Sunday 15 August 2010

The Early History of the Knights Templar

The James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection at the Beinmecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in Yale University includes the following item:

Osborn Shelves d 132

Fellowes, William Dorset, d. 1828
[Biographical notes on Sir Sidney Smith (1764-1840)]: autograph MS in part 1846
ca. 140 p.; 26 x 20 cm.

Collection includes: a continuous memoir, 31 pages titled "Anecdotes and recollections respecting Sir Sidney Smith and Captain Wright [John Wesley Wright (1769-1805)] of the Royal Navy"; numerous inserted cuttings,engravings, memoranda; also a few letters; a quantity of notes concern the establishment of the Knights Templar in London in 1830, to which Smith and Fellows belonged; this material includes a letter to Fellows from Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843).

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