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1.
An original letter addressed by the late Princess Charlotte to her mother, the Princess of Wales

Creator:
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
Published / Created:
[1822]
Call Number:
File 56 C47 822C
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Oakley, printer, Blandford
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817 and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
Motherhood
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > An original letter addressed by the late Princess Charlotte to her mother, the Princess of Wales, now Queen of England, in October, 1817

2.
Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont letter, London, to William Seward, 1787 Avril 30 : manuscript

Creator:
Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810
Call Number:
LWL Mss File 145
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Holograph letter, signed, from "La Chlve' d'Eon" to William Seward thanking him for the delivery of a book and pamphlet
Description:
The Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont (1728-1810) was a French diplomat who lived openly as a woman while in exile in England.
Subject (Name):
Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont letter, London, to William Seward, 1787 Avril 30 : manuscript

3.
Colonel Percy Kirke's dispatches from Tangier : to Secretary Jenkins and to the Lords of Treasury

Creator:
Kirke, Percy, 1646?-1691
Call Number:
Quarto 49 2572
Image Count:
256
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Letter book containing Kirke's dispatches from Tangier while in command of command of Lord Plymouth's regiment and later as governor of Tangier (1681-1683) to Secretary Jenkins and to the Lords of the Treasury
Description:
Percy Kirke (1646?-1691), British army officer and governor of Tangier from 1681-1683.
Subject (Geographic):
Tangier (Morocco) and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Kirke, Percy, 1646?-1691., Jenkins, Leoline, Sir, 1623-1685., and Great Britain. Treasury.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Colonel Percy Kirke's dispatches from Tangier : to Secretary Jenkins and to the Lords of Treasury, 1681-1683

4.
Copies of seven original letters from King Edward VI to Barnaby Fitz-Patrick

Creator:
Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553, author
Published / Created:
printed in the year M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]
Call Number:
49 2509
Image Count:
30
Resource Type:
text
Description:
The introductory advertisement signed: H. W., i.e. Horace Walpole.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553 and Fitz-Patrick, Barnaby, Baron of Upper Ossory, approximately 1535-1581.
Subject (Topic):
Correspondence
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Copies of seven original letters from King Edward VI to Barnaby Fitz-Patrick

5.
John Boyle Orrery letter, to Messrs. Dodsley, [not before 1754] : manuscript

Creator:
Orrery, John Boyle, Earl of, 1707-1762
Published / Created:
[not before 1750]
Call Number:
LWL Mss File 140
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Autographed letter signed by John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, and addressed to the booksellers Messrs. Dodsley on the subject of Horace Walpole. He commences the letter by asking to see any work by "Mr Walpole": "I am told of one that it is very difficul...
Description:
John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork (1707-1762), writer, friend of Swift, Pope and Johnson.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. and R. and J. Dodsley.
Subject (Topic):
Booksellers and bookselling
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > John Boyle Orrery letter, to Messrs. Dodsley, [not before 1754] : manuscript

6.
Letter : Angers, to Grimston, 1779 January 25.

Creator:
Chute, William, 1757-1824
Call Number:
LWL Mss File 41
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
ALS from W.J. Chute to his friend Grimston, relating the news he had heard about his friend's travels through Europe with their friend C. Collyer and expressing the hopes that they might meet up in the near future and his eagerness to leave Angers; he...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Angers (France)
Subject (Name):
Chute, William, 1757-1824., Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., and Palliser, Hugh, Sir, 1723-1796.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Letter : Angers, to Grimston, 1779 January 25.

7.
Letter : Halifax, to "Impudent Mr. Suppose", 1764 December 13.

Creator:
Farrell, Eleonora
Call Number:
LWL Mss File 83
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
An autograph letter signed from an itinerant actress Eleonora Garrell in a travelling theatre troupe, dated 13 December 1764 from the White Lion Inn in Halifax. An affectionate, teasing letter in which the writer reports on her employment with the "Sc...
Description:
Surname may be Garrell?
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Farrell, Eleonora. and Whitley, James Augustus, ca. 1724-1781.
Subject (Topic):
Actresses and Traveling theater
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Letter : Halifax, to "Impudent Mr. Suppose", 1764 December 13.

8.
Letter : No. 36 Windmill Street Rathbone Place, to Richard Bull, 1784 December 18.

Creator:
Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Autograph letter in the third person from Edward Edwards to Richard Bull. Edwards "begs [Bull's] acceptance of the inclosed portrait", presumably the etched portrait of Thomas Kirgate that is mounted beside this letter
Description:
In English.
Subject (Name):
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Letter : No. 36 Windmill Street Rathbone Place, to Richard Bull, 1784 December 18.

9.
Letter : to Dr. Thomas Symonds, [London], Plough Lane, Carew Street near Lincolns Inne, 1744

Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684-1756
Call Number:
744.00.00.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
An autographed letter signed (partially rubbed off) discussing family matters and financial concerns to his relative the Hon. Thomas Symonds at his seat at Pengethly in Herefordshire. Written on the verso of Vertue's engraving of "The west prospect o...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Name):
Vertue, George, 1684-1756. and Symonds, Thomas, Dr.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Letter : to Dr. Thomas Symonds, [London], Plough Lane, Carew Street near Lincolns Inne, 1744 September 15.

10.
Letter books of military correspondence, 1761 Apr 23-1764 Sep 19.

Creator:
Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795
Call Number:
LWL Mss Vol. 83
Image Count:
171
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of copies of several hundred letters from Conway to other military officials, including Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick and John Manners, Marquis of Granby, during his service as deputy to Granby, Commander of the British ...
Description:
Henry Seymour Conway (1719-1795) was an army general and politician. He fought in the War of the Austrian Succession; served in Ireland during the Jacobite Rebellion, and in Germany during the Seven Years' War. He was successively promoted to major ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Frederick, Lord, 1729-1803., Cockburn, James, Sir, 1723-1801., Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795., De Cosne, Ruvigny., Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792., Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770., and Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807.
Subject (Topic):
Military administration, Military camps, Military discipline, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Militia, and Politics and government
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Letter books of military correspondence, 1761 Apr 23-1764 Sep 19.

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