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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

1 - Papers relating to house alterations and restoration

1 - Drawings by Inigo Jones and John Webb for the doors of the state rooms.

2 - Two vouchers and a receipted account from L.F. Roubiliac for carvings

3 - Estimate for steps leading to the centre window of the salon room at Wilton, by William Privett, principal mason of the obelisk, grotto & pantheon at Stourhead.

4 - Receipted account from Sir William Chambers for building work at Wilton and Whitehall.

5 - Receipted account and voucher from Sir Joshua Reynolds for paintings.

6 - A voucher and twelve accounts for pottery from Josiah Wedgwood, sons, and Byerley.

7 - Estimates, accounts and correspondence related to James Wyatt’s restoration and rebuilding work, including the Gothick cloister. Letters from James and Benjamin Wyatt, Lord Pembroke, the earl of Carnarvon, Richard Westmacott, Seagrim, Money Fisher and others

8 - Estimate for wall papering at Wilton House, with two samples of paper and two of borders; and two patterns of wall paper for passages. See also 2057/H1/26

9 - Notebook in the hand of James Wyatt with working notes and architectural drawings for his extensive alterations to the house. It includes a few pages of notes by Lord Pembroke. See also 2057/F7/3/1

10 - Notebook in the hand of James Wyatt with working notes for his alterations to the house and a very few small sketches. Includes brief notes by Lord Pembroke and his wife, Catherine Woronzow

11 - Notebook, “disposition of the figures, busts, basso and alto relievos, sarchophagi and other pierces of antiquity in the hall and cloister…” Labelled in Catherine Wornontzow’s hand “by Mr. Wyatt”. See also 2057/F7/3/1

12 - Notebook: “dimensions at Wilton”. Apparently in Catherine Woronzow’s hand, and mainly to do with furnishings and garden ornaments.

13 - Correspondence, estimates, accounts, etc., for household furnishings.

14 - Correspondence, accounts etc., from Richard Westmacott, Money Fisher, Jeffrey Wyatt and others for building work, internal decoration, and so on.

15 - Letters about pieces of sculpture, in Italy or at Wilton.

16 - Rough lists, some in Catherine Woronzow’s hand, of pictures, dimensions of rooms, etc.

17 - Letter to Lady Pembroke about the redecoration and restoration of the dining room at Wilton House.

18 - Accounts from various firms for furnishing, picture frames, restoration of pictures, etc., 1915, 1933-1963

19 - Accounts from W. Holder and Sons for restoration work on the pictures at Wilton House.

20 - Accounts for fitting up the muniment room at the Wilton estate office, and restoring some of the records.

21 - Correspondence with Sidney 16th earl of Pembroke, about paintings and furnishings in Wilton House, related works of art elsewhere, exhibitions, etc.

22 - Correspondence, from Professor Tristram and others, about restoring the double and single cube rooms and dealing with an outbreak of dry rot in the latter.

23 - An album of photographs of the double and single cube rooms during and after repair. Taken by the Ministry of works. There is an account of the restoration of these rooms in 2057/H1/20.

24 - Report on the rewiring of Wilton House by the South Electricity Board, with marginal comments by Lord Pembroke

25 - Correspondence, estimates and accounts for refurnishing and restoration work at Wilton House.

26 - Wilton House and English Palladianism, by John Bold (R.C.H.M.), H.M.S.O., 1988.

27 - Papers relating to the press day at Wilton house during the restoration works.

28 - Wallpaper from the corner room at Wilton House, removed during alterations in November 1990. Full pattern sample on hessian.

29 - Notes on paintings and blocked windows discovered during the restoration of 1990-1991, and also about the statue of Fame being replaced on the south front of the house.

30 - Two letters from TH Wyatt about the palladian bridge.

2 - Papers relating to park improvements

3 - Plans and drawings

4 - Engravings and prints, etc.

5 - Inventories

6 - Sale catalogues

7 - Household management

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

13 - Deeds

14 - Legal

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