Catalogue description Andrew Snape Douglas: Papers

A collection of the correspondence of Andrew Snape Douglas as British chargé d'affaires at Palermo, 1811 and 1813-1814, and at Naples, 1816-1818 and 1822.

The despatches are addressed to the foreign secretaries of the day, Marquess Wellesley (1809-1812) and Viscount Castlereagh (1813-1822).

The papers include correspondence in the form of drafts and holographs with British army commanders in Sicily and governors of Malta and the Ionian Islands, and with Sicilian and Neapolitan ministers, notably the Marquis Circello who was foreign minister at Palmermo and later at Naples for all the period covered by the papers except for the year 1814 when Prince Villafranca held this office.

The papers present a continuous narrative of affairs in southern Italian history during the closing years and the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars.

See

Douglas's official correspondence for these periods FO 70

Records of the Southern Dept of the Foreign Office FO 165

Andrew Snape Douglas, 1869

of Ditcham Park, Petersfield in 1920.

C J P CaveCaptain, 1920-1920 of Ditcham Park, Petersfield in 1920.