- Title
- Letter from Sir William Sidney Smith to Sir John Stuart
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- Identifier
- wrc06688
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- Date
- August 25 1806
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- People and Organizations
- ["Smith, W. Sidney (William Sidney), Sir, 1764-1840","Stuart, John"]
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- Subject
- ["Maritime"]
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- Abstract
- This item is part of the William Sidney Smith Papers. 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 funeral of the Duke of Wellington.
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- Source
- Sir William Sidney Smith papers, 1794-1862, MS 267, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University
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- Rights
- ["This material is in the public domain and may be freely used."]
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- Format
- ["Document"]
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- Format Genre
- ["correspondence"]
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- Time Span
- ["1840s and earlier"]
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- Repository
- ["Special Collections"]
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- Special Collections
- ["British History and Literature"]
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