, as well as material related to his grandfather, Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (1664-1738); his father, the Honorable Thomas Townshend (1701-1780); and his son, John Thomas Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney (1764-1831). Of note is material related to the Shelburne ministry and the Paris peace negotiations at the end of the American Revolutionary War (1782-1783).

ArchivalResource: 4.25 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-19syd?rgn=main;view=text View

Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney papers, 1665-1828.

Title: Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney papers, 1665-1828.

The Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney papers contain the official letters of Lord Sydney, spanning his entire political career, as well as material related to his grandfather, Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (1664-1738); his father, the Honorable Thomas Townshend (1701-1780); and his son, John Thomas Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney (1764-1831). Of note is material related to the Shelburne ministry and the Paris peace negotiations at the end of the American Revolutionary War (1782-1783).

ArchivalResource: 4.25 linear feet.

https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-wcl-M-19syd View

William Dowdeswell papers 1765-1774 Dowdeswell, William papers

Title: William Dowdeswell papers 1765-1774 Dowdeswell, William papers

The William Dowdeswell papers contain political correspondence of William Dowdeswell, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Charles Watson-Wentworth Rockingham and Member of Parliament. In these letters Dowdeswell analyzes and critiques some of the most important issues of the day, such as domestic and colonial taxation, relations with America and Ireland, support for the East India Company, and the opposition's role in the Middlesex election controversy.

ArchivalResource: 53 items

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-305dow?rgn=main;view=text View

Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767. The charge of the garrison of Minorca accounts, circa 1763.

Title: The charge of the garrison of Minorca accounts, circa 1763.

Contains the expenditures for British troops at Minorca.

ArchivalResource: 2 p ; 47 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79446894 View

Papers of Wyndham Damer Clark (1884-1961), 1757-1919, 1757-1919

Title: Papers of Wyndham Damer Clark (1884-1961), 1757-1919 1757-1919

ArchivalResource: 158 shelfmarks

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