Brief guide to manuscripts collections| William L. Clements Library The University of Michigan Howe Brothers Papers |
A collection of papers relating to the three Howe brothers: George Augustus, 3d viscount (ca.1725-1758), killed at Ticonderoga; Richard, 4th viscount (1726-1799), commander of British naval forces in North America, 1776-1778; and Sir William (1729-1814), commander in chief of the British army in North America, 1775-1778.
Most of the Howe Papers relating to America were apparently destroyed when a family seat at Westport, Ireland, burned in the early nineteenth century. The Clements collection has been pieced together by gift and sale and includes miscellaneous items pertaining to military operations as well as a number of family letters. Four items concern the Seven Years War, and about half of the whole collection is dated after 1783. Important items are Admiral Howe's signal book and the manuscript of 'Reflections on a Pamphlet intitled 'A letter to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Howe,'.' An orderly book of the commands of general Sir William Howe is described in the Orderly Book Collection.
Gift of Otto O. Fisher, 1952, and purchased
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