- Creator
- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
- Call number
- MssCol 3280
- Physical description
- .1 linear feet (1 folder)
- Preferred Citation
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington letters and documents, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
The collection consists chiefly of letters, most in the hand of soldier and statesman Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, briefly acknowledging correspondence or confirming engagements. A clipped signature and autograph address leaf are included. Also present are a letter from John H. Pelly to Wellington enclosing copies of a document, 1841; a document written by the Knight of Kerry, 1866, certifying the text of a letter written by Wellington under the name of Wesley in 1796; and a manuscript ancestral chart of the Duke, undated.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Purchased by the Lenox Library from the estate of George Bancroft, 1893; donated by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1899, as part of the Ford collection; purchased from Stan. V. Henkels, 1921
Processing information
Compiled by Susan P. Waide, 2015
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Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328