Biographical notes on Sir Sidney Smith, 1846.

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Biographical notes on Sir Sidney Smith, 1846.

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Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of several hundred handwritten notes, sketches, printed materials, and newspaper clippings, pasted or tipped in, and primarily concerning Sir Sidney Smith, Admiral of the Royal Navy. The volume includes a substantial printed biography of Smith by John Marshall; several newspaper clippings of his death; printed correspondence between Smith and the British consul in Morocco titled Correspondence on the Aethopian sea, and the ancient Atlantide island, "presented to Mr Dorset Fellowes by Sir Sidney Smith"; a handwritten transcript of "Anecdotes and recollections respecting Sir Sidney Smith and Captain Wright of the Royal Navy, by W. D. Fellowes"; excerpts from John Barrow's biography of Smith; and an engraving of Smith's arms. The work is prefaced by a memorandum dated 1848, in which the author presents his nephew Charles Fellowes, Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, with these notes; another memorandum observes that the purpose of collecting these notes was to preserve the memory of his esteemed friend's achievements. The manuscript also includes numerous notes, sketches, engravings, and documents concerning the establishment of the Knights Templar in London in 1830, to which Smith and Fellowes belonged. This material includes an official document convening the members of the order, signed by Fellowes, the secretary; a list of the members of the Order of the Temple, assembled under Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, in 1830; a pen-and-colored wash drawing of a Knight Templar; and a printed French biography and several engravings and signatures of the Duke of Sussex. The volume also contains numerous notes on King Richard I of England, especially concerning the cross he wore in the Holy Land; notes on the Crusades; a printed history of Richard I; a map and engraving of Loches, where Richard I's arms were found; a pencil drawing of the arms at the Priory of Saint Ours in Loches; and an engraving of the castle in which he was held captive. The mansucript also contains a note on Fellowes' brother, Sir Thomas Fellowes, also in the Royal Navy; and clippings and notes on the Duke of Wellington; Jean-Andoche Junot; and Napoleon Buonaparte.

1 v. (ca. 140 p.) ; 26 x 20 cm.

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