Wellington Papers Database
Search the Wellington Papers Database which contains material for the periods 1807-8 and 1819-32, together with material for part of Wellington's tenure as Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire
The Wellington Papers archive is divided in the following sections. Summary catalogues of these sections can be accessed in the useful downloads section below. For more detailed descriptions of papers from WP1 (for 1807-8, 1819-32) and for some of the WP4 Lord Lieutenancy papers search the Wellington Papers Database.
WP1/1-1244 General correspondence and memoranda, 1790-1832
WP2/1-258 General correspondence and memoranda, 1833-52; subject bundles 1827-52
WP3/1-3 India letter books, 1797-1805
WP4/1-32 Hampshire Lieutenancy papers, 1828-52
WP5/1-4 Bound volumes of the first Duke of Wellington's papers
WP6/1-7 Indexes to the papers of the first Duke of Wellington
WP7/1-11 Printed and proof versions of the Dispatches
WP8/1 Papers of Colonel John Gurwood
WP9/1-8 Military archives
WP10/1 Papers of Henry Bathurst, third Earl Bathurst, as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
WP11/1-5 Papers of Richard Colley Wellesley, first Marquis Wellesley (1760-1842)
WP12/1-3 Papers of Henry Wellesley, first Baron Cowley (1773-1847)
WP13/1 Papers of Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, first Earl and second Baron Cowley (1804-84)
WP14/1 Papers of Henry Wellesley, third Duke of Wellington (1846-1900)
WP15/1-54 Maps, plans and drawings
WP16/1 Papers of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
Search the Wellington Papers Database which contains material for the periods 1807-8 and 1819-32, together with material for part of Wellington's tenure as Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire
MS 69 is a further group of papers, separated from this archive in the 1860s and containing the papers of Christopher Collins, the Duke's manservant.
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