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Personal correspondence from the Duke of Portland to Henry Dunry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville. (Manuscript)
1797-09-14 – 1798-02-21
MEL/16/2
'The Present Facilities for the Invasion of England, and the Defence Thereof' by T B Collinson. (Manuscript)
circa 1880
HLL/6/4
A series of letter to Nelson from people whose surname begins with B such as Admiral Bligh, Reverand Bolton, Captain Brodie and Captain Charles Boyles. (Manuscript)
1800-12-24 - 1805-02-10
CRK/2/61-80
Photographs, prints and papers relating to research and publication of the biography (Manuscript)
1942-1946
LEN/1/6
St Vincent to Nelson, Tor Abbey, 26 January 1801, (Secret and Confidential), Intelligence on Lucien Buonaparte's mission to Madrid to requisition the naval force of Spain and to compel Portugal to join, he will ask Spencer to send Nelson back after Copenhagen (Manuscript)
1801-01-26
CRK/11/93
Jervis to Nelson, HMS VICTORY, San Fiorenzo Bay, 16 October [1796], need for completion of evacuation of Bastia, to take troops from Porto Ferrajo and Caprajo in line of battle ships if no transports (Manuscript)
1796-10-16 - ?
CRK/11/86
Jervis to Nelson, HMS VICTORY, San Fiorenzo Bay, 19 October [1796], troops to be sent to Porto Ferraio, details of Sawyers court martial, Captain Darcy Preston preferred to Hotham to take the HMS BLANCHE (Manuscript)
1796-10-19
CRK/11/90
Letters from Joseph Banks to Nevil Maskelyne. (Manuscript)
1797-05-03
MSK/3/2/3
Admiral Sir William Parker. Holograph letter to Earl St Vincent, dated from HMS STORK, Yarmouth Roads, 3 January 1801. (Manuscript)
1757-01-01 - 1836-12-31
AGC/10/8
Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker. Holograph, to James Sykes, dated 26 February 1781; Signature on acting order, dated on board the SWIFTSURE, 28 December 1795. (Manuscript)
1757-01-01 - 1836-12-31
AGC/10/6
Manuscript signal book kept by J Holmes, in HMS QUEEN, in the West Indies. (Manuscript)
1796 - 1800
SIG/B/29
St Vincent to Nelson, Mortimer St, 14 February 1801, reporting he is to succeed Lord Spencer at the Admiralty, and has approval for Troubridge and Markham in place of Young and Gambier (Manuscript)
1801-02-14 - ?
CRK/11/94
Mundy, George, Admiral Sir, 1777-1861. (Manuscript)
1793-1835
MDY/1
Registrar General Of Shipping And Seamen, Agreements, Crew Lists And Official Logs (Manuscript)
1862
RSS/CL/1862/845
Letter from Quintin Woolnough to his wife from Halifax, Nova Scotia (Manuscript)
1794-08-07
WOO/1/14
In-Letters from the Admiralty concering transport 1793 -
1797
ADM/R
Letters written by Hoste to his mother, father and sister. (Manuscript)
1794-1802
HOS/2/1
Various naval orders, calculations and instructions. (Manuscript)
1797-1815
KIT/2
Documents related to medical facilities for servicemen overseas. (Manuscript)
1795-04-20 – 1798-09-08
MEL/13
Nelson thanks Berry for his letter and expresses his pleasure at the narrative of the Battle of the Nile, Berry has written. (Manuscript)
1798-12-10
BER/6/4
Volume two of letters of Lieutenant George Thorp with his family, (1791-97). (Manuscript)
1791- 1797
LBK/55/2
Admiral Sir Hyde Parker. Autograph order by Sir Hyde Parker to Rear Admiral Richard Graves, dated from HMS LONDON, Yarmouth Roads, 10 March, 1801. (Manuscript)
1757-01-01 - 1836-12-31
AGC/10/9
Rear Admiral B W Page. Holograph manuscript concerning the changes in naval officers' uniform from 1795-1827. (Manuscript)
1757-01-01 - 1836-12-31
AGC/10/10
Letter from J. Kirkling (Manuscript)
1797-08-04
NEP/9/13
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