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Correspondence of Admiral Samuel Hood, covering between 1782 and 1783. (Manuscript)
1782-04-09 - 1783-09-11
HOO/1/82-133
Correspondence of Admiral Samuel Hood, covering between 1787 and 1793. (Manuscript)
1787-11-02 - 1793-08-23
HOO/2/177-217/A
Correspondence of Admiral Samuel Hood, for the year 1793. (Manuscript)
1793-08-23 - 1793-10-03
HOO/2/218-261
Correspondence of Admiral Samuel Hood, covering between 1793 and 1794. (Manuscript)
1793-10-04 - 1794-02-26
HOO/3/262-321
Correspondence of Admiral Samuel Hood, covering the year 1794. (Manuscript)
1794-08-01 - 1794-11-00
HOO/4/402-444
Correspondence of Admiral Samuel Hood, covering between 1795 and 1815. (Manuscript)
1795-02-06 - 1815-09-21
HOO/4/445-504
Hood, Centaur, off Martinique, to Markham, (NRS), on Mr Williamson, and other appointments (Manuscript)
1803
MRK/101/13/57
Sir Sam Hood, Plymouth Dock, to My Dear Lord [Earl St Vincent], (NRS), on the offer of a seat, on ship collision in Cawsand Bay (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/13/61
Sam Hood, [Plymouth Dock], (NRS), memo on use of cutters and luggers for intelligence, (enclosed in MRK/101/13/64), on lack of knowledge of enemy movements (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/13/64
Sam Hood, Plymouth Dock, to Markham, on Centaurs progress, on fixing the ports (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/13/67
Miscellaneous papers 27 August 1811-29 Dec 1812 including correspondence with Charles Yorke, Lord Minto, Sir George Hilaro Barlow and Sir Gore Onseley regarding topics relating to Trincomalee, (Manuscript)
1811-1812
MKH/235
Miscellaneous papers January 1813 - 1815 including a copy of a report on the esplanade at Trincomalee 21 Feb 1813, a letter from the King of Acheen 1 May 1814 and from Mr J L Elphinstone, Chief Supercargo, Canton 17 May 1814 (Manuscript)
1813-1815
MKH/236
Letter to Lieutenant Charles Hare from Lord Hood (Manuscript)
1811-11-17
BGY/H/14/2/26
Letter to Lieutenant Charles Hare from Lord Hood (Manuscript)
1811-12-09
BGY/H/14/2/25
Letter from Rear-Admiral Samuel Hood to George White, 1781. (Manuscript)
1781-02-07
JHS/1
Correspondence of Admiral Samuel Hood, covering between 1793 and 1794. (Manuscript)
1793-10-04 - 1794-02-17
HOO/3
Hood, Samuel, Admiral, 1st Viscount Hood, 1724-1816 (Manuscript)
circa 1780-1795
HOO/103
Miscellaneous papers including treaties, letters and Lord Hood's service. (Manuscript)
1789 - 1808
HOO/28/1
Hood, Samuel, Admiral, 1st Viscount Hood, 1724-1816 (Manuscript)
circa 1761
HOO/27/5
The appointment of Lord Viscount Hood as the Governor of Greenwich Hospital. (Manuscript)
1796
HOO/28/3
Letters and orders 1808 from the Admiralty, the Navy Board, Hydrographic Office and also papers relating to Hood's capture of the Ship SEWOLOD (Manuscript)
1808
MKH/110
Rough drafts of letters by Hood, mainly late 1814 (Manuscript)
1814
MKH/183
Hood's command of the East Indies Station: letter from Captain Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, PHAETON 20 May 1812 (Manuscript)
1812-05-20
MKH/170
Letters from the Admiralty, Mr Anthony Merry, Mr Charles Fenwick, Rear-Admiral Sir Albermarle Bertie and other miscellaneous papers 1809, (Manuscript)
1809
MKH/114
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