Foreign Office and predecessors: Miscellaneous Private Collections

These series consists of miscellaneous private collections.

Includes:

• A contemporary copy, in Italian, of the renewal of the English capitulations by Murad IV, Sultan of Turkey, 1636, presented to the Foreign Office by M Joannes Gennadius, sometime Greek envoy in London, in September 1931
• The treaty of peace between two chieftains of the Pelew Islands, 1883, presented by the nephew of Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, in March 1932
• Correspondence, papers and accounts of Lt Col the Hon J H Caradoc, military commissioner with the Spanish army operating in the Basque provinces, May 1834 to February 1835, presented by Miss C I Meade in 1932
• Correspondence (mainly private) and papers of Lord Whitworth, ambassador in France, May 1802 to June 1803, purchased by the Foreign Office in July 1932; accounts of fees received and of disbursements, September 1710 to December 1712, during the tenure of office by H St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, Secretary of State, transferred by the Foreign Office in December 1932
• Documents relating to the mission of John Backhouse, Under Secretary of State, to Don Carlos, Conde de Molina, at Portsmouth in June 1834, presented to the Foreign Office in 1939 by the Rev Frederick Lee Sheppard, a great grandson of Backhouse
• Correspondence and papers (mostly printed) relating to the mission of F T Piggott to Rome to discuss a proposed convention for the mutual execution of legal judgements, 1884 to 1887, presented to the Foreign Office in 1939 by Mr H Wheeler; and a letter from H B M agent and consul general at Jassy to H S H the Prince Regnant of Moldavia, 1861
• A letter book of despatches from Henry (later Sir Henry) H W Williams Wynn, envoy to Würtemburg, 1823 to 1824, and to Denmark 1824 to 1853, to successive secretaries of state, 1823 to 1831.

Topics

International

Treaties and alliances

Europe and Russia

Navy

Middle East

Operations, battles and campaigns

Personal and family papers