Box 1
Container
Contains 3 Collections and/or Records:
2 autographed letters from W. S. Smith to Sir John Stuart, 1806
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, watercolor sketches, printed documents document the career and family of Sir William Sidney Smith. The bulk of the letters concern Smith's brother, John Spencer Smith, who was British ambassador to the Porte at Constantinople in the early 1790s. Correspondents include Robert Liston, British Minister to the United States. Also included is a genealogy of the Smith family, a battle order issued by Smith aboard HMS Tigre during the siege at Acre in 1799, and an invitation to the...
Dates:
1794 - 1862
Orders signed from W. S. Smith to Captain Prowse, Dec. 5, 1806
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, watercolor sketches, printed documents document the career and family of Sir William Sidney Smith. The bulk of the letters concern Smith's brother, John Spencer Smith, who was British ambassador to the Porte at Constantinople in the early 1790s. Correspondents include Robert Liston, British Minister to the United States. Also included is a genealogy of the Smith family, a battle order issued by Smith aboard HMS Tigre during the siege at Acre in 1799, and an invitation to the...
Dates:
1794 - 1862
Times description of the Battle of Trafalgar, Nov. 7, 1805
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, watercolor sketches, printed documents document the career and family of Sir William Sidney Smith. The bulk of the letters concern Smith's brother, John Spencer Smith, who was British ambassador to the Porte at Constantinople in the early 1790s. Correspondents include Robert Liston, British Minister to the United States. Also included is a genealogy of the Smith family, a battle order issued by Smith aboard HMS Tigre during the siege at Acre in 1799, and an invitation to the...
Dates:
1794 - 1862