The remaining 15 documents in the archive are odds and ends from Kinglake's papers which seem to have been accidentally included among those he lent to Smyth.
Most of the documents are now in the collection of the Cambridge University Library. The references are shown thus:- CUL Add.9554/5/xx
The first four items are notes reflecting Kinglake's general interest in matters military, not specifically related to his history of the Crimean War.
Notes on the British Army in the year 1761 (not fully transcribed).
A summary of the military forces of Great Britain in 1813.
A summary of the numbers in the Indian Army in 1853.
An extract headed Tel El Kebir - Colonel Sterling's Journal. Lt-Col. John Burton Sterling, of the Coldstream Guards, was wounded in the battle of Tel-El- Kebir in the Egyptian War of 1882.
The next four items are notes which seem to relate more directly to the preparation of Kinglake's book.
A list of sources.
A part note headed Apparition & voice of the 'Mounted officer' - Rider to p. 458. This may have been intended for his account of the battle of the Alma, but does not seem to have been used.
An extract from a letter by Wellington to Earl Bathurst dated July 8, 1815, critical of the leaders of the French revolution.
An extract from Wolseley's Pocket book on the inadvisability of trusting a flag of truce.
The next four items relate to the aftermath of the publication of his work.
A letter dated 10 March 1877 from J W Armstrong with suggested corrections to Volume IV.
A Map (not here reproduced) endorsed Map showing the course we took in one of our rides near Sebastopol Sept. '69
A letter dated 24 April 1872 from Edward Cardwell at the War Office about graves in the Crimea. Edward Cardwell was Secretary of State for War between 1870 and 1874.
A letter dated 4 Nov 1890 from Edward Hamley concerning his own book on the war (General Sir Edward Hamley, KCB, The War in The Crimea, London, 1891).
The next two items are letters from Janet Ross. In the 1840s her parents, Lucie and Alexander Duff-Gordon, had kept a literary salon in London whose habitués included Kinglake. Janet acted as Kinglake's secretary for a while when he was starting Invasion of the Crimea and remained in communication with him until his death. I am indebted to Rod Robinson for identifying her. The "Ly Hester" mentioned in the letters is Lady Hester Stanhope. She had known Kinglake's mother, and he visited her in the Levant during his "Eothen" tour. A chapter of that book is devoted to the occurrence.
Letter dated 15 Jan 1890 from Janet Ross.
Letter dated 3 Feb. [1890] from Janet Ross.
Finally there is a document whose connection to Kinglake is unknown. It is probable that the author is Field Marshall Sir Edward Blakeney, 1778-1868, who served with the Royal Fusiliers in the Peninsular War and other campaigns, and that the school is the Royal Hibernian Military School in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
Letter of indefinite date from "Edw Blakeney" to "Grove" soliciting assistance in getting the sons of an old soldier into a school.
The remaining 15 documents in the archive are odds and ends from Kinglake's papers which seem to have been accidentally included among those he lent to Smyth.
Most of the documents are now in the collection of the Cambridge University Library. The references are shown thus:- CUL Add.9554/5/xx
The first four items are notes reflecting Kinglake's general interest in matters military, not specifically related to his history of the Crimean War.
The next four items are notes which seem to relate more directly to the preparation of Kinglake's book.
The next four items relate to the aftermath of the publication of his work.
The next two items are letters from Janet Ross. In the 1840s her parents, Lucie and Alexander Duff-Gordon, had kept a literary salon in London whose habitués included Kinglake. Janet acted as Kinglake's secretary for a while when he was starting Invasion of the Crimea and remained in communication with him until his death. I am indebted to Rod Robinson for identifying her. The "Ly Hester" mentioned in the letters is Lady Hester Stanhope. She had known Kinglake's mother, and he visited her in the Levant during his "Eothen" tour. A chapter of that book is devoted to the occurrence.
Finally there is a document whose connection to Kinglake is unknown. It is probable that the author is Field Marshall Sir Edward Blakeney, 1778-1868, who served with the Royal Fusiliers in the Peninsular War and other campaigns, and that the school is the Royal Hibernian Military School in Phoenix Park, Dublin.