Collection 1: Andrew Tink papers concerning Viscount Sydney, compiled 2005-2006

MLMSS 8719

sub-fonds

2005-2006

52651

8.32 metres of textual material (20 boxes)

Lord Sydney research material compiled by Andrew Tink between 2005 and 2006, including 5 manuscript drafts of Andrew Tink's unpublished biography of Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney together with 15 of the author's research notebooks and 28 lever arch files containing extensive copied extracts of historical records and references, including copies of Viscount Sydney's correspondence and speeches.

BOX 1
Sydney manuscript (M1) as at 28 April 2005
Sydney manuscript (M2) as at 6 September 2005
Sydney manuscript (M3) as at 11 January 2006

BOX 2
Sydney manuscript (M4) as at 28 March 2006
Sydney manuscript (M5) as at 26 June 2006

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Notebook A containing notes on: C. Hibbert, George III; W. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking People; G.S. Wood, The American Revolution; P. Macksey, The War for America; L. Colley, Britons; P. Langford, A Polite and Commercial People.
Notebook B containing notes on: P. Langford, A Polite and Commercial People; J. Norris, Shelburne and Reform; H. Manning, British Colonial Government After the American Revolution; Albermarle, Memoirs of Rockingham; A. Aspinall, The Cabinet Council 1785-1835.
Notebook C containing notes on: N. Macdonald, Canada 1763-1841 Immigration and Settlement; Stanhope, Life of Pitt; Namier and Brooke, Charles Townshend; V. Harlow, The Founding of the Second British Empire; T. Escott, Gentlemen of the House of Commons; A. Lambert, War at Sea in the Age of Sail; D. L. Keir, Constitutional History of Great Britain.
Notebook D containing notes on: D. L. Keir, Constitutional History of Great Britain, R.R. Nelson, The Home Office 1782-1801, J.S. Watson, The Reign of George III 1760-1815, H. Butterfield, George III and the Historians; R.J. White, The Age of George III; Winstanley, Lord Chatham and the Whig Opposition; N. W. Wraxall, Historical Memoirs of My Own Time.
Notebook E containing notes on: N. W. Wraxall, Historical Memoirs of My Own Time, Fitzmaurice, Life of Shelburne, Wraxell’s Posthumous Memoirs.
Notebook F containing notes on: Wraxell’s Posthumous Memoirs; Fortescue, Correspondence of George III; Harlow, Foundings of the Second British Empire.

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Notebook G containing notes on: Harlow, Foundings of the Second British Empire; R. Holmes, Redcoat; A. Frost, James Mario Matra; C. Ross, Correspondence of Cornwallis; H. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III.
Notebook H containing notes on: H. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III; H. Walpole, Journal of the Reign of George III; J. Brooke, The Chatham Administration 1766-1768; I. Christie, The End of The North’s Ministry, 1780-1782
Notebook I containing notes on: A. Aspinall, The Later Correspondence of George III; Pares, King George III and the Politicians; A. Frost, Convicts and Empire, A Naval Question; B. Connell, The Plains of Abraham; G. Martin, The Founding of Australia; A. Atkinson, The Europeans in Australia.
Notebook J containing notes on: A. Atkinson, The Europeans in Australia; L. Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III.
Notebook K containing notes on: Buckingham, Memoirs of Courts and Cabinets of George III; J. Ehrman, The Younger Pitt, Years of Acclaim; M. Bateson, Changes in the Ministry 1765-1767; Correspondence of Pitt and Rutland 1781-1787; Brougham, Sketches of Statesmen in the Time of George III; Earl Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris

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Notebook L containing notes on: J. Adolphus, History of England; C.V. Townshend, Military Life of George Townshend; C. Mowatt, East Florida as a British Province; G.N.D. Evans, Uncommon Obdurate, F.W. Des Barres; Will Bird, An Earl Must Have a Wife; R. Gore-Brown, Chancellor Thurlow; C. Matheson, The Life of Henry Dundas; Laprade, The Parliamentary Papers of John Robinson; C. Dozier, Nicaragua’s Mosquito Shore; Knittle, Early 18th Century Palastine Immigration; Anson, Grafton’s Biography.
Notebook M containing notes on: Anson, Grafton’s Biography; S. Ayling, The Elder Pitt; Chatham’s Correspondence; Owen, The Rise of the Pelham’s; Olson, The Radical Duke of Richmond; Gwynn, Henry Grattan and His Times.
Notebook N containing notes on: Speeches of Henry Grattan; Tomline, Life of Pitt; C. Ross, Correspondence of Cornwallis; Cronin, A History of Ireland; Donovan, Cape Breton at 200; Dobree, The Letters of George III; Carswell, The Porcupine Life of Algenon Sidney; Wade Martins, Turnip Townshend; Rosenheim, The Townshends of Raynham; The Memoirs and Speeches of Lord Waldegrave; Evans, Allegiance in America – The Case of the Loyalists; Bradley, Sir Guy Carleton; Fred Anderson, The Crucible of War.
Notebook O containing notes on: Fred Anderson, The Crucible of War; Reynolds, Guy Carleton A Biography; Moore, The Loyalists; Frost, A Global Reach of Empire.

