Phillipps-Cole
The collection forms part of the Phillipps collection purchased by Sir James Caird in 1946. Nine of the fifteen volumes contain routine naval administrative papers, which include two volumes on gunnery. The first, 1690 to 1778, is composed of demands for, and issues of, gunners' stores; the second gives details on the expenditure of gunners' stores in certain ships between 1805 and 1806. The remaining six volumes make up a miscellaneous autograph collection, in which are about thirty letters, 1807 to 1820, from Lady Frances Nelson (1758-1831) relating to her financial and legal affairs.
Administrative / biographical background
Robert Cole (d.1866?), a solicitor, was one of the main manuscript collectors of the nineteenth century. Some of his own correspondence is bound in with the papers.
Administrative / biographical background
Robert Cole (d.1866?), a solicitor, was one of the main manuscript collectors of the nineteenth century. Some of his own correspondence is bound in with the papers.
Record Details
| Item reference: | RCL; GB 0064 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Artificial collections previously assembled |
| Level: | COLLECTION |
| Extent: | Overall: 61 cm |
| Creator: | Phillipps-Cole |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- Naval Administration: expense of gunner's stores at the battle of Trafalgar, 1805 (Manuscript) (RCL/5)
- Navy Board Warrants and papers connected with naval pay including some powers of attorney and a few Nelson items, 18th and 19th centuries (Manuscript) (RCL/6)
- Orders from Navy Board and Commanders-in-chief including Pellow, Duckworth, Calder and Keith. (Manuscript) (RCL/7)
- Admiralty orders, commander-in-chief's orders and demands for stores and accounts of expense of gunner's stores. (Manuscript) (RCL/8)
- This volume includes much of Cole's own correspondence as well as documents from Sir Nicholas Harris Nicholas, Sir William Beatty, Mrs. Horatia Ward, Jeafferson Miles and Page Nicol Scott. (Manuscript) (RCL/9)
- Naval autographs: mixture of collector's items, naval officers of the early nineteenth century and Cole's correspondence c.1841, also some demands for gunner's stores, n.d. (Manuscript) (RCL/10)
- Naval officers letters on routine matters, some letters by Thomas Bolton, Nelson's brother-in-law, c.1800-40 (Manuscript) (RCL/11)
- Lady Nelson, widow of Admiral Lord Nelson, letters from Lady Nelson to her agent March & Co., London, about financial affairs, 1807-20 (Manuscript) (RCL/12)
- Naval officers letter - a mixed collection mostly on legal or financial topics - 1790-1830 (Manuscript) (RCL/13)
- Mixed collection of early 19th century letters - mostly routine matters of a personal nature - written by naval officers, some letters written by Lady Nelson, 1819-20. (Manuscript) (RCL/14)
- Demands for and issues of gunners' stores circa 1690-1750, mostly for use by the Navy. (Manuscript) (RCL/15)