Fine collection of manuscripts, including letters etc., by Lord Thomas Cochrane (note from Deptford Yard, signed as Lord Dundonald), Admiral Villeneuve (on board the Bucentaure, Toulon, 2 January 1805, worrying about money), Sir William Penn (document signed with Mennes and Brouncker, 1667), Sir John Jervis Earl St Vincent (touching letter signed, as Jervis, seeking admission of a sailor to Greenwich: “I beg your forgievness for troubling you with such a detail, trusting you will ascribe it, to the feelings of a Seaman, operating in favor of a gallant Shipmate”, and one of 1817), Lord Elgin (from the Port to Sir Sidney Smith about the treaty of El Arish, 1800), Sir John Duckworth (“...I am half, if not wholely mad about the success of my Protégée Lord Exmouth...”), Sir Philip Broke (of Shannon versus Chesapeake fame), Edward Belcher, Sir Thomas Allen (warrant, also signed by Erne and Brouncker, 1672), Sir Gilbert Blane, Lord Bridport, Sir Stratford de Canning (to Sir Sydney Smith), Sir Alexander Cochrane, Sir Roger Curtis (“...at which time I consider myself as ceasing to be under the Orders of the Earl of St Vincent, and to which day I claim my proportion of Prize Money...”), J.W. Croker (long letter from the Admiralty to Gilbert Davies discussing dry-docking ships in ordinary), Lord Duncan (peppery letter to the printseller Orme), Lord Gambier, Lord Gardner, Admirals Richard and Nicholas Haddock, Basil Hall, Edward Lord Hawke, Samuel Lord Hood, James Horsburgh, Sir William Hoste, Sir Edward Hughes (regarding intelligence of the French in the East Indies, 1781), Admiral Lord Keith, Augustus Lord Keppel, Admiral La Touche-Tréville (who repelled Nelson at Boulogne), Admiral Napier, Sir Home Popham, Sir James Saumarez (from the Caesar, about his KB and baronetcy, 1801), Sir Charles Saunders (certificate, 1747), Admiral Tegethoff, Sir Thomas Trowbridge (signed instructions for the Carteret cutter), Admiral Vernon (document signed at Port Royal, 1740), Admiral Sir Charles Wager (1732 – “We are all Politicians in England”, with a document signed by him and fellow Commissioners, directed to the yard at Woolwich, 1716), Admiral Sir John Borlaise Warren (1783), Captain Cowper Phipps Coles (memorandum on Russian turret ships), and others, guards
Fine collection of manuscripts, including letters etc., by Lord Thomas Cochrane (note from Deptford Yard, signed as Lord Dundonald), Admiral Villeneuve (on board the Bucentaure, Toulon, 2 January 1805, worrying about money), Sir William Penn (document signed with Mennes and Brouncker, 1667), Sir John Jervis Earl St Vincent (touching letter signed, as Jervis, seeking admission of a sailor to Greenwich: “I beg your forgievness for troubling you with such a detail, trusting you will ascribe it, to the feelings of a Seaman, operating in favor of a gallant Shipmate”, and one of 1817), Lord Elgin (from the Port to Sir Sidney Smith about the treaty of El Arish, 1800), Sir John Duckworth (“...I am half, if not wholely mad about the success of my Protégée Lord Exmouth...”), Sir Philip Broke (of Shannon versus Chesapeake fame), Edward Belcher, Sir Thomas Allen (warrant, also signed by Erne and Brouncker, 1672), Sir Gilbert Blane, Lord Bridport, Sir Stratford de Canning (to Sir Sydney Smith), Sir Alexander Cochrane, Sir Roger Curtis (“...at which time I consider myself as ceasing to be under the Orders of the Earl of St Vincent, and to which day I claim my proportion of Prize Money...”), J.W. Croker (long letter from the Admiralty to Gilbert Davies discussing dry-docking ships in ordinary), Lord Duncan (peppery letter to the printseller Orme), Lord Gambier, Lord Gardner, Admirals Richard and Nicholas Haddock, Basil Hall, Edward Lord Hawke, Samuel Lord Hood, James Horsburgh, Sir William Hoste, Sir Edward Hughes (regarding intelligence of the French in the East Indies, 1781), Admiral Lord Keith, Augustus Lord Keppel, Admiral La Touche-Tréville (who repelled Nelson at Boulogne), Admiral Napier, Sir Home Popham, Sir James Saumarez (from the Caesar, about his KB and baronetcy, 1801), Sir Charles Saunders (certificate, 1747), Admiral Tegethoff, Sir Thomas Trowbridge (signed instructions for the Carteret cutter), Admiral Vernon (document signed at Port Royal, 1740), Admiral Sir Charles Wager (1732 – “We are all Politicians in England”, with a document signed by him and fellow Commissioners, directed to the yard at Woolwich, 1716), Admiral Sir John Borlaise Warren (1783), Captain Cowper Phipps Coles (memorandum on Russian turret ships), and others, guards
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