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Sutcliffe-Smith Collection


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 SUT

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Sutcliffe-Smith Collection

Date(s): [1787-1808]

Level of description: Collection

Extent:

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letters and orders from Horatio Nelson and others to various correspondents including Emma Hamilton, 4 May 1795-8 Dec 1806, also engravings mostly of Nelson, of VICTORY and of memorial in St Paul's. Letters from Nelson, Emma Hamilton and others, 29 May 1787-3 Jun 1808, also advertisements, engravings and drawings, mainly of Emma in her 'attitudes', also Nelson, William Hamilton, Greville and others, and scenes of Merton.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website . See full list in printed catalogue for details

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Oct 2011.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815) | Wars (events)
Naval affairs | Military affairs | Military science | Social sciences

Personal names
Hamilton | Emma | ?1761-1815 | nee Lyon | 2nd wife of Sir William Hamilton
Nelson | Horatio | 1758-1805 | 1st Viscount Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe | Vice-Admiral

Corporate names

Places