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The letter book contains some military orders and papers.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Much of the correspondence is administrative, concerning fitting out ships, obtaining stores, and matters of naval discipline, but also reflect the activities of the navy on the various stations where Admiral Graham served.From June 1829, Graham commanded successively the sloop ‘Philomel’ and HMS ‘Rattlesnake’. The latter ship served on the South American Station until September 1833, and the letters during this period concern the seizure of the British brig ‘Velocity’ by the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Much of the correspondence is administrative, concerning fitting out ships, obtaining stores, and matters of naval discipline, but also reflect the activities of the navy on the various stations where Admiral Graham served.From June 1829, Graham commanded successively the sloop ‘Philomel’ and HMS ‘Rattlesnake’. The latter ship served on the South American Station until September 1833, and the letters during this period concern the seizure of the British brig ‘Velocity’ by the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Much of the correspondence is administrative, concerning fitting out ships, obtaining stores, and matters of naval discipline, but also reflect the activities of the navy on the various stations where Admiral Graham served.From June 1829, Graham commanded successively the sloop ‘Philomel’ and HMS ‘Rattlesnake’. The latter ship served on the South American Station until September 1833, and the letters during this period concern the seizure of the British brig ‘Velocity’ by the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Much of the correspondence is administrative, concerning fitting out ships, obtaining stores, and matters of naval discipline, but also reflect the activities of the navy on the various stations where Admiral Graham served.From June 1829, Graham commanded successively the sloop ‘Philomel’ and HMS ‘Rattlesnake’. The latter ship served on the South American Station until September 1833, and the letters during this period concern the seizure of the British brig ‘Velocity’ by the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes correspondence and papers, 1810-1814, of and concerning Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Java.

Scope and Contents The first half of the volume contains Field-Marshal George Wade's orders to various officers concerning troop movements from his arrival in Edinburgh in June 1725 to September 1726, first in connection with the Malt Tax riots, then with movements into summer and winter quarters. This portion also includes records of two courts-martial for desertion, and of a reprimand of an absent officer. This is followed (folio 81) by thirteen letters from Wade to Henry Pelham, Secretary at War, and Lord...

Scope and Contents Much of the correspondence is administrative, concerning fitting out ships, obtaining stores, and matters of naval discipline, but also reflect the activities of the navy on the various stations where Admiral Graham served.From June 1829, Graham commanded successively the sloop ‘Philomel’ and HMS ‘Rattlesnake’. The latter ship served on the South American Station until September 1833, and the letters during this period concern the seizure of the British brig ‘Velocity’ by the...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Egypt, 1801 (folio 2). The papers include Alexander Cochrane's orders for the landing of the British Troops, 24 January (folio 2), but are mainly taken up with complaints of Cochrane to Lord Keith or regarding his conduct, relative to the lack of supplies for the sick (the action taken by Cochrane and other officers in this matter was regarded as a breach of discipline), to the omission of his name from the Parliamentary vote of thanks to the...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...

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The manuscript is undated, but the hand appears to date from the early 19th century. The leaves are watermarked 1794.

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The contents are as follows: Freight-list, 1844-1847, for the East India Station (MS.2425), 10 frames;

List, [1842-1847], of persons recommended to Sir Thomas John Cochrane, with remarks (MS.2426), 48 frames;

Reports, 1842-1846, of preparation for battle, on printed forms (MS.2463), 60 frames;

Reports, 1846-1847, of preparation for battle, on printed forms (MS.2464), 29 frames;

‘General and Standing Orders', 1842-1847 (MS.2465), 186 frames.

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The contents are as follows: Orders and memoranda, number 1, January 1842-February 1844 (MS.2475);

Orders and memoranda, number 2, March-19 October 1844 (MS.2476).

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The contents are as follows: Orders and memoranda, number 3, 17 October 1844-20 May 1846 (MS.2477);

Orders and memoranda, number 4, 25 May 1846-12 February 1847 (MS.2478);

Orders and memoranda, number 5, 12 February-August 1847 (MS.2479);

Return, on a printed form, showing the number and disposition of ships, 1844-1846 (MS.2480);

Deck logs and day's works, 1842 (MS.2481);

Deck logs and day's works, 1843-1845 (MS.2482).

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The contents are as follows: (i) Copies of memoranda, general orders, and letters, 1857-1858, of, and to, Sir Charles Elliot, extracted from two letter books, respecting naval operations in the Canton River and the storming of Canton during the Second China War (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous papers, 1867-70, undated, chiefly concerning life at Bonjedward House (Roxburghshire) (folio 34).

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes correspondence and papers, 1810-1814, of and concerning Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Java.