(Note abbreviations: PRO = Public Record Office, London. HMC = Historical Manuscripts Commission, London, which has calendared many private collections of papers with generous excerpts and sometimes even full texts of letters. A set of HMC volumes is in the British Museum and other libraries.)
Admiralty Papers: Correspondence between Admiralty and naval commanders, including Admirals Sir Samuel Graves, Lord Howe, Thomas Graves, Marriot Arbuthnot, Sir Samuel Hood. PRO Series ADM 1 & 2 (for digests of in-letters, see ADM 10, 11, 12).
———: Logs of HM ships. Series ADM 51.
Amherst Papers: PRO.
Artillery: Correspondence between artillery officers and artillery HQ. PRO Series C05.
Auckland Papers: Mostly to and from William Eden, later Lord Auckland, who at one relevant time controlled the British Secret Service. Additional MSS, British Museum.
Cleaveland, Samuel: PRO War Office Papers. Series WO55.
Colonial Office Papers: Correspondence between the Secretary of State and his staff with governors and commanders in chief in America, including Thomas Hutchinson, Generals Thomas Gage, Sir William Howe, Sir Henry Clinton, John Burgoyne, Lord Cornwallis. The files include enclosures such as relevant reports to the commanders from junior officers, intercepted enemy letters and local newspaper clippings. PRO Series C05.
———: Canada: military and civil correspondence to and from Sir Guy Carle-ton and his staff and from naval and military commanders operating in the province. PRO Series CO42.
Cornwallis Papers: PRO, London.
Dartmouth Papers: HMC, 1895 and 1896 (20). British Museum.
Duncan, Captain Henry, Journal. Miscellany, Navy Records Society, Empress House, London.
Eden, William: See Auckland Papers.
Eyre-Matcham Papers: HMC, Various 1909. British Museum.
Germain, Lord George: See Stopford-Sackville Papers.
Graves, Admiral Samuel, Conduct (journal). Additional MSS, British Museum.
Graves, Admiral Thomas: See Sandwich Papers.
Haldimand Papers: Additional MSS, British Museum.
Hastings (Lord Rawdon) Papers: HMC, 1934 (78).
Home Office: Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III) 1770-75. Cabinet minutes, interdepartmental correspondence, etc., mostly in Colonial Office and State Papers. PRO, London.
Hood, Admiral Sir Samuel: Navy Records Society, Empress House, London.
Howe, General Sir William: Evidence before committee of the House of Commons. PRO.
Hutcheson, Francis: See Haldimand Papers.
Jenkinson Papers: Additional MSS, British Museum.
Knox Papers: HMC, Various 1909.
Lothian, Marquess of: HMC, 1905.
Rawdon, Lord: See Hastings Papers.
Royal Institution: American MSS in the Royal Institution of Great Britain. HMC 1904-1909.
Sandwich Papers: Navy Records Society, Empress House, London.
State Papers (Domestic), George III: Cabinet minutes, interdepartmental correspondence, etc. PRO.
State Papers (Foreign) (France): Correspondence with ambassador. Series SP 78.
Stopford-Saekville (Lord George Germain) Papers: HMC, 1910 (49). British Museum.
Stormont, Lord: See State Papers (Foreign).
Tupper, Major: PRO. Admiralty Papers—see also Allen French’s The First Year of the American Revolution.
War Office: Correspondence between commanders and their staffs with Secretary for War, etc., Series WO 1, 2, etc.
Ainslie, Thomas: See Wurtele, Frederick C.
Anburey, Thomas, With Burgoyne from Quebec, 1963.
———, Travels Through Interior parts of America, 1789.
André, John, Journal, 1908.
Barker, John,British in Boston, 1924.
Baurmeister, Adjutant General Carl, Revolution in America, 1957.
Burgoyne, John, Letters to His Constituents, 1779.
———, Orderly Book of Lieutenant General John Burgoyne, 1860.
———, State of the Expedition, 1780.
———, Substance of General Burgoyne’s Speeches, 1778.
———, Supplement to the State of the Expedition, 1780.
Caldwell, Colonel: See Wurtele, Frederick C.
Clarke, John, Narrative of the Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775.
Clinton, Sir Henry, The American Rebellion, 1954.
———, Narrative of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton, 1783.
———, Observations of Mr. Stedman’s History, 1794.
———, Correspondence: See B. F. Stevens’ Campaign in Virginia.
Coffin, John: See Wurtele, Frederick C.
Cornwallis, Lord, Correspondence of Lord Cornwallis, ed. by Charles Ross, 1859.
———, Correspondence: See B. F. Stevens’ Campaign in Virginia.
Daly, Patrick: See Wurtele, Frederick C.
De Berniere, Ensign, Account (Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections. Series 2, Vol. 4).
