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East India Company Manuscript Collection, 1598-1914, 1750-1850

Title: East India Company Manuscript Collection 1598-1914 1750-1850

The East India Manuscript Collection is composed of various documents that relate to the British East India Company. The collection includes personal accounts, letters, official records, and other various materials. EAD Finding Aid created by Amber Repp under the direction of Special Collections Special Projects Librarian, Amy E. Dawson.

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Napier Family Papers, 1780-1933

Title: Napier Family Papers 1780-1933

ArchivalResource: 78 shelfmarks

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb161-mss.eng.lett.c.234-54,d.230-47,d.296-7,d.299,e.101-3;eng.hist.c.488,d.306;eng.misc.b.96-9,b.104,c.471-80,c.485,c.505,e.603-7,f.399-402;frenchc.37-8,d.32;ch.londonandmiddlesex514,ireland18 View

Napier, Charles James, 1782-1853. Papers [manuscript].

Title: Papers [manuscript]. [ca. 1790-1850]

The papers consist of: (1) letters and documents relating to Sir Charles Napier's activities in Ireland and England. This includes a plan of a field works drawn up by Lt. Charles Napier for the defence of Colbridge in 1790 and executed by his father, a 'Memorandum with respect to the defense of Ireland' dated Feb. 7, 1797. Also official and private letters concerned with army matters. (2) Letters and documents to Gen. Napier while he was Governor of the Scinde, including reports from General Simpson.

ArchivalResource: 3 cm. (1 package).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225825506 View

Napier, Henry Edward, 1789-1853. Papers, 1829-1859.

Title: Papers, 1829-1859.

Family letters of Napier from his brother, Sir Charles James Napier, his cousin, Admiral Sir Charles Napier, and others, concerning family matters; the tariff situation, 1842; and affairs in India, 1844. Also contains a copy, 1831, of Sir George Thomas Napier's account of the death of Sir John Moore after the battle of Coruna in 1809 and a letter, 1846, to Henry Edward Napier from Ichabod Charles Wright concerning Wright's translations of Dante and Napier's Florentine history (London: 1846-1847).

ArchivalResource: 43 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20030353 View

Moore, Graham, Sir, 1764-1843. Papers, 1812-1840.

Title: Papers, 1812-1840.

Collection contains Moore's correspondence including a letter (1812) from him to Henry Kinsey concerning the status of Kinsey's son, an officer on the H.M.S. CHATHAM; letters (1824) of Sir Charles James Napier concerning the acquisition of source material for his brother Sir William Francis Patrick Napier's "History of the War in the Peninsula" (London: 1828-1840), and the controversy over Sir John Moore's role in that campaign; and a letter from Napier (1840) concerning the Chartist disorders.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38196556 View

Napier, Charles James, 1782-1853. [Letters] [microform] / [Charles James Napier].

Title: [Letters] [microform] / [Charles James Napier]. 1849-1851.

ArchivalResource: items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29176406 View

Walter, Emma Mary, 1816-1850. Diaries, 1838-1850.

Title: Diaries, 1838-1850.

Journals provide details of the life of the wife of an officer of the 3rd Bombay Light Infantry as she followed her husband in India from 1838-1850. The author described housing, food, travel, native customs, and disease as well as writing of the military and political developments she observed or learned from reports. During the annexation of the Sind province, Mrs. Walter was at Sukkur, and wrote of the activities of Napier, Elphinstone, Outram, and Ellenborough. Entries provide a first-hand account of the last days of the East India company and of events culminating in the Sepoy Rebellion.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27257277 View

Napier, Charles James, 1782-1853. Papers, 1820-1858.

Title: Papers, 1820-1858.

Papers contain letters, 1820-1847, from Napier to Dr. Henry Muir discussing personal matters, Muir's work as health officer at Cephalonia and inspector general for health at Corfu, politics, Sir Frederick Adam, and the administration of the Ionian Islands. Other correspondence concerns publications of Napier's, particularly letters to the Naval and Military Gazette; disturbances on the Isle of Man, 1840; administration in India; military affairs in India and Burma; general military matters, and politics in Britain.

ArchivalResource: 25 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20030345 View

Johnsonian Miscellanies, extra-illustrated, 1538-1900 (inclusive);, 1738-1866 (bulk).

Title: Johnsonian Miscellanies, extra-illustrated, 1538-1900 (inclusive); 1738-1866 (bulk).

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

ArchivalResource: 9 volumes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01781/catalog View

Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861,. Letters of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1843, 1852.

Title: Letters of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1843, 1852.

