Recherche dans la collection - Observations on my voyage to Canada from Boston [textual record]. /by John Nelson

Documents created in: Boston, Massachusetts.

The Stowe Manuscripts formed part of the collection of manuscripts made by the Grenville family at Stowe, their Buckinghamshire family seat. When Richard Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1797-1861), was forced to sell his library in 1849, it was purchased by the 4th Earl of Ashburnham, whose son Bertram, 5th Earl of Ashburnham (1840-1913), sold it to the nation in 1883. The part of the manuscript collection that went to the British Library is kept as a separate collection, catalogued as Stowe MSS. 1-1085. Stowe MSS. 163 is a collection of miscellaneous historical, topographical, and other papers, 1360-1807. In 1914, the National Archives of Canada transcribed a small excerpt from the collection (item No. 23, ff. 172-173v), which is of Canadian interest.

Originals with the British Library, London, England.