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Wellesley, Richard Colley, (1760-1842), Marquess Wellesley, statesman

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Surname: Wellesley
Forenames: Richard Colley
Gender: Male
Date: 1760-1842
Title: Marquess Wellesley
Biography: ODNB link for Wellesley, Richard Colley (1760-1842) Marquess Wellesley, statesman
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P134581 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P30105 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Richard Colley Wellesley
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
corresp and papers
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 12564-13915, 37274-318, 37414-16, 49979-92, 51728
See HMC Private papers of British diplomats 1782-1900, 1985
2
1799-1813: corresp, despatches and papers rel to India
British Library: Asian and African Studies
Home misc series
3
1822-29: draft despatches, memoranda etc 1833-34: letter book
National Library of Ireland
MSS 322-23
4
1798-1810: despatches and minutes
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur D 623
See Annual Report 1963-64
5
1797-1816: family and misc corresp and papers
University of Southampton Library
MS 63
NRA 30631

See Guide, 1992
6
1802, 1810-11: letter book and copies of letters received
The National Archives
FO 519
7
1809-11: letterbooks rel to Turkey and Persia
Huntington Library
See Guide 1982
8
1798-20: misc corresp (35 items)
Duke University: William R Perkins Library
18H
NRA 24154 Richard Wellesley

See R Morriss, Guide to British Naval Papers in North America (1994)
9
1839-41: letters to Lord Anglesey
Collection held privately: enquiries to Bangor University, Archives and Special Collections
NRA 10 Paget
10
1801-02: corresp with Sir David Baird
National War Museum of Scotland
NRA 27982 Baird
11
1790-1813: corresp with Scrope Bernard
Buckinghamshire Archives
D/SB
NRA 7343
12
corresp with Lord Brougham
London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
See R Irwin and R Staveley, The libraries of London, 1964
13
1798-1826: corresp with George Canning (251 items)
The Morgan Library
See NUC MS 84-2140
14
1803-05: corresp with Lord Castlereagh
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
D3030
NRA 12865 Stewart
15
c1797-1805: corresp with Clive family
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
Clive
NRA 23682 Clive
16
1800: letters to 2nd Lord Clive
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
1990 deposit
NRA 20151 Herbert
17
1800-09: letters to Thomas Cockburn
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur C 165
18
1798-1800: corresp with Lord Cornwallis
The National Archives
PRO 30/11
19
1821-23: corresp with Lord Donoughmore
Trinity College Dublin
Donoughmore
NRA 22331 Hely-Hutchinson
20
c1797-1805: letters (151) to Henry Dundas
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD51
NRA 10188 Dundas
21
1797-1802: corresp with Henry Dundas
University of Southampton Library
MS 61
NRA 20085
22
1799-1800: corresp with Henry Dundas
University of Minnesota: Ames Library of South Asia
See microfilm in India Office L (reel 607)
23
1799-1811: letters (59) to Henry and Robert Dundas
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
See Accessions to Repositories, 1973
24
1800-02: letters to Lord Elgin
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRAS3955
NRA 26223 Bruce
25
letters to George III
Royal Archives
See Later Correspondence of George III, ed AAspinall, 5 vols 1962-70
26
1815-34: corresp with Henry Goulburn
Surrey History Centre
319
NRA 777
27
1782-1828: corresp with Lord Grenville
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 58910-13
28
1796-1828: corresp with Lord Grenville
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 70927-8
See Annual Return 1992
29
1812-35: letters (140) to 2nd Earl Grey
Durham University Library and Collections
Grey of Howick collection
NRA 6228 Grey
30
1797-1805: letters to Lord Hobart
Buckinghamshire Archives
D/MH
NRA 1
31
1795-1826: letters to Lord Hobart and from 1st Marquess Camden
Kent History and Library Centre
U840/C204, 267
NRA 8410
32
1799-1812: corresp with Sir Harford Jones
Huntington Library
mssHJ 1-88
NRA 23683 Kentchurch Court
33
1823-26: letters to Lord Liverpool
British Library, Manuscript Collections
loan 72
NRA 21672
34
1792-1826: corresp with 1st and 2nd Earls of Liverpool
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 38103
35
1822-28: letters to Sir Robert Peel
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 40324
36
1809-12: corresp with Spencer Perceval
Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development
NRA 8587 Holland

See HMC corresp file - Holland, David
37
1790-1805: letters to William Pitt
Kent History and Library Centre
U1590/S5/O4/8
NRA 25095
38
letters (56) to William Pitt
The National Archives
PRO30/8
39
1793-1802: corresp with Lord Sidmouth
Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)
152M
NRA 8747 Addington
40
c1820-41: letters to Lady Wellesley
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society
DD5, 192
NRA 12923 Dukes Leeds
41
1803-05, 1834-42: corresp with Duke of Wellington
University of Southampton Library
MS 61
NRA 20085
42
1803: misc corresp
Liverpool Record Office
NRA 26509 Walton township