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Letters of John Evelyn
Evelyn, John (1620-1706)
1687-1699
Contains: (1) A letter to Dr Robert Plot, dated 9 Dec [16]87; (2) A letter to Ralph Thoresby, the Leeds historian, dated 19 July [16]99
Collection of letters concerning the Jacobite Rebellion of 1722 in Scotland and the North of England.
1722
Contains 4 autograph letters from the Hon. Edward Carteret, Postmaster General, to Charles Viscount Townshend, concerning letters passing through the post suspected of being of a treasonable nature, a...
Correspondence concerning the Jacobite Rebellion 1715 : despatches from Viscount Townshend and Earl Stanhope to the Duke of Argyll.
Townshend, Charles
1715-1716
Comprises 35 letters, apparently the only surviving original official record of the despatches from Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend and Mr Secretary Stanhope (afterwards James, 1st Earl Stanhope) to t...
Letters from Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds, to his wife, Bridget Osborne.
Osborne, Peregrine Hyde
1677-1723
Comprises 44 autograph letters from Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds, to his wife Bridget dated 14 September 1677 - 21 May 1723 (with transcripts). Many of these letters were written before their ...
Letter from Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds, to his sister.
Osborne, Peregrine Hyde
1694
Comprises 1 autograph letter from Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds, to his unnamed sister dated 9 June 1694 (with a transcript). It concerns the Battle of Camaret Bay, which had been fought the da...
Letters from Peregrine Hyde Osborne to his grandfather, Sir Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds.
Osborne, Peregrine Hyde
1706-1711
Comprises 9 autograph letters from Peregrine Hyde Osborne, 3rd Duke of Leeds, to his grandfather, Sir Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, dated 10/21 January 1706/7 - 23 March/3 April 1710/11, 4 of whi...
Letters from Francis Osborne to his father, Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds, with related literary material.
Osborne, Francis
1769-1783
Comprises 17 autograph letters from Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds, to his father, Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds, dated 6 August 1769 - 1 November 1783 (with transcripts), and 4 separate Engli...