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Introduction to the Wellington Archive: publications

Some of Wellington's papers are well-known from nineteenth-century editions of the Duke's correspondence and there have been more recent selections and editions. The principal editions are The dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, KG, during his various campaigns ... from 1799 to 1818 ed. J.Gurwood (13 vols., new edition, London 1837-9); Supplementary despatches and memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington, KG ed. A.R.Wellesley, second Duke of Wellington (15 vols., London, 1858-72), also covering the period 1799-1818; Despatches, correspondence and memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington, KG ... from 1818 to 1832 ed. A.R.Wellesley, second Duke of Wellington (8 vols., London, 1867-80); and two volumes in the HMC Prime Minister's Papers Series, Wellington I: political correspondence 1833 - November 1834 ed. J.Brooke and J.Gandy (London, 1976) and Wellington II: political correspondence November 1834 - April 1835 ed. R.J.Olney and J.Melvin (London, 1986). The Duke's private correspondence, for the main part acquired by later Dukes of Wellington and published in part in A selection from the private correspondence of the first Duke of Wellington ed. G.Wellesley, seventh Duke of Wellington (Roxburghe Club, 1952) and Wellington and his friends. Letters of the first Duke of Wellington to the Rt. Hon. Charles and Mrs. Arbuthnot, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, Princess Lieven, and Miss Burdett-Coutts ed. G.Wellesley, seventh Duke of Wellington (London, 1965), remains at Stratfield Saye.

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