Digby, William, British Invasion from the North, 1887.
Evelyn, W. G., Memoirs and Letters of W. G. Evelyn, 1879.
Ewald, Johann: See Uhlendorf.
Gage, Thomas, A ccount of the Battle Fought in America, 1115.
———, Correspondence with the Secretaries of State. (Yale Historical Publications, Manuscript and edited texts no. 11), 1931.
Hadden, J. M., Journals and Orderly Book, 1963.
Hanger, George, Life and Adventures of Colonel George Hanger, 1801.
Hinrichs, Johann: See Uhlendorf.
Howe, Sir William, Narrative in a Committee of the House of Commons, 1779, 1780.
———, Sir William Howe’s Orderly Book, ed. by B. F. Stevens, 1890.
Hunter, Sir Martin, Journal of Sir Martin Hunter, 1894.
Hutchinson, Thomas, Diary and Letters of Thomas Hutchinson, 1883-1886.
Kemble, Stephen, The Kemble Papers (New York Historical Society Collections, Publication Fund Series, Nos. 16 and 17), 1868.
Lamb, Roger, Journal, 1809.
———, Memoir of His Own Life, 1811.
Lister, Jeremy, Concord Fight, 1931.
Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, Historical Documents, Series 4, No. 4.
Montresor, John, The Montresor Journals (New York Historical Society Collections, 1882).
Murray, Sir James, Letters from America, 1951.
New York Historical Society Collections, Journal of Occurrences in Quebec, 1868.
Pausch, Georg, Journal of Captain Pausch, 1886 (Mansell’s Historical Series, No. 14).
Percy, Hugh Earl, Letters from Boston and New York, 1902.
Pettengill, R. W., Letters from America, 1924.
Riedesel, Friedrich Adolf von, Memoirs of General von Riedesel, 1868.
Riedesel, Friderike, Charlotte Louise von, Letters and Memoirs of Baroness von Riedesel, 1827.
Robertson, Archibald, His Diaries and Sketches in America, 1930.
Sandwich, Earl of, Private Papers of John, Earl of Sandwich, 1771-1782, 1932.
Serle, Ambrose, American Journal, 1776-1778, 1940.
Simcoe, J. G., The Journal of Operations of the Queens Rangers, 1787.
———, Simcoe’s Military Journal, 1844.
Stedman, Charles: See General Works.
Stevens, B. F., Campaign in Virginia, 1781, 1888. (Letters of Clinton and Cornwallis.)
Stone, W.L., Letters of Brunswick and Hessian Officers. 1891.
Tarleton, Banastre, A History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781,1787.
Uhlendorf, Bernhard A., The Siege of Charlestown, 1938 (University of Michigan Publications, Historical and Political Science, Vol. 12).
Von Huyn, J. C: See Uhlendorf.
Waller, Marine Adjutant, Orderly Book (Massachusetts Historical Society). See also Allen French’s The First Year of the American Revolution.
Wurtele, Frederick C, Blockade of Quebec, 1905 (Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 7th Series of Historical Documents, 1905).
Allen, Ethan, Narrative of the Capture of Ticonderoga, 1849.
Andréws, John, Letters of John Andréws, 1866.
Cresswell, Nicholas, Journal, 1924.
Lafayette, Marquis de, Memoirs, 1825.
Lee, Charles,Memoirs, 1792.
Revere, Paul, “Letter to Dr. Belknap, Describing His Ride to Lexington, etc.,” Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings for 1878, published 1879.
Stocking, Abner, “An Interesting Journal,” Magazines of History (Extra No. 75), 1921.
Sullivan, John, Letters and Papers (New Hampshire Historical Society Collections, Vols. 13-15), 1930.
Wilkinson, James, Memoirs of My Own Times, 1816.
Adams, John, The Works of John Adams, 1856.
Burney Collection of Newspapers, British Museum.
Franklin, Benjamin, Memoirs and Life of Benjamin Franklin, 1818.
Galloway, Joseph, Examination of Joseph Galloway, 1779. George III, Correspondence of George III, ed. by Sir John Fortescue. 1967.
Gibbon, Edward, Private Letters, 1896.
Grafton, Duke of, Autobiography and Correspondence of the 3rd Duke of Grafton, 1898.
Harcourt, Elisabeth, Mrs. Harcourt’s Diary of the Court of King George III (Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society), 1854.
Jesse, J. H. Memoirs of the Life etc., of George III, 1867.
Newspapers, contemporary: See Burney Collection above.
Papendiak, Charles L. H., The Court and Private Life at the Time of Queen Charlotte, 1887.
Parliamentary History of England.
Walpole, Horace, Last Journals.
Wraxall, Sir Nathaniel, Historical Memoirs, 1836.
