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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

5 - 1859-1861 DOCUMENTS

1 - 1859 Documents

2 - 1860 Documents

3 - 1861 Documents

4 - Documents Dated Prior to 1833 or After 1861

1 - Printed pamphlet issued in the name of George III relative to orders and regulations for the better ordering of Our Army, and for improving the condition of Non-commissioned Officers and Soldiers, and for fixing the Pensions, Allowances and Relief to which Non-commissioned Officers and Soldiers are allowed to become entitled on their Discharge, by reason of the Expiration of certain Periods of Service, or as invalid, disabled, or wounded. 7 October.

2 - Memorandum showing the periods during which the disembodied militia of Great Britain trained in 1831. No date.

3 - Statement showing the expense of the ballot and enrolment of the regular militia of Great Britain in the year 1831, and also showing the quota of each county, the number of men enrolled and the number of subdivisions of each county. No date.

4 - Printed instructions To Paymasters of Regiments, Battalions, or Corps of Militia, on being assembled for Training and Exercise. Issued by the War Office. 27 January.

5 - Abstract of the expenditure for Fitzwilliam Estates Office, Dublin. 26 March 1867.

6 - Printed extracts from Florence Nightingale’s letters to Sidney Herbert while in the Crimea. Permission had been requested to use the letters in Lord Stanmore’s two-volume biography of Sidney Herbert. Enclosed note from Miss Nightingale to Lady Herbert readily sanctioning the use of the letters. 23 December.

7 - Printed extracts of correspondence from William E. Gladstone to Sidney Herbert covering 1855-56-57. Material was for use in Lord Stanmore’s biography of Sidney Herbert. No date.

8 - Printed pamphlet titled Sidney Herbert, First Baron Herbert of Lea. Reprinted by permission from Fraser’s Magazine. 1862. No date.

9 - Printed pamphlet titled Army Sanitary Administration, and Its Reform under the Late Lord Herbert by Florence Nightingale. The pamphlet is based upon a paper read by Miss Nightingale at the London meeting of the Congres de Benfaisance. June 1862. No date.

10 - Report on Measures Adopted for Sanitary Improvements in India, from June 1872 to June 1873; together with Abstracts of Sanitary Reports for 1871, Forwarded from Bengal, Madras and Bombay. Printed by order of the Secretary of State for India in Council. 1873. Signature on cover “Florence Nightingale Feb. 74”.

11 - Correspondence relating to relations between the British Government and its continental allies concerning movements against Napoleon 1805-1807. Including: Copies of letters from Smart as a diplomat in St. Petersburg to various members of the British Government including Fox and Lord Howick which concern relations with Austria and between Austria and Russia. Letters to Pembroke from the Prince of Castelricala including a copy of a letter from Prince Castelricala to Canning foreign secretary and an extract of a treaty between the Russian Emperor and King Sicily signed Naples 10th September 1805. (In French) Copy of dispatch from Lord Castlereagh, Secretary of State for War to Lord Hutchinson ambassador to St. Petersburg, explaining that the British Government would be unable to move a large body of troops to the Baltic and Pamerania against Bonaparte but could send a smaller force in conjunction with Sweden. 1807. An account of British conduct at Bucharest August 20th 1807. (In French)

5 - Additional Miscellaneous Papers [1793]-c1860

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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