Collection of letters and documents, pertaining to the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with letters and documents signed by or on behalf of Napoleonic marshals, British generals, allied monarchs and others, including Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (group, comprising an autograph letter signed as "Arthur Wellesley", to the Irish Office, 1807, and to an unnamed peer whom he cannot meet, 1827); Sir John Moore (to General Fox, from Chatham Barracks, discussing in 1803 the pension owing to a veteran of his Corsica campaign and suggesting he consult with [Hudson] Lowe); Joachim Murat (signed docket in support of a petition for Mlle Sérare, 7 thermidor an 8 [25 July 1800]); Sir John Stuart (to FM the Duke of York, asking for command of either the 20th and 58th Regiment which had served under him in his victory at Calabria, Gibraltar, 1808); John Hope, afterwards Earl of Hopetoun (to the Secretary at War, as C-n-C Portsmouth, about deserters trying to escape to Ireland in 1805); General Sir John Hope; Lord FitzRoy Somerset, Lord Raglan (as Military Secretary to Wellington, Freneda, 28 February 1813, and from the Crimea, 25 May 1855); Lord William Bentinck (as envoy to the Two Sicilies and C-n-C Mediterranean, to Colonel Bunbury, casting aspersions on the Sicilian military character, 1813, and a long letter to his colleague in India and acting successor as Governor-General, Sir Charles Metcalfe, 1834); Sir George Pollock (to his son Frederick, 1828); Joseph Bonaparte as King of Spain (regarding guard officers' pay, 1813, with a later letter written from London); William IV; Frederick Duke of York (from Antwerp, 1793); Edward Duke of Kent (commanding HM forces Nova Scotia, 1798); Vicomte de Rochambeau, the younger (to the Ministère de la Marine, requesting ships be sent to Barbados, 1793); Maria Carolina of Naples (autograph letter signed "Charlotte", complaining that "les Circonstances de l'Europe et l'imensite de depenses necessiteuses deverant toujours plus urgente", 1794); Ferdinand IV of Naples and I of Two Sicilies (letter signed to the Pope, urging an ecclesiastic appointment, 1769); Jean Reynier (1796); Anne-Charles Le Brun, Colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Hussars and sometime ADC to Napoleon; Jean-Baptiste Girard (plus letter recording its purchase by the collector A.M. Broadley from Noël Charavay for 25 francs in 1913); Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Duke of Dalmatia (counter-signature on a handsome commission for a cavalry colonel bearing Louis XVIII's stamped signature, 1815, and an autograph letter, 1825); Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (October 1814); Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon (to his commander Marshal Mortier, Duke of Treviso, Lille, 21 January 1815); Louis XVIII (autograph docket on a letter recalling an event of 1772), guards, dust-staining and other wear, 1769-1855