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2057 - WILTON HOUSE AND ESTATE ARCHIVES

1 - SURVEYS AND VALUATIONS

2 - ACCOUNTS

3 - RENTALS AND RENT ACCOUNTS

4 - MANORIAL

5 - ENCLOSURE

6 - PLANS AND MAPS

7 - OTHER ESTATE RECORDS

8 - WILTON HOUSE AND PARK

9 - CHARITIES

10 - FAMILY AND PERSONAL

11 - Other activities of the family

12 - Public and State papers of Sidney Herbert (1810-1861), Baron Herbert of Lea. Herbert was Secretary to the Admiralty, 1841-1845, Secretary at War 1845-1851, and Secretary of State for War 1852-1860. The papers are an important source for the reorganisation of the army, particulaly medical reforms and the campaign in the Crimea. Florence Nightingale was a frequent correspondent and she figures heavily in the series. Other subjects covered include campaigns in China, India in 1860, Ireland, Wellington College and the Royal medical School at Chatham. See also 2057/F4/50-71 for related correspondence. This list to 2057/F8/I-VI was made by Dr. James G. Provan, Associate Professor of History at Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, U.S.A. and completed in 1975. Parts VII to XI were listed in 1992, by Nicola Bailey, a student in the Wiltshire Record Office, when the following items in the original list were not found: 2057/F8/III/A/9c, 2057/F8/IV/A/8, 2057/F8/V/A/67-73, 2057/F8/V/A/140, 2057/F8/V/A/216, 2057/F8/V/B/393h, 2057/F8/V/C/71j. Index F8/I 1833-1846 F8/II 1847-1852 F8/III 1853-1855 F8/IV 1855-1858 F8/V 1859-1861 F8/VI Documents dated prior to 1833 or after 1861 F8/VII Additional miscellaneous papers F8/VIII Emigration to Australia; Family Colonisation Loan Society and Female Emigration Fund F8/IX Emigration to Australia; Female Emigration Fund F8/X Appointment of nurses to the army in the Crimea F8/XI Miscellaneous

1 - 1833-1846 Documents

2 - 1847-1852 DOCUMENTS

3 - 1853-1855 DOCUMENTS

4 - 1855-1859 Documents

1 - 1855 Documents

1 - Memorandum from Sir Francis Head to Sidney Herbert concerning a number of military matters: promotion by generals in the field, examination of officers, promotion from the ranks etc. March 21

2 - Papers presented to the Select Committee on the Army before Sebastopol. Statement of the medical schools in which the medical officers of the British civil hospital, Smyrna, have studied, and the nature of the certificates showing their respective qualifications. May 10. [Ed. The Select Committee was established by the Roebuck motion calling for an inquiry into the conduct of the war.]

3 - An abstract of the services performed by the transports in conveying troops, stores, etc. to the East from 9 February 1854 to 27 April 1855. Other returns included. May 1, 10

4 - Memorandum of the amount voted by Parliament, and authorised by the Treasury, and of the expenditure, on account of machinery and improvements in the Royal Laboratory, Woolwich, 1854-55 May 11

5 - Return of the number of recruits finally approved of for the cavalry, infantry and artillery, in each month, beginning 1 March 1854, distinguishing those who enlisted while enrolled in the militia, and the number who volunteered from the embodied militia. Other returns included. April 24-May 10.

6 - Correspondence between George Graham, registrar general, and Colonel Murdy, at the War Department, and between Graham and Benjamin Hawes, Deputy Secretary at War, relative to Graham’s suggestion for the registration of deaths in the British Army (a procedure already in practice in the Navy). Recommendation rejected by the War Office because of the additional burden it would place on commanding officers abroad. [See 2057/F8/IV/C/19]. December 1 1854-August 10 1855. No date.

7 - Design for a cavalry barrack, marked Paritur Pa Bello, submitted to the official committee on barrack accommodation for the army. Skeletal plans enclosed. September 29.

8 - Report of the proceedings at a public meeting of the Nightingale Fund, held in London [Ed. The Nightingale Fund was designed to give expression to a general feeling that the services of Miss Nightingale in the hospitals in the East demand the grateful recognition of the British people”] November 29.

9 - Copy of a pamphlet titled, A Remedy for the Evils that have Caused the Destruction of a Large Portion of the British Army before Sebastopol. Printed in Paris; author unknown. 1855. No Date.

10 - Copy of a pamphlet on the conduct of the war in the East: The Crimean Expedition. Memoir Addressed to the Government of H. M. the Emperor Napoleon III by a General Officer. Notation on the cover states that Belgian newspapers attributed the pamphlet to Prince Napoleon. 1855.

11 - Copy of a pamphlet titled Deuxième Mémoire Adressé au Government de sa Majesté Impériale l’Empereur Napoléon III sur l’Expédition en Crimeé et la Conduite, de la Guerre d’Orient par un Officer Générale May 1855. No date.

12 - Letter from Lord Panmure, Secretary for War to Sidney Herbert commenting on various War Office items, including asking Florence Nightingale to come back to England. August 1.

13 - Copies of questions asked of Sidney Herbert by the Select Committee inquiring into the conduct of the war in the East and his answers. No date.

14 - Letter from Lord Panmure, Secretary for War to Sidney Herbert relating news of military activities in the Crimea. May 28.

15 - Letter from Lord Panmure to Sidney Herbert indicating that Herbert might wish to return to London to defend himself against a censure motion being prepared by John Roebuck M.P. June 18.

16 - Letter from Lord Panmure to Sidney Herbert on the condition of the wounded in the Crimea, and the pressure of official business on his private affairs September (?) 26.

2 - 1856 Documents

3 - 1857 Documents

4 - 1858 Documents

5 - 1859 Documents

5 - 1859-1861 DOCUMENTS

6 - Emigration to the Colonies (Australia, New Zealand, The Cape and Canada) 1849-1854

7 - Emigration to Australia: Female Emigration Fund 1850-1853

8 - Appointment of Nurses

9 - Miscellaneous

13 - Deeds

14 - Legal

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