Organization: Great Britain. Royal Navy - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 1 box and 0.25 linear feet
Abstract:: Richard Hanmer Bunbury was a captain in the British Royal Navy and spent sixteen years in Australia. His father was Lt. General Sir Henry Bunbury. The collection contains 45 letters Richard Hanmer Bunbury wrote to Sir Henry Bunbury from 1827 to 1839. The letters contain accounts of naval life and duties, as well as some battles. The collection also includes a letter to one of Richard's brothers, five of his friends, a letter of commendation, his marriage certificate, and a certificate awarded for the rescue of a man who fell overboard.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Extent:: 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of 150 letters (1870-1880) by Major C. P. Heaslop to his wife describing his service in the Royal Marine Artillery while stationed primarily in the Mediterranean.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Extent:: 2 boxes and 1.75 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of journals/logs and photograph albums of Royal Navy Midshipman Douglas C. Tudor, later a lieutenant.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Extent:: 5 boxes
Abstract:: The John Elphinston Papers Relating to the Russo-Turkish War consists of log books, letter books, letters, and documents.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Extent:: 2 boxes, 2 items, and 36 volumes
Abstract:: Consists of over 2,000 autograph items of prominent English and European figures from the 16th to the mid-19th centuries compiled by the English collector John Wild.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Extent:: 3 boxes and 3.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of papers of Captain John Matthews (d. 1798), a British naval officer involved in the transatlantic commerce in enslaved Africans in Sierra Leone in the 1780s and 1790s. Four detailed journals document Matthews's employment as an agent for the African Company of Merchants between 1785 and 1787; as captain of the HMS Vulcan and the HMS Courageux in the Mediterranean Sea during the 1793 campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars; and as captain of the HMS Maidstone, a British patrol ship monitoring trade in Sierra Leone and the Caribbean in 1797 and 1798. Also present are watercolor illustrations of colonial forts along the West African coast and several personal and family documents of John Matthews, including an anti-abolitionist deposition Matthews gave regarding the slave trade.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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