Found 3 collections related to Canning, George, 1770-1827

The Burgess family papers document three generations of an English family involved in overseas commerce. Charles Henry Burgess (1806-1854) was the first British subject to export good directly from England to Persia. The papers contain correspondence, diaries, financial records, art work and other materials documenting the personal life and commercial activities of the family members. The papers provide abundant information on a rich variety of British, Anglo-Persian and Anglo-American topics. less

Precis books (2 vols.) of dispatches sent from America by Francis J. Jackson, John P. Morier, and Augustus J. Foster, addressed to George Canning, Earl Bathurst, and Marquis Wellesley. The dispatches, dated November 14, 1809 through December 21, 1811, refer to American politics; Congress; foreign relations; conferences with the President, Robert Smith, and James Monroe; war preparations; methods suggested by England for carrying on war; and other topics less