NAM.1996-10-107-3

Papers: E to F Bound list (TS) of the papers of Fortescue of Castle Hill (Devon), general papers within period 1667 to 1933. With MS entries (in red) highlighting correspondence and other items of a military content, especially local volunteers and yeomanry. From a box containing papers divided up by a set of East-Light Index dividers (A to L), described on spine as ‘Personal Papers’. The material consists exclusively of lists (and reports) of collections of papers and archive material either directly illustrative of, or highlighted to show relevance to, British military history from the end of the seventeenth century to the early twentieth centuries. HMC lists suggest the information was put together in the 1950s and 1960s. Collection of lists of private papers of military individuals. Information on collections of papers (eighteenth to twentieth centuries) providing source material for British military history. No personal papers to indicate precisely by whom the material was assembled.