Manuscript letters and papers

Item author: John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
Item date: 18th century
Grant Value: 7,000
Item cost: 700,000
Item date acquired: 1991
Item institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London

A large collection of papers: 3,600 documents relating to naval affairs between 1771 and 1782 with 70 notes and minutes of cabinet meetings and more than 300 letters from George III. There is material on many other subjects including Captain Cooks voyages, the Royal Hospital Greenwich, light houses and the health of seamen, the Astronomer Royal and John Harrison and his watches, dockyards and the Marines