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2057 - WILTON HOUSE AND ESTATE ARCHIVES
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1 - SURVEYS AND VALUATIONS
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2 - ACCOUNTS
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3 - RENTALS AND RENT ACCOUNTS
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4 - MANORIAL
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5 - ENCLOSURE
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6 - PLANS AND MAPS
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7 - OTHER ESTATE RECORDS
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8 - WILTON HOUSE AND PARK
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9 - CHARITIES
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10 - FAMILY AND PERSONAL
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11 - Other activities of the family
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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
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13 - Deeds
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14 - Legal
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