Abbatt, William, The Battle of Pell’s Point, 1901.
Adams, C. F. and J. Q., The Life of John Adams, 1871.
Adams, Randolph G., “A View of Cornwallis’ Surrender,” American Historical Review, Vol. 37 (October-July, 1931-32).
Alden, J. B., The Rise of the A merican Republic, 1963.
Anderson, Troyer S., The Command of the Howe Brothers During the American Revolution, 1936.
Arnold, Isaac N., The Life of Benedict Arnold, 1880.
Aubrey-Fletcher, N. L., The History of the Foot Guards to 1856, 1927.
Bancroft, Edward, Narrative of the Objects and Proceedings of Silas Deane as Commissioner of the United States to France (Winnowings in American History Revolutionary Narrative No. 4), 1891.
Bancroft, George, The History of the United States of America, 1834-74.
Barrington, Shute, The Political Life of Viscount Barrington, 1814.
Bass, Robert D., The Green Dragoon, 1958.
Beirne, F. F.,Shout Treason, 1959.
Belcher, Henry, The First American Civil War, 1911.
Bemis, S. F., Diplomacy of the American Revolution, 1935.
Bill, Alfred Hoyt, The Campaign of Princeton (1776-1777), 1948.
Brayley, E. W., Londiniana, 1829.
Carter, William, Detail of Engagements etc. 1775-1776, 1784.
Carrington, H. B., Battles of the American Revolution, 1876.
Chalmers, Harvey, Joseph Brant, 1955.
Clara, Dora M., British Opinion and the American Revolution, 1930.
Clode, C. M., Military Forces of the Crown, 1869.
Coburn, Frank W., Battle of April 19th, 1912.
———, Battle on Lexington Common, 1921.
Cornwallis, Lord, General Regulations, etc., 1798.
Croly, George B. C, The Political Life of Edmund Burke, 1840.
Curtis, Edward E., Organization of the British Army in the American Revolution (Yale Historical Publication, Miscellany No. 19), 1926.
Davies, G., Early History of the Coldstream Guards, 1924.
Dawson, Henry B., Battles of the United States, 1858-60.
De Fonblanque, Edward B., Political and Military Episodes . . . of the Right Hon. John Burgoyne, 1876.
DeLancey, Edward F., “Mount Washington and Its Capture on 16th November 1776,” Magazine of American History, Vol. 1, February, 1877.
De Peyster, J. W., Life and Misfortunes etc. of Sir John Johnston, 1882.
Doniol, Henri, Histoire de la participation de la France à l’establissement des Etats-Unis, 1886-99.
Drake, Samuel, Bunker Hill, 1875.
Duncan, Francis, History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, 1872.
Dundas, Sir David, Instructions for Formation and Movements of Cavalry, 1799.
Edwards, Thomas J., Standards, Guidons, Colours etc., 1953.
Eelking, Max von, German Allied Troops in the North American War of Independence, 1893.
Field, Thomas W., The Battle of Long Island, 1869.
Fleming, T. J., Now We Are Enemies, 1960.
Flick, A. G., Loyalism in New York (Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. 14, No. 8), 1901.
Forbes, Arthur, History of the Army Ordnance Service, 1929.
Force, Peter, American Archives, Fourth and Fifth Series, 1837-46,1848-53.
Fortescue, Sir John, History of the British Army, 1899-1930.
French, Allen, The First Year of the American Revolution, 1934.
———, General Gage’s Informers, 1932.
———, Old Concord, 1915.
———, The Siege of Boston, 1911.
———, The Taking of Ticonderoga, 1928.
Frothingham, Richard, The History of the Siege of Boston, 1849.
Fuller, John F. C, Armament and History, 1946.
———, British Light Infantry in the 18th Century, 1925.
George, Mary D.,London Life in the 18th Century, 1925.
Gordon, William, The History . . . of the United States of America, 1788.
Gottschalk, L. R., Lafayette and the Close of the American Revolution, 1942.
———, Lafayette Joins the American Army, 1937.
Graham, Henry, History of the 16th Queen’s Light Dragoons, 1912.
Graham, James, Life of General Daniel Morgan, 1856. Greene, G. W., Life of Nathanael Greene, 1867.
Guttmacher, M.S., America’s Last King, 1941.
Hargreaves, Reginald, The Bloodybacks, 1968.
Hatch, Louis Clinton, Administration of the American Revolutionary Army, 1904.
Hinde, Robert, Discipline of the Light Horse, 1778.
Hinkhouse, F. J., Preliminaries of the American Revolution (Columbia University Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, No. 276,) 1926.
Hudleston, Francis, Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne, 1927.
Hughes, B. P., History of British Small Bore Artillery, 1970.
James, C,Regimental Companion, 1803.
