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Captains letters, 1810 (Manuscript)
1810-01-01 - ?
PRV/45
Treasury Chambers to Lordships of the Admiralty, (copy), 23 May 1809, arrangements made by Hon. A Cochrane Johnson with Spanish Government on financial issues (Manuscript)
1809-05-23
PRV/55/9
Admiralty Office to Purvis, Cadiz, 23 May 1809 (Manuscript)
1809-05-23
PRV/55/8
Wellington to Purvis, Cadiz, 10 November 1809, re wool export from Cadiz to England (Manuscript)
1809-11-10 - ?
PRV/56/8
Purvis' observations of state of affairs in the Mediterranean, April 1810 (Manuscript)
1810-04 - ?
PRV/58/1
Lord Collingwood to Mr Green, (copy), 14 November 1809, passport sent to Green permitting passage of Frenchmen (Manuscript)
1809-11-14 - ?
PRV/56/9
Prince Leopold, Gibraltar, to Purvis, 9 October 1808, requesting ships to take him to Sicily and escort the Sicilian ships from Gibraltar. (Manuscript)
1808-10-09 - ?
PRV/54/10
Extract, Intelligence report, Aranjuiz, 29 November 1808 (Manuscript)
1808-11-29
PRV/54/12
Rear- Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, HMS RENOWN at sea, 11 August 1800 to Purvis, HMS LONDON, outlining the line of battle. (Manuscript)
1800-08-11 - ?
PRV/49/13
General Morla, Cadiz, to Lord Collingwood, HMS OCEAN, (Copy), 12 June 1808 (Manuscript)
1808-06-12 - ?
PRV/53/14
To the Soldiers of the French Army in Portugal (unsigned), Roderigo, 13 July 1808 (Manuscript)
1808-07-13 - ?
PRV/54/2
George Canning, Foreign Office, 12 June 1808, letter (copy) to the Envoys of Asturias. (Manuscript)
1808-06-12 - ?
PRV/54/1
Translation of a gazette from Seville, defeat of French by Austrian Army, 5 June 1809 (Manuscript)
1809-06-05 - ?
PRV/55/13
Intercepted letter from a French Officer to a correspondent at Bayonne, Madrid, 21 August 1809 (Manuscript)
1809-08-21
PRV/55/15
General Cradock, Cadiz, to Purvis, 24 May 1809, enclosing copies of two letters from Lord Castlereagh. Regiment dispatches from Gibraltar to Lisbon (Manuscript)
1809-05-24
PRV/55/10
Translation, 29 October 1807, King of Spain, proclamation for arrest of his son and other conspirators. (Manuscript)
1807-10-29
PRV/51/12
Admiralty Office to Lord Collingwood, Off Cadiz, 23 September 1807, orders (Manuscript)
1807-09-23
PRV/51/7
Lord Strangford, Lisbon, 14 July 1807 to Purvis (Manuscript)
1807-07-14 - ?
PRV/51/6
Lord Strangford, Lisbon, to Purvis, 10 October 1807, Secret, informing Purvis that Portugal is likely to close its ports against England (Manuscript)
1807-10-10 - ?
PRV/51/8
Charter Party, 25 November 1809 (Manuscript)
1809-11-25
PRV/56/10
"Some ideas relative to bringing a Fleet into action with the greatest advantage" 1800. Purvis (Manuscript)
1800 - ?
PRV/49/10
Captain Hallowell to Purvis, November 1797, re French and Spanish prisoners sent to Teneriffe. (Manuscript)
1797-11 - ?
PRV/49/6
Transport Office to Purvis, Commander of HMS LONDON, 28 November 1799. Requesting a French prisoner, M. St Amand, be brought over from the Royal Oak Prison Ship at Portsmouth to teach French to some gentlemen on board the LONDON (Manuscript)
1799-11-28
PRV/49/9
Admiralty to Purvis, HMS ROYAL GEORGE, Torbay, 7 July 1797. Suppression of the Fleet Mutiny at the Nore (12 May- 13 June), 1797. (Manuscript)
1797-07-07 - ?
PRV/49/5
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