NEPEAN, Sir Evan (1751-1812) and the SECRET SERVICE. A collection of approximately 27 letters and 22 notes and documents addressed to Nepean or other officials by various signatories, mostly referring to Secret Service payments, various places (mostly London), 22 April 1793 - 4 November 1802 and n.d., altogether approximately 129 pages, mostly 4to and folio (some leaves browned, worn and frayed in margins, sometimes touching text); tipped on guards into an album, early 20th-century mottled brown calf gilt, spine in compartments, red and black morocco lettering pieces, 340 x 230 mm. Provenance : Mark Dineley (book label). Correspondence about the cost of intelligence gathering durng the wars with France. Several letters concern agents, including William Chalmers, master of a victuallers' transport, 'just returned from Morlaix where he was employed on secret service' and asking for remuneration, and Lt. Col. W. Colyer Robertson, evidently out of pocket from a mission to Holland in 1787, 'The Bills I drew while there are still at Messrs Drummonds ... and amount in all to 302-10 [pounds and shillings] ... I am persuaded you will endeavour to prevent my being a loser by that Mission', with details of his disbursements for transport, lodgings and maps. Letters by the consul at Christiansand and two memoranda refer to a Captain von Dirkinck, who reports on the Dutch fleet. The collection includes affidavits signed by Nepean in respect of expenditure for secret service from 1793-1798, the annual amounts varying from less than £500 to £18,393-3-6, 'for the purposes of Foreign secret service and secret service in detecting preventing or defeating treasonable or other dangerous conspiracies against the state', and documents referring to Lord Spencer's 'secret service account'. Nepean was Under Secretary for War in 1794 and from 1795 -1804 Secretary to the Admiralty.
NEPEAN, Sir Evan (1751-1812) and the SECRET SERVICE. A collection of approximately 27 letters and 22 notes and documents addressed to Nepean or other officials by various signatories, mostly referring to Secret Service payments, various places (mostly London), 22 April 1793 - 4 November 1802 and n.d., altogether approximately 129 pages, mostly 4to and folio (some leaves browned, worn and frayed in margins, sometimes touching text); tipped on guards into an album, early 20th-century mottled brown calf gilt, spine in compartments, red and black morocco lettering pieces, 340 x 230 mm. Provenance : Mark Dineley (book label). Correspondence about the cost of intelligence gathering durng the wars with France. Several letters concern agents, including William Chalmers, master of a victuallers' transport, 'just returned from Morlaix where he was employed on secret service' and asking for remuneration, and Lt. Col. W. Colyer Robertson, evidently out of pocket from a mission to Holland in 1787, 'The Bills I drew while there are still at Messrs Drummonds ... and amount in all to 302-10 [pounds and shillings] ... I am persuaded you will endeavour to prevent my being a loser by that Mission', with details of his disbursements for transport, lodgings and maps. Letters by the consul at Christiansand and two memoranda refer to a Captain von Dirkinck, who reports on the Dutch fleet. The collection includes affidavits signed by Nepean in respect of expenditure for secret service from 1793-1798, the annual amounts varying from less than £500 to £18,393-3-6, 'for the purposes of Foreign secret service and secret service in detecting preventing or defeating treasonable or other dangerous conspiracies against the state', and documents referring to Lord Spencer's 'secret service account'. Nepean was Under Secretary for War in 1794 and from 1795 -1804 Secretary to the Admiralty.
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