Jennings, Sir William, The Queen’s Government, 1965.
Johnston, Henry P, The Battle of Harlem Heights, 1897.
———, The Campaign of 1776 (Long Island Historical Society, Memoirs etc., Vol. 3), 1867.
———, The Yorktown Campaign and the Surrender of Comwallis, 1881.
Jones, Charles H., The History of the Campaign for the Conquest of Canada in 1776, 1882.
Jones, Thomas, The History of New York During the Revolutionary War, 1879.
Lee, Henry, Memoirs of the War in Southern Department, 1812.
Lossing, B. J., Pictorial Field Book of the American Revolution, 1850.
Lowell, E. J., The Hessians . . . in the Revolutionary War, 1884.
Lucas, Reginald, Lord North, 1913.
Lundin, Charles Leonard, Cockpit of the American Revolution, 1940.
Lushington, S. R., Life and Services of General Lord Harris, 1840.
Mackesy, Piers, The War for America, 1775-83.
MacKinnen, Colonel, Origin and Services of the Coldstream Guards, 1833.
Mahan, Alfred T., Major Operations of the Navies in the American War of Independence, 1913.
Marlow, Louis, Sackville [Germain] of Drayton, 1948.
Martelli, George, Jeremy Twitcher [Lord Sandwich], 1962.
Moore, Frank, Songs and Ballads of the American Revolution, 1856.
Moore, George H., Treason of Charles Lee, 1860.
Muller, John, Treatise of Artillery, 1768.
Mumby, F.A., George III and the American Revolution, 1924.
Murdock, Harold, Earl Percy’s Dinner Table, 1907.
Neuman, G. C,History of Weapons in the American Revolution, 1967.
Nickerson, Hoffman, Turning Point of the Revolution, 1928.
Onderdonk, Henry, Revolutionary Incidents of Suffolk and King’s Counties, 1849.
Pakenham-Walsh, R. P., History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, 1889-1958.
Pares, Richard, George III and the Politicians, 1953.
Partridge, Bellamy, Sir Billy Howe, 1932.
Pemberton, N. W. B., Lord North, 1938.
Peterson, H. L., The Book of the Gun, 1962.
Reid, Loren, Charles James Fox, 1932.
Rogers, F., and Beard, A., Paul Revere: Patriot on Horseback, 1943.
Sabine, Lorenzo, American Loyalists, 1847.
Sargent, Winthrop, Life and Career of Major John André, Adjutant General of the British Army in America, 1902.
Scott, Duncan S., John Graves Simcoe, 1926.
Scott, Sir James S. D., British Army—Origin, Progress, etc., 1868.
Sheppard, J. E., Memorials of St. James’ Palace, 1894.
Shy, John W., Towards Lexington, 1965.
Sparks, Jared, Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, 1853.
Spector, Margaret M., American Department of the British Government, 1768-82.
Stedman, Charles, History of the Origins etc. of the American War, 1794.
Stevens, B. F., Facsimiles of Mss. in European Archives, 1773-83, 1889-98.
Stone, W. L., Campaign of Lieutenant General John Burgoyne, 1877.
———, Life of J. Brant-Thayendanegea, 1864.
———, Reminiscences of Saratoga, 1880.
———, Visits to Saratoga, 1895.
Stryker, William S., Battle of Monmouth, 1927.
———, Battles of Trenton and Princeton, 1898.
Sweet, Samuel, History of the Bunker Hill Battle, 1827.
Tourtellot, Arthur B., William Diamond’s Drum, 1960.
Treacy, M. F., Prelude to Yorktown, 1963.
Turner, Edward R., The Cabinet Council of England in the 17th and 18th Centuries, 1622-1784, 1930.
———, Privy Council of England in 17th and 18th Centuries, 1927.
Trevelyan, Sir George, The American Revolution, 1905.
Turberville, A. S., The House of Lords in the 18th Century, 1927.
Valentine, Alan, Lord George Germain, 1962.
———, Lord North, 1967.
Van Doren, C. C, Mutiny in January, 1943.
———, Secret History of the American Revolution, 1941.
Van Tyne, C, Loyalists in the American Revolution, 1902.
Wallace, Willard M., Appeal to Arms, 1951.
———, Traitorous Hero, 1954.
Ward, Christopher, War of the Revolution, 1952.
Wells, W. V., Life etc. of Samuel Adams, 1866.
Wilkins, W. H., Some British Soldiers in America, 1914.
Willcox, William B., “The British Road to Yorktown,” American Historical Review, Vol. 52 (October-July, 1946).
———, Portrait of a General [Sir Henry Clinton], 1964.
Wright, J. W., Notes on the Siege of Yorktown, 1932.
Zweig, Stefan, Marie Antoinette, 1933.