Bibliography for the Georgian Papers Programme ** Noted as drawn from the Royal Archives in the Survey of Published Editions * Noted as containing a lower concentration of Royal papers in the Survey of Published Editions **Aspinall, Arthur, ed. Letters of the Princess Charlotte, 1811-1817. London: Home & Van Thal, 1949. At Swem: DA 538 A4 A4 *Aspinall, Arthur, ed. Mrs. Jordan and Her Family, Being the Unpublished Letters of Mrs. Jordan and the Duke of Clarence Later William IV. London: A. Barker, 1951. Aspinall selects and presents letters from the actress Dorothea Jordan to the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV, and from Jordan and the Duke to their eldest sons. The letters date between 1790 and 1814. **Aspinall, Arthur, ed. The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales, 1770-1812. Eight Volumes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1963-1971. Aspinall selects and presents letters written by George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV. The eight-volume work covers the period from 1770 to 1812 and includes informative introductory essays. **Aspinall, Arthur, ed. The Later Correspondence of George III. Five Volumes. Cambridge: University Press, 1962-1970. Aspinall picks up where Fortescue s The Correspondence of King George the Third leaves off, presenting letters written by King George III from 1783 to 1810. Aspinall includes an introduction and extensive explanatory footnotes. **Aspinall, Arthur, ed. The Letters of King George IV, 1812-1830. Three Volumes. Cambridge: University Press, 1938. Aspinall selects and presents letters by King George IV written between 1812 and 1830. According to reviewer W. T. Laprade (American Historical Review, 1939), the three volumes contain about 1600 letters that Aspinall selected from the more than 16,000 letters by King George IV held at the Royal Archives at Windsor. Aspinall, Arthur. The Rupture of the Orange Marriage Negotiations, 1814. History 34, 120/121 (Feb. and Jun. 1949), 44-60. Aspinall discusses the marriage of Princess Charlotte Augusta to William, Hereditary Prince of Orange, later King of the Netherlands. He quotes extensively from Princess Charlotte s letters. 1
Bullion, John L. George III on Empire, 1783. The William and Mary Quarterly 51, 2 (Apr. 1994), 305-310. Bullion reprints and discusses an untitled paper written by George III about the consequences of American Independence. Bullion, John L. To Know This is the True Essential Business of a King : The Prince of Wales and the Study of Public Finance, 1755-1760. Albion 18, 3 (Autumn 1986), 429-454. Bullion discusses the financial education of George, Prince of Wales, later King George III, and includes essays on the subject written by George, Prince of Wales. Christie, Ian R. George III and the Debt on Lord North s Election Account, 1780-1784. The English Historical Review 78, 309 (October 1973), 715-724. Christie discusses financial matters during the early 1780s, reprinting and quoting from correspondence between King George III and Lord North, then Chancellor of the Exchequer. Crocker, John Wilson, ed. Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second from His Accession to the Death of Queen Caroline. Two Volumes. London: John Murray, 1848. Crocker reprints Lord John Hervey s Memoirs from his first coming to Court to the Death of the Queen, which Hervey wrote in 1738. The original copy of Memoirs is held at the Royal Archives at Windsor. *Dobrée, Bonamy, ed. The Letters of King George III. London: Cassell and Co., 1935. At Swem: DA 506 A2 A25 1935 **Donne, W. Bodham, ed. The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North, from 1768 to 1783. Two Volumes. London: John Murray, 1867. Donne presents the correspondence between King George III and Lord North, then Prime Minister, from 1768 to 1775. Donne claims to have reproduced these letters omitting and transposing nothing. **Fortescue, J. W., ed. The Correspondence of King George the Third From 1760 to December 1783: Printed from the Original Papers in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle. Six Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1927-1928. Fortescue selects and presents King George III s correspondence from 1760 to 1783. Fortescue was the historian of the British Army and served as Royal Librarian and Archivist at the Royal Archives at Windsor from 1905 to 1926. **Grey, Henry Earl. The Reform Act, 1832: The Correspondence of the Late Earl Grey with His Majesty King William IV and with Sir Herbert Taylor. Two Volumes. London: John Murray, 1867. 2
Grey presents the correspondence between King William IV and Grey s father, Earl Grey, who was Prime Minister from 1830 to 1834. The letters date from 1830 to 1832. The text includes a preface and a table of contents listing each letter. **Hamilton, W. B. Some Letters of George III. South Atlantic Quarterly LXVIII, 3 (1969), 411-424. Hamilton presents eighteen letters written by King George III between 1793 and 1800. Many of the letters are addressed to Henry Dundas, then Secretary of State for War. *Harcourt, Leveson Vernon, ed. The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose: Containing Original Letters of the Most Distinguished Statesmen of his Day. Two Volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1860. Harcourt selects and presents the private and public correspondence of Right Honorable George Rose, a British politician and Vice President of the Board of Trade from 1807 to 1812. Included are some of King George III s letters. Historical Manuscripts Commission. Calendar of the Stuart Papers Belonging to His Majesty the King Preserved at Windsor Castle. Seven Volumes. London: His Majesty s Stationary Office by Mackie & Co., 1902-1923. This publication includes selected official correspondence from 1579 to 1718. A preface describes the scope of the collection. The final volume includes some of King George I s letters. *Historical Manuscripts Commission. Report on the Manuscripts of J. B. Fortescue, Esq., Preserved at Dropmore. Four Volumes. