Read England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton Online
Authors: Kate Williams
Tags: #Biographies & Memoirs, #Historical, #Europe, #Great Britain, #Leaders & Notable People, #Military, #Political, #History, #England, #Ireland, #Military & Wars, #Professionals & Academics, #Military & Spies
Newspapers and Magazines
La Belle Assemblée
Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine
Bon Ton Magazine
The Carlton House Magazine
Coventry Mercury
Covent Garden Journal
European Magazine
Gentleman's Magazine
Lady's Magazine
Morning Chronicle
Morning Herald
Morning Post
The Morning Post and Gazeteer
The Naval Chronicle
Oracle and Daily Advertiser
The Sun
The Times
Town and Country Magazine
Manuscript Sources
I have been fortunate enough to find many previously unused manuscripts, including eight hundred unpublished letters in the Monmouth archives, many in the over 150 volumes in the British Library, and volumes in the National Maritime Museum. I also found hundreds of manuscripts in collections in the United States, many in the Well-come Library, in archives across the country, and in private collections all over the world.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Osborn MS, William Hayley to Emma Hamilton and Sarah Nelson to Emma Emma Hamilton's songbooks
Bodleian Library
Beckford MS
Hamilton Notebooks (MS Eng. hist g. 3-16)
British Library
Egerton:
1617-1620, Queen of Naples to Lady Hamilton
1614-23, Hamilton-Nelson papers
2240-41, will and dying request
2634-37, Hamilton's Letters to Secretaries of State, 1764-1781
2641, Letters to Sir William Hamilton
Additional:
38361, Works at Milford
40714—15, Hamilton-Greville Papers
41197-41200, Sir William's Correspondence and Papers, 1761-1803
42069-71, Sir William's Correspondence and Papers, 1764—1803
59031, Sir William and from Lord Grenville, 1796-1802
31166, St. Vincent Papers
34902-34992, Nelson Papers, in particular:
34933-36, Official Correspondence 1781-1799
34938-40, St. Vincent to Nelson,
34966-68, Private Journals, 1803-1805
34988, Nelson Family Correspondence 35194, Bridport Papers,
3782, John Scott to Lady Hamilton and Mrs Cadogan 34724, Miscellaneous letters 44584, ff 31, 32, Nelson to Horatia 34989, ff 1, 3, 4, 12-32, et al., Nelson to Emma 34988, ff 123-376, Letters to and from his wife Althorp Papers Foster MS, Add MS 4159, Journal of Lady Elizabeth Foster
Coutts Archives
Queensberry Papers
Flintshire Record Office
Hawarden Papers, John Glynne Papers
Hampshire Record Office
Melesina Trench to Richard Trench, 1808-1809, 23M93/28/63, 23M93/28/88, 23M93/ 28/105. Journal of Melesina Trench
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Joseph Husband Collection of Nelson and Hamilton Papers, pf MS Eng 196.5 Lowell Collection, fmS Lowell 10
Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Nelson Papers Hamilton-Greville Papers
Leicester Record Office
Elizabeth Stanhope to Dr. Vaughan, Ramsgate, 17 August 1804
London Metropolitan Archives
Foundling Hospital Records, Letter from Emma
National Library of Wales
John Glynne Papers, papers relating to Catherine Hamilton's estate
National Library of Scotland
Henry Aston Barker, MS 9647
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Bridport Papers (BRP) Alexander Davison Collection (DAV) Gilbert Elliot papers (ELL) Girdlestone Papers (GIR) William Hamilton Papers (HML) John Jervis (JER) Keith Papers (KEI) Matcham Papers (MAM) Nelson-Ward Papers (NWD)
Phillips-Croker Collection (PHL and CRK)
Trafalgar House Collection (TRA)
Xerox of Spiro Collection of Nelson Letters (XAGC)
Nelson Museum Monmouth
Nelson Manuscripts (E series)
Norfolk Record Office
Bradenham Papers
Parish Registers
Marylebone Parish Church St. Mary the Virgin, Merton Registers of the Diocese of Chester Registers of the Diocese of Ness Hawarden Church
Public Record Office, London
Foreign Office 70/1-13, Sir William Hamilton to Secretaries of State, 1780-1800
State Papers, TS 317-335
Records of the King's Bench Prison
Earl Nelson Deposition
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London
Records and Register
University of Birmingham Special Collections
Germain Lavie to George Rose, 1 April 1809, MS21/2/70
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Romney Papers
Warwickshire Record Office
Plymouth Papers
Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine, London
Beatty and Hamilton Manuscripts
Westminster Archive, London
Broadley Collection
West Sussex Record Office
Uppark MS and record books
Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office
Ailesbury Papers
Secondary Works
This is a very select secondary bibliography.
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Mary Hamilton, Afterwards Mrs. John Dickenson, at Court and at Home, from Letters and Diaries, 1756-1816.
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Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von.
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