211 - BRITISH NAVAL AND OTHER HISTORY: A LARGE QUANTITY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY CORRESPONDENCE, ADMIRALTY AND OTHER DOCUMENTS

BRITISH NAVAL AND OTHER HISTORY: A LARGE QUANTITY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY CORRESPONDENCE, ADMIRALTY AND OTHER DOCUMENTS approximately 270 letters and documents comprising Admiral Collingwood (7pp. to Captain Boyle “My dear Boyle”, 22 Oct. 1809, off Cape Sebastian); Sir William Sidney Smith (3pp., London, 5 Feb. 1802); Document about agreeing to share prize money signed by Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy (1769-1839) and Admiral Samuel Sutton and witnessed by Admiral Edward Berry; copy of a document marked “Secret”, signed by Admiral George Cockburn, circa 1811, with a change of signal codes due to the belief that “the Enemy are in possession of the Admiralty Signal Books, and to prevent their knowing such of His Majesty’s ships upon the North American Station”; memo 8 March 1809 signed by Admiral Collingwood; power of attorney written in 1812 by Thomas Lamb, shipmaster and late Commander of the City of London of the Port of Leith, now a prisoner of war at the Fortress of Bitche in France; and other letters and documents signed by Captain George William Manby FRS (1765-1854); Admiral Sir William Parker (1781-1866, autograph letter to Captain Hall or the senior officer of H.M. Ships at Constantinople, on board H.M.S. Queen in the Dardanelles, 2 November 1849 regarding urgent repairs to ships, 3pp., folio; Admiral Northesk (1756-1831); Admiral George Campbell (1759-1821, letter signed, 23 May 1828); Admiral Lord Keith (letter signed, 1801), Admiral Edmund Hornby (letter signed 1813), Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren (1753-1807, St Petersburg, 1804), Sir Edward Harvey (1783-1865) on board H.M.S. Saint George, August 15 th 1808, Admiral Sir John Gordon Sinclair (1790-1863), Admiral Sir Charles Bullen (1769-1853, letter from the Royal Dock Yard, 19 th Aug. 1836), James Murray Hadden (1757-1817, surveyor-general of the ordnance), Admiral William Sidney Smith (1764-1840), Admiral Sir Lewis Anthony Beaumont (1847-1922, Arctic Explorer), Sir Philip Broke (1776-1841), Sir Charles Napier (1782-1853), John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), Charles Wood 1 st Viscount Halifax (1800-1885), Admiral Samuel Hood 1 st Viscount Hood (1724-1816, letter written at the age of 92 in 1815), Admiral Henry Keppel (1809-1904), Sir William Beatty (d. 1842, surgeon on board H.M.S. Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar), Admiral Codrington (1770-1851), Lieut. James Thomas Yates, autograph letter to Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith regarding longitude, 6 March 1829; manuscript “Journal of the proceedings of His Majestie’s Ship Ambuscade, commanded by the Hon. John Colville […] 13 th November 1801 ending 27 September 1802” 72pp, folio; 12 “Navy Five per Cent. Annuities” share certificates (early 1800s), collection of Naval orders, 11 ninteenth-century Admiralty Commissions on vellum, plus a few 20th-century letters (A lot) Provenance: Estate of the Late Clive Richards CBE.