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1899-1927. This publication includes the letters and papers of George Grenville, Prime Minister from 1763 to 1765. There are selections from King George III s letters. **Kassler, Michael, ed. Memoirs of the Court of George III. Four Volumes. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. Kassler s work includes letters written by artist Mary Delany and diaries written by Queen Charlotte in 1789 and 1794 as well as by Charlotte Papendiek, Charlotte s Ladyin-Waiting, and Lucy Kennedy, a long-standing member of court. **Namier, Lewis Bernstein, ed. Additions and Corrections to Sir John Fortescue s Edition of the Correspondence of King George the Third. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1937. Namier compares the letters included in Fortescue s The Correspondence of King George the Third with the originals at the Royal Archives at Windsor. He notes mistakes in transcription and incorrect dates as well as other publications in which the letters appear. 3
**Pargellis, Stanley, ed. Military Affairs in North America, 1748-1765: Selected Documents from the Cumberland Papers in Windsor Castle. New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1936. Pargellis selects and presents the correspondence of Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, who was the second son of King George II. Cumberland served as the captain general of the British army from 1745 to 1757. *Public Record Office. Chatham Papers: Correspondence of William Pitt, the Younger. Kew, Richmond, Surrey: List and Index Society, 1989-1990. This publication presents the correspondence of William Pitt the Younger from 1783 to 1806. Included are some letters to and from King George III. The volume is arranged chronologically and clearly indexed. *Rose, J. Holland, ed. Pitt and Napoleon: Essays and Letters. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912. Rose selects and presents essays by Pitt and Napoleon as well as Pitt s correspondence with King George III and other English politicians. The letters between Pitt and King George III date from 1783 to 1805. Sedgwick, Romney, ed. Letters from George III to Lord Bute, 1756-1766. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981. Sedgwick selects and presents 338 letters between King George III and Lord Bute, Prime Minister from 1762 to 1763. The letters date between 1756 and 1763 and the text includes an introductory historiographical essay. **Sedgwick, Romney, ed. Some Materials Towards Memoirs of the Reign of King George II. 3 Volumes. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1931. Sedgwick edits and presents Lord John Hervey s Memoirs from his first coming to Court to the Death of the Queen, which Hervey wrote in 1738. The original copy of Memoirs is held at the Royal Archives at Windsor. *Smith, William James, ed. The Grenville Papers: Being the Correspondence of Richard Grenville Earl Temple, K.G., and the Right Hon: George Greenville, Their Friends and Contemporaries. Four Volumes. London: John Murray, 1852-1853. Smith selects and presents the correspondence of several members of the Grenville family from 1742 to 1777. Included are letters written to and from King George II and King George III as well as other members of the royal family. *Stanhope, Earl. Life of the Right Honorable William Pitt. Four Volumes. London: John Murray, 1861-1862. 4
Stanhope draws on a collection of Pitt s private and public correspondence to write his biography. Appendices in each volume contain letters and extracts of letters between Pitt and King George III from 1783 to 1805. Stuart, Dorothy Margaret. The Daughters of George III. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1939. Stuart s biography of the six daughters of King George III (Charlotte Augusta, Augusta Sophia, Elizabeth, Mary, Sophia, and America) includes reproductions of letters held at the Royal Archives at Windsor. *Taylor, Ernest, ed. The Taylor Papers Being a Record of Certain Reminiscences, Letters, and Journals in the Life of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Herbert Taylor. London, New York, Bombay, and Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913. Taylor presents selections from Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Taylor s unfinished memoirs as well as from his letters and papers. Taylor s correspondents include Queen Charlotte and other members of the royal family. The text covers the period from 1780 to 1839 and includes a detailed table of contents. *Taylor, William Stanhope, and John Henry Pringle, eds. Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Four Volumes. London: John Murray, 1838-1840. Taylor and Pringle present selected correspondence of William Pitt from 1741 to 1778, including letters to and from the royal family. There are detailed tables of contents in each volume. *White, Colin, ed. Nelson: The New Letters. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2005. White selects and presents over 500 letters from the over 1200 that were collected as part of the Nelson Letters Project, a five-year worldwide search of archives for Nelson-related material. The letters date from 1777 to 1805 and include those addressed to members of the royal family. Webster, C. K. The Foreign Policy of Castlereagh, 1812-1815. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1931. Webster discusses British foreign policy during the period when Lord Castlereagh served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Selections from King George IV s papers are included in the text and in Appendix D. 5