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GIFT OF DICKSON MANUSCRIPTS AND NOTES 
TO THE 
ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
The following letter from General Sir Collingwood Dickson, V.C., 
G.C.B., to the Deputy-Adjutant-General, Royal Artillery, describes the 
feelings of esprit de corps and filial affection which have led him to place 
at the disposal of the Institution the valuable collection of MSS., Notes, 
and works on military matters, made first by Sir Alexander Dickson 
and continued by himself. 
The Committee are deeply grateful to Sir Collingwood for the gift, 
and to H.R.H. the President of the Institution for committing to their 
care such a- mass of historical treasures, and they hope they may prove 
themselves worthy of the trust confided to them. 
The letters and papers are contained in four large chests; the con¬ 
tents of one only of these (No. 1) have been briefly inspected and 
catalogued, and the Committee have instructed the Secretary to proceed 
forthwith in the inspection, indexing and cataloguing the contents of 
the other three boxes. 
Box No. 1 contains 74 books, ordnance works and bundles of MS. 
works, on such various subjects as the following 
1720-1750. MS. book. European Treatises, Synopsis of. 
1756. MSS. Byfleet Royal Camp. Details of Ordnance, &c. 
1782-1802. Public Letters and Orders for R.A., Index to. 
1798. MS. Toulon, Evacuation of. 
1793. Colonel Lawson. Ammunition for R.H.A. going into Camp. 
August 1798—July 1799. MS. Gibraltar, Minorca Expedition, Journal 
of Lieutenant and Adjutant Dickson. 
1799. Bound volume of MSS. Yoyages, Sieges, &c., various, from 1799. 
Notes. 
1800. MSS. Malta. Diaries of original correspondence at siege and 
capture. 
1781. Herald’s scroll of Coat-of-Arms granted to Captain Thomas Ross, 
R.A., for distinguished services. 
1808. MSS. 1 Bundle. Expedition to Portugal—Battle of Oliven^a. 
1809. MSS. 1 Bundle. Pursuit of Soult in Portugal—Expedition to 
Walcheren, Bells of captured Portress (Flushing) claimed by 
R.A. disallowed by Law Officers of the Crown. 
9. YOL. XXI. 
