Napier, Charles James, Sir, Knight (General)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1782 - 1853
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Letter of General Sir Charles Napier to Jane Porter.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12104
Scope and Contents
Napier recalls experiences in the Penninsula War with Jane Porter`s brother Sir Robert Ker Porter, and mentions the effect of her works on himself and others in the army in Sind.
Dates:
1846.
Letters of various correspondents to Lord Byron and others concerning Greece and the Greek Committee., 1823-1824, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.43530
Scope and Contents
The letters have been arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent surname, with additional material at the end of the sequence.When first made available for consultation, before foliation, this manuscript included letters of Pellegrino Ghigi and Antonio Lega Zambelli. These have been moved to Ms.43531 during cataloguing.Letter possibly of Giuseppe Abbati to Lord Byron, with a poem dedicated to Byron, 1824: folios 1-4;Note possibly of David Baillie...
Dates:
1823-1824, undated.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of William Francis Patrick Napier., 1827-1859.
File
Identifier: MS.40869
Scope and Contents
Letters of William Napier to John Murray II and John Murray III. Letters of William Napier to John Murray II. The letters concern the negotiations over the copyright for, and the preparation and publication of, the first volume of Napier’s “History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of France from the year 1807 to the year 1814” (1828).The letters are arranged chronologically.1827-1828, 1831: folios 1-30.Letters of William Napier to...
Dates:
1827-1859.
Two articles on Charles Napier, with an article on William Napier, all by Whitwell Elwin and each extracted from the "Quarterly Review". The pages have been revised by Elwin., ? 1857-? 1864.
File
Identifier: MS.42209
Dates:
? 1857-? 1864.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning Whitwell Elwin.
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Manuscript, notebooks, proofs and copies of published articles by Whitwell Elwin, and relating to his work as an editor.
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