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Correspondence, despatches, commissions [textual record]

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Date:

1799-1859.

Reference:

MG24-A3

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

109718

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Sir Howard Douglas and family collection

Correspondence, despatches, commissions
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Date(s):

1799-1859.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

30 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of correspondence, despatches and related papers of Sir Howard Douglas, 1816-1859, 11 cm, volume 2, arranged chronologically, received in 1927; letterbooks of the civil government of New Brunswick under Sir Howard Douglas which contain correspondence at the Hague relating to the boundary settlement, 1824-1830, 9 cm, volume 3 and 4, received in 1931; Sir Howard Douglas' account of the wreck of Phyllis (H.M. transport) off the coast of Newfoundland, photocopy, 1795, 106 pages, volume 5, copied in 1928 from the original in the possession of Leo Harvey.

Series also consists of commissions of Sir Howard Douglas, 1799-1821 and a patent, 1811, 20 pages; journals and accounts of events in Spain, 1811-1812, ca. 300 pages; correspondence from Spanish officials and despatches and correspondence with British officials, 1811-14, 1817, 140 pages; an address from the inhabitants of Fredericton, ca. 1828, commissions, 1848, 4 pages in vertical storage; a manuscript on artillery, n.d., 239 pages, volume 6. Received in 1972.

This series also contains an address to Sir Howard Douglas, upon his departure from New Brunswick, from the magistrates, merchants, and other inhabitants of Fredericton, N.B., 1828.

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Address to Sir Howard Douglas is located in horizontal storage, container 8.

Source:

Private

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MG24-A3
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG24 A 3]

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2--4;

[Consultation 90 Open]

6;

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8;

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