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Galley proofs from various sections of the book annotated with suggestions by J L Garvin.

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Subjects include: prints of portraits of 1st Duke of Marlborough's family and notables of the time; plans of some of Marlborough's battles.

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Subjects include: foreign policy; Scotland; 1st Duke of Marlborough's early years; Marlborough between 1673 and 1678; Marlborough and James II between 1678 and 1688; Barbara Villiers (Duchess of Cleveland).

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Subjects include: 1st Duke of Marlborough and the Hudson's Bay Company; the 1688 revolution; the capture of Cork and Kinsale, 1690 [County Cork, Ireland]; Marlborough and the court of St Germains [France]; Marlborough and the Brest Expedition [France]; European History, 1684-1702; the comparative force of ships of war.

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Subjects include: letters of 1st Duke of Marlborough; Marlborough and St Germains [France]; Marlborough's disgrace; Marlborough and the 2nd Lord Ailesbury.

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Correspondents include: Edward Marsh [WSC's secretary]; Maurice Ashley [WSC's literary assistant].Subjects include: letters between 1st Duke of Marlborough and Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough; the Woburn Abbey manuscripts.

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Subjects include: the attempt on Brest, [France] in June 1694; the battle of Sole Bay, [Suffolk] in 1672.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This class contains correspondence with publishers, editors, and printers, and other correspondence in connection with WSC's literary work both during preparation and after publication. Since some of the publications are political there is a little correspondence on political topics which arises directly and obviously out of publications. The class also contains materials assembled for writing, notes and drafts, printer's copy, proofs, and reviews. Often some of the material assembled was...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This class contains correspondence with publishers, editors, and printers, and other correspondence in connection with WSC's literary work both during preparation and after publication. Since some of the publications are political there is a little correspondence on political topics which arises directly and obviously out of publications. The class also contains materials assembled for writing, notes and drafts, printer's copy, proofs, and reviews. Often some of the material assembled was...

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Correspondents include: Sir Maurice Hankey; Louis Levy; Henry Lygon.

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Includes: a contemporary map of 1st Duke of Marlborough's campaigns.

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Subjects include: the navy in the Mediterranean; the Margrave of Baden [Prince Louis]; Prussia [later parts of Germany and Poland], 1705-1706; Europe, 1701-1704.

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Subjects include: letters between 1st Duke of Marlborough and 1st Lord Godolphin; letters between Marlborough and Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough; Portugal; the Hungarian Revolt, 1703; Marlborough in politics; Savoy, 1703; Marlborough and the peace negotiations, 1702-1705; South West Europe, 1702-1703.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This class contains correspondence with publishers, editors, and printers, and other correspondence in connection with WSC's literary work both during preparation and after publication. Since some of the publications are political there is a little correspondence on political topics which arises directly and obviously out of publications. The class also contains materials assembled for writing, notes and drafts, printer's copy, proofs, and reviews. Often some of the material assembled was...

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Subjects include: Queen Anne, 1702; Dutch reaction to the death of William III; the Netherlands campaign, 1703.

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Subjects include: the Danube [Germany] campaign, 1704; 1st Duke of Marlborough's mission to Berlin [Germany]; the English Parliamentary Session, 1704-1705; the Moselle [Germany] campaign, 1705; Prince Louis, Margrave of Baden's campaign on the Upper Rhine [Germany]; the Belgian campaign; the reinforcement of Prince Eugene [of Savoy], 1705; Louis XIV's attempts at peace, 1705; the rise of the Whigs, 1705.

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Subjects include: letters of 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1702-1704; character of Overkirk, [Henry Nassau]; "the barge episode"; Portugal; Prince Eugene of Savoy.

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Subjects include: campaigns, 1704-1706.

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Subjects include: 1st Duke of Marlborough and the Dutch Field Deputies, 1703; government in the Netherlands; general war plans of the allies and Louis XIV, 1704; the lines of Stallhofen [Germany]; the negotiations with Portugal, 1703; the Netherlands campaign, 1703; Savoy; Marlborough's march to the Danube, [Germany] in 1704; Portugal and Spain, 1704; Marlborough's tour of Europe, 1705; Prussia [later parts of Germany and Poland].

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Draft proofs of chapters including: chapter 1 "The Whigs' approach" and chapter 2 "The tottering alliance".

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Draft proofs of chapters including: chapter 5 "Fortune's gift", chapter 14 "Toulon [France]", chapter 15 "Marlborough in Trammels" and chapter 16 "Abigail".

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Transcribed sources dating 1705-1718 with annotations [by Maurice Ashley] of correspondence between John, 1st Duke of Marlborough and Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, Queen Anne and 1st Lord Godolphin on Marlborough's campaigns in Europe and the building of Blenheim Palace.

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Galley proofs of transcribed letters. Printed.

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Draft proofs of chapters including: Chapter 1, "The Whig Approach"; Chapter 2, "Prince of Mindelheim" [Germany]; Chapter 6, "The Battle of Ramillies" [Flanders, later Belgium]; Chapter 7, "The Conquest of Belgium"; Chapter 16, "Abigail" [Masham].

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Draft proofs of chapters including: Chapter 9, "Madrid and Turin"; Chapter 17, "The Fall of [Robert] Harley" [later, 1st Lord Oxford]; Chapter 18, "The Jacobite Raid"; Chapter 16, "Abigail" [Masham]; Chapter 24, "The Home Front"; Chapter 25, "The Siege of Lille" [France].