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Reference Number705:104
Hierarchy Browser Number4294
TitleLyttelton Collection - The Family and Estate Archives of the Viscounts Cobham of Hagley Hall
DescriptionFamily and estate papers of the Lyttelton family of Hagley Hall 16th to 20th centuries, including deeds, accounts, letters, diaries, royal letters, appointments to public offices. Among the papers are letter books of the 1st Baron while serving as Governor of Jamaica , letter books of of Admiral Thomas Smith while Commander-in-Chief in the Downs during the Seven Years War and papers of the 4th Baron concerning Canterbury in New Zealand. The autograph manuscript of the greater part of Thomas Habington's History of Worcestershire is also included.
Date[1588]-1998
Related Materialsee also BA4942, 5676, 5806, 6062, 7849 and 8249.
Access ConditionsOpen immediately unless legal closure periods
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