In a third person letter, 1852, the Queen notes that she has read Lord Dalhousie's dispatch and has told Lord Derby that she agrees with the opinion of the Governor General [Dalhousie], possibly concerning an action taken during the 2nd Anglo-Burmese War. The letter is written on engraved stationery depicting Osborne House. In a letter to Count Alphonse de Mensdorff Pouilly, 1843 April 7, Prince Albert offers congratulations on his marriage, suggests that he get transferred to another garrison, comments that "Victoria is only a few more days away from an interesting event that will make me appear even more respectable" [the birth of Alice Maud Mary on April 25] and notes Sir Charles Napier's victory in Hyderabad [at the Battle of Miani].

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56906325 View

Napier, Charles James, 1782-1853. Autograph letter signed : Oaklands, to Lieut. W. A. Neale, 1852 Mar. 20.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Oaklands, to Lieut. W. A. Neale, 1852 Mar. 20.

Regretting he cannot present him at the next levy, as he will not be present himself.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270610628 View

Seaton, John Colborne, Baron, 1778-1863. Correspondence, 1819-1854.

Title: Correspondence, 1819-1854.

Letters to Seaton from General Sir George Thomas Napier and from General Sir William Francis Napier and other correspondence, relating to William Napier's book, History of the War in the Peninsula (1842), General Sir Charles James Napier, and the colonies in which Seaton and the Napiers served.

ArchivalResource: 47 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20159115 View

Napier, Charles James, 1782-1853. Papers, 1811-1885.

Title: Papers, 1811-1885.

Papers contain letters, 1820-1847, from Napier to Dr. Henry Muir discussing personal matters, Muir's work as health officer at Cephalonia and inspector general for health at Corfu, politics, Sir Frederick Adam, and the administration of the Ionian Islands. Other correspondence concerns publications of Napier's, particularly letters to the Naval and Military Gazette; disturbances on the Isle of Man, 1840; administration in India; military affairs in India and Burma; general military matters, and politics in Britain. Also includes a personal letter to B.A. Davenport; a letter to Donald Currie, 1885; a paper written by Knaves about penal laws of Ireland; and a newspaper clipping.

ArchivalResource: 39 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122581359 View

Arthur, George, Sir, 1784-1854. Papers [manuscript].

Title: Papers [manuscript]. 1828-1938.

Typescript (carbon) of an article on the Indian papers of Sir George Arthur for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, Archives lectures, 1937-1938. Typescript of notes, etc. including: Supplement. Arthur letterbook 1842, extracts (Arthur-Ellenborough correspondence); Willoughby letters, Oct. 1843-Apr. 1844; Supplementary material for article taken from letterbook 1843-1844 (containing copies of letters sent by Arthur and chiefly concerning the Outram-Napier controversy); Biographical notes on Sir Charles Napier; Letterbook, 1844-1846. Arthur-Hardinge correspondence; Schedule of Sir George Arthur's Indian papers; Also Proclamation by Arthur 1 Nov. 1828 and correspondence between NLA and Crisp & Wright, 1935.

ArchivalResource: 2 cm. + 1 fol. item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225827378 View

Napier, Charles James, 1782-1853. Autograph letter signed : Oaklands, to Lt. Col. Rathborne, 1852 Mar. 3.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Oaklands, to Lt. Col. Rathborne, 1852 Mar. 3.

About forwarding a letter of his to Lord Ellenborough and discussing his health.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 198 x 126 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270610630 View

Napier, William Francis Patrick, 1785-1860. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Lt. Col. Rathborne, ca.1853-60.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Lt. Col. Rathborne, ca.1853-60.

Concerning Sir George Clerk's comments on Sir Charles Napier and plans to write his life.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270610541 View

Napier, Charles James, 1782-1853. Letter, 1851 Jan. 15.

Title: Letter, 1851 Jan. 15.

One ALS to Lionel Stephen Hough (later Colonel Hough). A vehement letter giving his views on the rifle and its uselessness as a weapon in the Indian Army. With the letter is typed transcript.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (8 pp.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122509745 View

William Baskerville Hamilton Papers, 1700-1975

Title: William Baskerville Hamilton Papers, 1700-1975

ArchivalResource: 53,700 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/hamilton/ View

Johnsonian Miscellanies, extra-illustrated, 1538-1900 (inclusive);, 1738-1866 (bulk).

Title: Johnsonian Miscellanies, extra-illustrated, 1538-1900 (inclusive); 1738-1866 (bulk).

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

ArchivalResource: 9 volumes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01781/catalog View

Napier, Charles James, 1782-1853. Napier papers [microform] / [Charles James Napier].

Title: Napier papers [microform] / [Charles James Napier]. 1849-[1850?]

ArchivalResource: 146 folios.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29177104 View