Jerrold Mitchell collection of military and naval autographs, 1695-1857.

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Jerrold Mitchell collection of military and naval autographs, 1695-1857.

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Collection of approximately 50 autograph letters and documents relating to members of the Royal Navy and the British Army, nearly all dating from between 1790 and 1830. Many of the letters are brief business letters relating to awards of prize money; requests for arrears of pay; testimonies of service on various ships or with particular regiments; and postage subsidies. A 1695 letter addressed to Cotton Dudley offers excuses for a soldier's absence from the Isle of Wight, and a tax document signed by Sir John D'Oyly contains an engraving of a Channel navigation chart and lighthouses. A 1779 letter from the firm of Andrew Buchanan & Co. details the sale of the ship Lilly in New York City. Several letters are related to service in the Peninsular War, including an 1818 letter by John Bromhead. A letter by the Earl of Clarendon mentions the price riots in Guildford, and a letter by the Earl of Mayo refers to the Catholic question in Ireland. An 1826 letter from Admiral Theodore Jones denounces the postal service at Tunbridge Wells. Other figures represented include Geoffrey Delhoste, Sir John Orde, and Henry Vansittart.

0.21 linear feet (1 box)

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8025978

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Clarendon, John Charles Villiers, Earl of, 1757-1838

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Mayo, John Bourke, Earl of, 1766-1849

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Great Britain. Army

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Whitmore was govenor of Cape Breton Island and the Island of St. John (Prince Edward Island). From the description of Receipt for wages paid for labor in the Cape Breton colliery : manuscript, 1760. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612812416 Administrative history unavailable. The University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections has a mandate to acquire military papers. From the description of Great Britain Army collection. [1800-1941]. (University o...

Orde, John, Sir, 1751-1824.

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Sir John Orde (1751-1824) entered the Royal Navy in 1766 and was promoted to captain during the American War of Independence. He was appointed governor of Dominica in 1783, but resigned to rejoin the Navy after the outbreak of war with revolutionary France a decade later. Promoted to Rear Admiral in 1795, he served in the Mediterranean Fleet under Lord St. Vincent, with whom he quarreled bitterly. In 1804 Orde commanded the successful blockade of Cadiz, and after a dispute with Lord Nelson he re...

Jones, Theodore, Admiral

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Vansittart, Henry, 1771-1843

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D'Oyly, John, 1774-1824

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Delhoste, Geoffrey Augustus, Captain

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Andrew Buchanan & Co.

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Bromhead, John

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Mitchell, Jerrold,

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Great Britain. Royal Navy

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Richard Howe, Earl Howe, was born in London, England, on March 19, 1726, the son of Emanuel Scrope Howe (1699-1735) and Mary Sophia Charlotte von Kielmansegg (1703-1782). Around 1735, he joined the crew of the merchant ship Thames, and in July 1739 he joined the 40-gun Royal Navy ship Pearl . Howe then served on several ships in the Caribbean and off the South American coast. After being promoted to lieutenant in 1744 and post captain in 1746, he continued his military service in th...

Dudley, Cotton.

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