140 - BRITISH NAVAL HISTORY: A LARGE QUANTITY OF 18TH CENTURY CORRESPONDENCE, ADMIRALTY AND OTHER DOCUMENTS

BRITISH NAVAL HISTORY: A LARGE QUANTITY OF 18TH CENTURY CORRESPONDENCE, ADMIRALTY AND OTHER DOCUMENTS approx. 155 autograph and copy letters and documents comprising: Admiral Sir William Cornwallis (1744-1819), autograph letter to Admiral Collingwood, 24 th August [no date], 3pp.; William Grenville, 1st Bt. (1759-1834), while Foreign Secretary, letter signed from Downing Street, June 30th 1795, addressed to Quintin Crawfurd; David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, 7th Viscount of Stormont, (1727-1796, diplomat and politician), while ambassador in Paris, writing on various matters and says how pleased he is to hear of Lady Emma Hamilton’s improvement in health and that “no man I am sure can more ardently wish her all possible happiness nor feel how much she deserves it (Paris, March 14, 1774), 4pp.; Sir Thomas Troubridge 1st Bt. (1757-1807), manuscript document signed “T. Troubridge”, 14 January 1794, confirming that “Mr John Law served as Master under my command on board His Majesty’s Ship Castor”; Letter to Sir Thomas Frankland Bt. from his son, mentioning Admiral Nelson’s recent victory [at the Battle of the Nile], dated Oct. 7 th (1798), 2pp.; Admiral of the Fleet Edward Hawke, 1st Bt. (1705-1781, Royal Navy officer and politician), letter to Captain (later Admiral) John Campbell (1720-1790, Royal Navy officer, navigator and administrator), 16 December 1778, 2pp.; Vice-Admiral Sir Richard King, 2nd Bt. (1774-1834), on board H.M.S. Sirius, Dec. 13 th 1800, 3pp.; Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood 1st Bt. (1748-1810), manuscript general memo “Order of Battle” to the respective Captains and Commanders, “Given on board the Dreadnought at Radmiral ochefort, 19 th November 1804” and signed by Collingwood, this copy for Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves K.B. (1747-1814, who had served in the Seven Years’ War and, American War of Independence); Mark Milbanke, Admiral of the White (1724-1805), manuscript order on printed letterhead to William Butterfield commander of the sloop Hazard at Spithead, 15 th Sept. 1800; Letter from the Acting Surgeon of HMS Swiftsure, off Cadiz, March 6, 1800 to the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded Seamen, Somerset House, London, praising one of the assistant surgeons who served on board at the Battle of Trafalgar for his “great judgement and propriety” in attending to the wounded both their own and prisoners, and requesting that he continues to serve on the ship, 2pp.; A sermon “Preached at Wrabness & Wix [Essex], Decr. 19th 1797. In thanksgiving for the Victory obtained over the Dutch Fleet by Admiral now Lord Duncan on the 11 th October last at Camperdown” […] “ At Wrabness, Dec. 5th 1805. In thanksgiving for the Victory obtained over the combined French and Spanish Fleets by Admiral Lord Nelson […] on the 21 st October last, off Cape Trafalgar.”, manuscript, 29pp., small 4to; Naval Impressment, document dated 20 June 1797, signed by the lords commissioners of the Admiralty: Charles Small Pybus, James Gambier, William Young and Evan Nepean.; Letter to the Marine Society from the widow of William Leggatt requesting a widow’s relief, the letter with a note signed by Admiral George Rodney 1 st. Bt. stating “this memorial appears to me to be true”, dated May 17 th (1784?); Captain Arthur Maxwell of the East India Company, 2 autograph letters signed to his wife from the Island of St Iago, 29 th April 1781, 2pp., and Mozambique 22 nd Sept. 1781, 4pp., with manuscript ‘An account of the time of service of Arthur Maxwell […] in the East India Company’s Service’ and 3 page printed “Case of Arthur Maxwell” requesting financial reparations from the Company; Manuscript “List of Artificers employed on His Majesty’s Ship Perseverance between the 19 October and 20th November 1790”, 11pp. plus blanks, folio; together with many other letters and documents signed by Admiral Benjamin Hallowell (1761-1834), Sir Alexander Cochrane (1758-1832), Stratford Canning (1786-1880), Thomas Cochrane, Admiral Lord Dundonald (1775-1860), Sir Edward Hughes (1716-1794), Admiral Nicholas Haddock (1686-1746), Admiral Charles Saunders (c. 1716-1775), Admiral Augustus Keppel 1st Visc. Keppel (1725-1786), Admiral George Bowen (d. 1823), Sir Edward Northey (barrister), John Hugh Griffith, Richard Rodney Bligh (1737-1821), Admiral Robert Roddam (1719-1808), Admiral Samuel Hood, 1 st Visc. (1724-1816), Admiral Sir James Nicoll Morris (1763-1830), Admiral George Gayton (1724-1797), Admiral of the White Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan (1731-1804), Admiral Sir Home Popham (1762-1820), Admiral William Truscott (1734-1798), Admiral Robinson, General (later Field Marhsall) George Townshend, 1 st Marquess (1724-1807), John Borlase Warren (1753-1822) and others ( some damp-stained or worn, a number of commissions on vellum with signatures excised) Provenance: Estate of the Late Clive Richards CBE.