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Purvis, John Child, Admiral, 1746-1825
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Letters, 1809. (Manuscript)
1809-01-01 - ?
PRV/41
Letters, 1807 (Manuscript)
1807-01-01 - ?
PRV/39
Duchess of Abrante and Count Cevellous to Purvis, Spanish Original, 13 February 1810, request for passage to Gibraltar from Cadiz (Manuscript)
1810-02-13 - ?
PRV/57/6
Translation, of French Flag of Truce sent to Cadiz and the Junta of Cadiz's answer, 7 February 1810 (Manuscript)
1810-02-07 - ?
PRV/57/3
Duchess of Infantada, Cadiz, to Purvis, off Cadiz, 6 February 1810, request for asylum (Manuscript)
1810-02-06 - ?
PRV/57/2
Translation of a gazette from Seville, defeat of French by Austrian Army, 5 June 1809 (Manuscript)
1809-06-05 - ?
PRV/55/13
African Institution (Macaulay), London, to Commanding Officer of HM Ships on Cadiz station, (copy), 8 February 1810, two Acts of Parliament relative to the abolition of slave trade (Manuscript)
1810-02-08 - ?
PRV/57/5
Intercepted letter from a French Officer to a correspondent at Bayonne, Madrid, 21 August 1809 (Manuscript)
1809-08-21
PRV/55/15
General Campbell, Gibraltar, to Purvis, (Cadiz), 2 February 1810, troops to Gibraltar (Manuscript)
1810-02-02 - ?
PRV/57/1
Captains letters, 1810 (Manuscript)
1810-01-01 - ?
PRV/45
Captain Hallowell, HMS TIGRE, Port Mahon, to Villava, 23 March 1810, (copy), re movement of French prisoners (Manuscript)
1810-03-23
PRV/57/16
Luis de Villava, Governor of Mahon, to Captain Hallowell, 22 March 1810, translation, re French prisoners (Manuscript)
1810-03-22
PRV/57/15
Louis de Villava, Governor of Mahon to Lord Collingwood, (copy), 6 March 1810, requests loan to the government of Mahon (Manuscript)
1810-03-06 - ?
PRV/57/10
Captain Hallowell, HMS TIGRE, Port Mahon, to Governor of Mahon, (copy), 6 March 1810, re British port and Spanish troop movements (Manuscript)
1810-03-06 - ?
PRV/57/9
Collingwood, HMS ATLAS, Cadiz harbour, to Wellington, 6 March 1810, copy, relating to a plan for landing and taking possession of the island of Trocadero (Manuscript)
1810-03-06 - ?
PRV/57/11
Admiralty Office (Croker) to Purvis, Cadiz, 15 February 1810, re reinforcements (Manuscript)
1810-02-15 - ?
PRV/57/8
Manuel de Lleva de Iniques, Cadiz, to Mr Canning, Minister for foreign affairs, 31 January 1809, copy, re presentation of painting (Manuscript)
1809-01-31
PRV/55/2
General Cradock, Cadiz, to Purvis, 24 May 1809, enclosing copies of two letters from Lord Castlereagh. Regiment dispatches from Gibraltar to Lisbon (Manuscript)
1809-05-24
PRV/55/10
Treasury Chambers to Lordships of the Admiralty, (copy), 23 May 1809, arrangements made by Hon. A Cochrane Johnson with Spanish Government on financial issues (Manuscript)
1809-05-23
PRV/55/9
Martin de Garay, Royal Castle of Seville, 22 May 1809, translation of Spanish Royal decree (4 pages) (Manuscript)
1809-05-22
PRV/55/7
Admiralty Office to Purvis, Cadiz, 23 May 1809 (Manuscript)
1809-05-23
PRV/55/8
Particulars of the Battle of Medellin between Spanish and French, 4 April 1809 (Manuscript)
1809-04-04 - ?
PRV/55/5
Collingwood, HMS OCEAN, off Minorca, to J.H Frere, HM minister, Seville, 16 March 1809, (copy), Brest and Toulon Fleets (Manuscript)
1809-03-16 - ?
PRV/55/4
Admiralty Office to Purvis, Off Cadiz, 22 March 1808, [secret] orders to protect convoys in straits of Gibraltar (Manuscript)
1808-03-22
PRV/52/12
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