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Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth
Austen, Francis William
Austen, Robert
Barrie, Robert
Bayntun, Henry William
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letters from Horatio Nelson, mainly to his mother (Horatio Nelson, Viscount Merton and Trafalgar 1788-
1808
1799-1807
BRP/1/2
NANCY (apparently formerly DE MEEUW/ SALLY) 1805-1811: Voyage, fitters' accounts etc March-July
1808
:
1808
HNL/91/7
Letter written by Merrick, HMS ARDENT, to his nephew, 21 December
1808
. (Manuscript)
1808-12-21
AGC/M/20/13
Fourteen letters from family and friends, including several on the death of Horace, Earl Nelson's son in
1808
1799-1834
BRP/1/3
SURRY (formerly CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA) 1806-1810: Mate's account November
1808
-February 1809.
1808-1809
HNL/116/7
Copies of orders and memoranda given on BARFLEUR 23 Dec
1808
-17 January 1809 during the re-embarkation
1808-1809
MKH/252
LADY JULIANA 1791-1825 - Master ca.April
1808
-November 1811, Ralph Charter.
1809-1811
HNL/77/59
the theory and practice of seamanship, together with a system of naval signals', Richard Hall Gower,
1808
1808
TUN/58
apparently formerly DE MEEUW/ SALLY) 1805-1811: Transport voyage, portage accounts, articles etc July
1808
1808-1809
HNL/91/8
Trade papers including letter with list of lots sold for Captain Hamilton 22 Dec
1808
, accounts and rough
1805-1808
HMN/49/A-B
Letters from Earl St Vincent to different members of the Tucker family
1808
- 1842 (Manuscript)
TUC/18-22
Letters to and from John Child Purvis collection
1808
including translation of foreign letters.
PRV/53
MARY (formerly ADMIRAL VAN KINGSBERGEN) 1804-
1808
: Printed inventory and other papers relating to purchase
1804
HNL/86/1
State and Disposition of the Fleet
1808
-14; Surveys of Ships 1807 - 1814 in North America.
1807-12-30 - 1814-03
WAR/30
Ten essays sketching Aland life over the years
1808
-1856. (Manuscript)
1982
MSS/82/144
'Royal College' Greenwich 1801; his tailor,1802, 1804, 1805 ; Sir Isaac Heard, dated from Greenwich,
1808
1801-1808
AGC/6/18
Logbook, ATLAS, 30 Aug-31 Dec
1808
, 1 Jan-30 Apr 1809, 1 May-31 Dec 1809, 1 January-30 April 1810, kept
1808-1810
PRV/17/B
Letters and orders
1808
from the Admiralty, the Navy Board, Hydrographic Office and also papers relating
1808
MKH/110
77/94), papers relating to cargo and port charges above Quebec voyage (HNL/81/13) February-December
1808
1808
HNL/81/14
Lord Nelson, Transport voyage, wages accounts, letter with crew list October
1808
-February 1809: Portsmouth-Corunna-Vigo-Portsmouth
1808-1809
HNL/82/30
WARRIOR, copies of all orders received and issued, and Oct 1812-Mar 1813, also letters sent May-Oct
1808
1808-05 - 1813-03
IGR/4
Horatio Nelson, nephew [son of brother William (1788-
1808
)] to Nelson, Eton, 3 September 1801, account
1801-09-03
CRK/9/89
Bound volume containing an account of Lord Keith with John Jackson, 1795-
1808
, and letter from Mr Jackson
1795-1808
KEI/L/165
Admiral Lord Collingwood to Admiral William Waldegrave OCEAN off Sicily, 4 April
1808
, Rochfort squadron
1808-04-04 - 1808-04-04
WDG/8/10
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