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Wolfe, James, 1727-1759. Collection of letters, autographs, and drawings related to James Wolfe, 1740-1859. , (bulk )

Title: Collection of letters, autographs, and drawings related to James Wolfe, 1740-1859. , (bulk )

Letters, manuscripts, autographs, drawings, and prints related to James Wolfe, collected for their autograph value. Most of the letters are addressed to Wolfe's mother and concern's his effects and papers. The correspondents include Thomas Bell, Wolfe's aide-de-camp; Welbore Ellis, the 1st Baron of Mednip; Philip Hardel, a London goldsmith; Thomas Fisher, an executor of Wolfe's estate; William Pitt, the Elder, , and Samuel Francis Swinden, Wolfe's tutor, George Warde and Charles Warde. Also included are letters from Mrs. Wolfe to Wolfe's friend William Weston (1740, Dec. 16); Lord Shelbourne to Wolfe (1758, January); Wolfe's fiancee, Katherine Lowther to Mrs. Wolfe (1759, Oct. 25), and a note, in the hand of Thomas Bell, written at Montmorenci instructing "Major Dalling to come to Headquarters with both the captured women"). include: a 1759 caricature by George Townshend (with Wolfe saying to Canadian women "Approach, chere dames, there is nothing to fear"); a small round watercolor sketch of Wolfe inscribed "Quebec 1759," and a watercolor and pencil sketches by Hervey Smyth. As seen from the accompanying correspondence, Smyth's sketches were exhibited at London Instituion in 1828. There is also a series of penicl sketches, by William Makepeace Thackeray, for his Virginians. There is a pencil sketch and the inscription for Joseph Wilton's Wolfe memorial in the Westminster Abbey.

ArchivalResource: 31 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/552281903 View

Wilton, Joseph, 1722-1803. Autograph letter signed : Hammersmith, to Ozias Humphry, 1784 Dec. 11.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Hammersmith, to Ozias Humphry, 1784 Dec. 11.

Thanking him for his offer to carry packets to Calcutta, and wishing him a safe voyage.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270587536 View

Papers relating to the British conquest of Canada, 1759-1773

Title: Papers relating to the British conquest of Canada, 1759-1773.

Manuscripts, portraits, maps and other documents British major-general James Wolfe relating particularly to the campaign against Quebec in 1759.

ArchivalResource: 3 v. (.3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00976/catalog View

Johnsoniana, 1712-1916 (inclusive), 1773-1836 (bulk).

Title: Johnsoniana, 1712-1916 (inclusive), 1773-1836 (bulk).

Letters, anecdotes and other papers relating to lexicographer SamuelJohnson, collected and bound in the 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01758/catalog View

Wilton, Joseph, 1722-1803. Autograph letter signed : London, to "Reverend Sir", 1774 Jul. 15.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to "Reverend Sir", 1774 Jul. 15.

Asking him to try to get to the Duke of Northumberland to recommend WIlliam Croshaw as a Surveyor for the County of Middlesex.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270587839 View