Sir Thomas Phillipps collection
Contributors: Cooper, John Gilbert, 1723-1769
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1100
Subjects: Boundaries; Surveys; Courts; Genealogy; Colonies; History; Discovery and exploration
Description: Manuscript materials formerly a part of Sir Thomas Phillipps' collection relating chiefly to various aspects of the colonial history of North America and the West Indies.  Of particular note are papers relating to the Board of Trade and Sir William Blathwayt; letterbooks of George Macartney while Governor of the Caribbean Islands; English and Italian genealogical material; papers of Jean Louis Berlandier relating to his surveys of the U.S.-Mexican border and to his various explorations in Mexico, Lower California, and Texas; English court records and reports; and miscellaneous papers of various colonies in British North America.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, in part, nos. 6,192; 14,454; 16,172; 16,311; 17,333; 17,339; 17,369; 17,540; 17,742; 18,786; and 23,859.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1944-1979.

Microfilm of original letters of John Gilbert Cooper in the Bodleian Library, Oxford University (Oxford, England).

Great Britain: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford

Gift and purchase, 1901-1983.

English antiquarian and bibliographer.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.