Letter book of Major-General Sir Paulus Irving., 1795-1801.
Scope and Contents
Copy letters, 1795-1801, mostly of Paulus Irving concerning military affairs in the Caribbean and Irving’s attempts to procure military and government posts (folios 1-81).
Copy letters, 1795, of Paulus Irving concerning military affairs in the Caribbean (folios 186 verso-140 recto).
Accounts, circa 1795, concerning expenses for the 47th Regiment of Foot (folios 187-188).
Dates
- Creation: 1795-1801.
Creator
- Irving, Sir Paulus Aemilius (army officer) (Creator, Person)
- Ricketts, George Poyntz (planter and Governor of Tobago and Barbados) (Recipient, Person)
- Stewart, Brigadier-General (army officer, St Lucia) (Recipient, Person)
- Ramsay, George, 9th Earl of Dalhousie (army officer and colonial governor) (Recipient, Person)
- Hope, John, 4th Earl of Hopetoun (army officer and politician) (Recipient, Person)
- Windham, William (politician) (Recipient, Person)
- Seton, Vice Admiral Sir James (naval officer and Governor of St Vincent and the Grenadines) (Recipient, Person)
- Leigh, Charles (British army officer, 1748-1815) (Recipient, Person)
- Hamilton, Henry (army officer and colonial governor) (Recipient, Person)
- Forbes, Gordon (commander of British forces, St Domingo) (Recipient, Person)
- Lindsay, William (lieutenant governor of Tobago) (Recipient, Person)
- Myers, Brigadier-General Sir William (British army officer) (Recipient, Person)
- Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville, 1742-1811 (Recipient, Person)
- Ryder, Dudley, 1st Earl of Harrowby (politician) (Recipient, Person)
- Steele, Thomas (Paymaster of the Forces) (Recipient, Person)
- Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (Commander-in-Chief of the British Army) (Recipient, Person)
- Cavendish-Bentinck, William, 3rd Duke of Portland (politician) (Recipient, Person)
- Huskisson, William (politician and financier) (Recipient, Person)
- Douglas, William, 4th Duke of Queensbury (nobleman) (Recipient, Person)
- Pitt, William, statesman, called Pitt the Younger, 1759–1806 (Recipient, Person)
- King, John (Permanent Under Secretary of State for the Home Department) (Recipient, Person)
- George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1762–1830 (Recipient, Person)
- Madden, Lieutenant-Colonel (British army office, Dominica) (Recipient, Person)
- Milnes, Robert (governor of Martinique, and Lower Canada) (Recipient, Person)
- Morgan, Sir Charles (Judge Advocate-General) (Recipient, Person)
- Mackenzie, Kenneth Francis (President of the Council of Grenada) (Recipient, Person)
- Nicholls, Brigadier-General (British army officer, Grenada, fl 1795) (Recipient, Person)
- Laforey, Admiral Sir John (naval officer) (Recipient, Person)
- Gordon, Captain Robert (army officer) (Recipient, Person)
- Ritchie, Lieutenant-colonel (army officer, 60th regiment, St. Vincent) (Recipient, Person)
- Athill, James (Member of the Antigua House of Assembly) (Recipient, Person)
- Byam, Edward (President of the Council of Antigua) (Recipient, Person)
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Extent
188 Leaves
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
186 folios. The volume is in two sections, one inverted against the other, each inverted against the other, each running from an end of the volume to the centre. The foliation is as follows:
Un-inverted entries, folios 1-81 recto;
Blank folios, 81 verso-140 recto;
Inverted entries, 186 verso-140 verso
Folios 50 and 123-124 are stubs.
Repository Details
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