BOX 6
FOLDER 1: Correspondence and emails with academics including Alan Atkinson, Brian Fletcher and Bruce Kercher. Correspondence with publishers and others.
FOLDER 2: Correspondence with the William Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan, handwritten notes of Lord Sydney’s correspondence held in the William Clements Library.

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FOLDER 3: Copies of Lord Sydney’s correspondence held by the Beinecke Library at Yale University
FOLDER 4: Copies of Thomas Townshend’s speeches in the House of Commons 1754-1780

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FOLDER 5: Copies of Thomas Townshend’s speeches in the House of Commons and Lord Sydney’s speeches in the House of Lords 1780-1785
FOLDER 6: Copies of Lord Sydney’s speeches in the House of Lords 1785-1798

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FOLDER 7: Copies of British Parliamentary debates relating to the American colonies
FOLDER 8: Copies of archival material relating to Canadian constitutional history

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FOLDER 9: Copied extracts from L.F.S. Upton, extracts from the diary and papers of Chief Justice William Smith 1784-1793; Anna L. Lingelbach, The Inception of the British Board of Trade; Edgar McInnis, Canada a Political and Social History; C.C. Western, Manuscripts of Viscount DeLisle; E.S. Wright, The Loyalists of New Brunswick; J.J. Duffy, Ethan Allan and his Kin; Mason Wade, The French Canadians 1760-1967; C.B. Fergusson, Uniacke’s Sketches of Cape Breton; P.H. Smith, Sir Guy Carleton, Peace Negotiations and the Evacuation of New York.
FOLDER 10: Copied extracts from M.D. Peterson, Thomas Jefferson writings; D. Twohig, The papers of George Washington; R.B. Morris, John Jay and the Winning of the Peace; H. A. Cushing, The writings of Samuel Adams; L.H. Butterfield, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams; S. F. Bemis, The American Secretaries of State

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FOLDER 11: Copied extracts from L.H. Butterfield, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams; L.V. Harcourt, Diaries and correspondence of George Rose; E. Smith, The Life of Sir Joseph Banks; Lord John Russell, Correspondence of Charles James Fox.
FOLDER 12: Copied extracts from Grattan, The Speeches of Henry Grattan; C. Ross, Correspondence of Marquis Cornwallis; Warden Flood, Memoirs and correspondence of Henry Flood.

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FOLDER 13: Copied extracts from E. A. Webb, The History of Chislehurst; Samuel Johnson, The False Alarm; Material relating to the use of Frognal Huose during WWI; Parliamentary papers relating to slavery; Catalogue of the East India Company Ships Journals 1600-1834.
FOLDER 14: Copied extracts from the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, The memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George III.

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FOLDER 15: Copied extracts from R. E. Prothero, Private Letters of Edward Gibbon; Lord John Russell, Correspondence of the Duke of Bedford; H.B. Carter, The Sheep and Wool Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks.
FOLDER 16: Copy of A. Sidney, Discourses concerning government.

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FOLDER 17: Copied extracts from John Duke of Rutland, correspondence between William Pitt and Charles Duke of Rutland
FOLDER 18: Copied extracts from Henry Brougham, Historical Sketches of Statesmen who flourished in the time of George III; W. J. Smith, The Grenville Papers; D.J. Mulvaney, Australians to 1788.

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FOLDER 19: contains copied documents from the Mitchell Library
FOLDER 20: Copied extracts from The Private Diary of General Haldimand; The Gentleman’s Magazine 1733-1762; copied documents from the Mitchell Library relating to the papers of Joseph Banks and William Bligh; copied documents from the Parliamentary Library

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FOLDER 21: Articles about Lord Sydney written by Andrew Tink and correspondence; articles relating to Oliver Goldsmith
FOLDER 22: Copied extracts from The Times of London 1785-1800

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FOLDER 23: Copied extracts from C. Ross, Correspondence of Marquis Cornwallis; J. Brooke, The Chatham Administration 1766-1768; I.R. Christie, The End of the North’s Ministry 1780-1782; A. Frost, Arthur Phillip, His Voyaging.
FOLDER 24: Copied extracts from A. Aspinall, The Later Correspondence of George III

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FOLDER 25: Copied extracts from Cabinet and Treasury documents related to the First Fleet sent to Botany Bay

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FOLDER 26: Contains copies of letters relating to the First Fleet

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FOLDER 27: Copies of articles from the Times and the Journals of the House of Commons and House of Lords relating to the madness of George III. Journals of the House of Commons and House of Lords relating to Botany Bay and the First Fleet.
FOLDER 28: Copies of miscellaneous letters.

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A detailed contents list prepared by Andrew Tink is available from the Manuscripts Section.