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Box 1

 Container
Call Number: MS 41:A

Contains 30 Results:

From Major S. Stanton, 1767 - 1771

 File — Box: 1, Folder: XVII.
Scope and Contents

Stanton appears to have been a personal friend and an aide-de camp, writing Parliamentary news from London. File also includes one letter to Stanton from Henry Drummond, concerning selling Townshend's house.

Dates: 1767 - 1771

From Sidney Swinney, 1768 - 1770

 File — Box: 1, Folder: XVIII.
Scope and Contents

Old school fellow, concerning Swinney's poem "The Battle of Minden" and the possibility of Townshend's drawing caricatures for it.

Dates: 1768 - 1770

From Thomas de Grey, 1717-1781, 1769

 File — Box: 1, Folder: XIX.
Scope and Contents

Parliamentary news: passing the Militia Bill and County opposition to the Militia; de Grey was elected a member of Parliament for Norfolk in 1764, 1768.

Dates: 1769

From Colonel E. Smith, 1771

 File — Box: 1, Folder: XX.
Scope and Contents

Burgoyne, politics, parliamentary and personal news, preferment, East India Company.

Dates: 1771

General Alexander Ross, 1742-1827, letters received

 File — Box: 1, Folder: XXII.
Scope and Contents

Letters directed to General Alexander Ross (1742-1827), concerning his military career in Scotland, India, and Sussex; experimental firearms; military-political gossip. Includes letters from General Conway; Lieutenant General Fawcett; Lionel Darell; Lieutenant William Cragg; [B.?] Close; William Pulteney; F. M. Keith; Armit & Borough; Hugh Inglis; George Garth; Colonel [Coote?] Manningham; John Bebb; John Duning; and Wilbraham Bootle.

Sydney-Yonge correspondence, 1784 - 1802

 File — Box: 1, Folder: XXIII.
Scope and Contents

Letters addressed to or concerning Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, 1733-1800 and Sir George Yonge, 1731-1812. Correspondents include H. Duncombe; William Pitt; John Freeman; Lieutenant Colonle J. Barry; Lady Burgoyne; W. Tusten; Major General Phil Skene; [Sir] John DelaPole; and Elphinstone. Primarily concern preferments; one letter concerns pardon for a transported convict.

Dates: 1784 - 1802