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“Wolfiana” in the Archives & Research Library
New Brunswick Museum

 


Bland, Humphrey. A treatise of military discipline
  Adair, Edward Robert. “The military reputation of Major-General James Wolfe. Presidential address delivered .” The Canadian Historical Association. Report of the Annual Meeting. (1936): 7 - 31

Bell, Andrew. British-Canadian centennium, 1759 – 1859. General James Wolfe, his life and death: a lecture delivered in the Mechanics’ Institute Hall, Montreal, on Tuesday, Sept 13, 1859, being the anniversary day of the Battle of Quebec, fought a century before, in which Britain lost a hero and won a province…Montreal: John Lovell, 1859.

Bland, Humphrey. A treatise of military discipline: in which is laid down and explained the duty of the officer and soldier, through the several branches of the services. {Wolfe’s personal copy – Signed by James Wolfe} London: J. and P. Knapson, 1746.

Bradley, Arthur Granville. Wolfe. London: Macmillan and co., 1895.

Card, Raymond William George. General Wolfe; a one-act play.. Toronto: Thomas Nelson & sons, ltd., 1931.

Casgrain, Henri Raymond. …Wolfe and Montcalm. Toronto: Morang & co. limited, 1905.

Casgrain, Philippe Baby. …The monument to Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham, and the old statue at “Wolfe’s Corner”. Ottawa: J. Hope & sons, 1904.

“Catalogue of the Wolfe-Aylward collection.” n.p. 1929.

 


Thompson, Gibson. …Westerham, with its surroundings; a handbook to Wolfe-land…
  Clair, Colin. General James Wolfe. Hero of Quebec. Hunters Lane, Leavesden, Watford, Herts: Bruce & Gawthorn Limited, 1963.

Clarke, John M. Results of the Excavations at the Site of the French “Custom House” or “General Wolfe’s House” on Peninsula Point in Gaspé Bay. Montreal: C.A. Marchand, 1911.

De Krifft, W. B. Siege of Quebec, a sonata for the harpsichord or piano-forte, with accompaniments for a violin, violoncello, & tympano ad Libitum. Composed by W.B. De Krifft and dedicated to the officers &c engag’d in the Glorious Service, Sept 18th, 1759. London: Bland, 1760.

“Dialogues in the shades, between General Wolfe, General Montgomery, David Hume, George Grenville, and Charles Townshend.” London: G. Kearsley, 1777.

Doughty, Sir Arthur George. …The siege of Quebec and the battle of the Plains of Abraham. Quebec: Dussault & Proulx, 1901.

Findlay, James Thomas. Wolfe in Scotland in the ’45 and from 1749 to 1753. London: Longmans, Green and co., 1928.

 


Webster, J. Clarence. Wolfe and the artists, a study of his portraiture
  Grinnell-Milne, Duncan. Mad, Is He? The character and achievement of James Wolfe. London: The Bodley Head, 1963.

Harris, John. A thanksgiving-sermon preached in the parish church of Greensted, in Essex, on Thursday November 29, 1759. Being the day appointed by proclamation for a general thanksgiving to God, for vouchsafing such signal successes to His Majesty’s arms both by sea and land, particularly by the defeat of the French army in Canada, and the taking of Quebec; and for most seasonably granting us, at this time, an uncommonly plentiful harvest…London: E. Owen and T. Harrison, 1759.

Henty, G. A. With Wolfe in Canada; or, The winning of a continent. New York: W. L. Allison Company, n.d.

Howard, Richard. Wolfe at Quebec. [jackdaw]

Kennedy, William Paul McClure. “Wolfe at Quebec,” The Canadian Magazine 45.5 (1915): 361 – 364

Lande, Lawrence Montaque. The 3rd Duke of Richmond. Montreal: n.p. , 1960.

Liddell Hart, Basil Henry, “General Wolfe – grandsire of the United States,” Blackwoods Magazine 221 (1927) 336 – 366

 


McNairn, Alan. Behold the hero: General Wolfe and the arts in the 18th century
  Lydekker, John Wolfe, “Wolfe’s French intelligence officer,” The Canadian Magazine 45.5 (1915) 654 – 655

McNairn, Alan. Behold the hero: General Wolfe and the arts in the 18th century. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 1997.

Mahon, Reginald Henry, “The mystery of the Anse au Foulon,” Blackwoods Magazine 201 (1917?) 367 – 378

The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. Quebec House, [Westerham, England], (Description of the Home of James Wolfe listing much of its contents.). London: The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, n.d.

Parkman, Francis. Montcalm and Wolfe. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1888.

________, Montcalm and Wolfe. 1888; Toronto: Geo. N.Morang & co., ltd., 1899.

________, Montcalm and Wolfe. 1888; New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1984.

Pringle, Sir John. The life of General James Wolfe, the conqueror of Canada: or, The elogium of that renowned hero, attempted according to the rules of eloquence. Boston: Fowle and Draper, 1760.

Quebec House Permanent Advisory Committee. Wolfe: portraiture and genealogy. 1959.

Quebec, Literary and Historical Society. Manuscripts relating to the early history of Canada. Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 1875.

Reilly, Robin. The rest to fortune. The life of Major-General James Wolfe. London: Cassell, 1960.

 


…Westerham, with its surroundings; a handbook to Wolfe-land…
  Sabine, Lorenzo. An address before the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, in the hall of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, Tuesday, Sept 13th, 1859. Boston: A. Williams & co., 1859.

Salmon, Edward. General Wolfe. Toronto: Cassell & co.,ltd., 1909?

Sotheby, firm, auctioneers, London. Catalogue of autograph letters & historical documents, the property of George Edward Monckton, esq…consisting of the official correspondence of Colonel (afterwards Lieutenant-General) Robert Monckton, during his service in North America, 1752- 1763….. London: J. Davy & sons, 1921?

Stacey, C. P. Quebec, 1759. The Siege and the Battle. Toronto: The MacMillan Company, 1959.

Thompson, Gibson. …Westerham, with its surroundings; a handbook to Wolfe-land… London: The Homeland Association, ltd.[1911?]

University of Michigan. William L. Clements Library. Benjamin’s West’s “The death of Wolfe.” Ann Arbor: W.L. Clements, Univ. of Mich., 1928.

Warner, Oliver. With Wolfe to Quebec: the path to glory. Toronto: Collins, 1972.

Waugh, William Templeton. James Wolfe, a man and soldier. Montreal: L. Carrier & co., 1928.

Webster, John Clarence. “The first published life of James Wolfe.” Canadian Historical Review 11 (1930): 328 – 332.

 


Webster, John Clarence. “…A study of the portraiture of James Wolfe…”


Webster, John Clarence. “…A study of the portraiture of James Wolfe…”

  __________________. “Pictures of the death of Major-General James Wolfe.” Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 6 (1927) 30 – 36.

__________________. “…A study of the portraiture of James Wolfe…” Trans. of the Royal Society of Canada 19 (2) 1925): 47 – 65

_________________. “A visit to the birthplace of James Wolfe, the conqueror of Quebec.” The Canadian Magazine May 1897: 22 – 31

________________. Wolfe and the artists, a study of his portraiture. Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1930.

________________. Wolfe: bi-centenary celebration. Shediac: n. p.;[1927?]

________________. Wolfiana; a potpourri of facts and fantasies, culled from literature relating to the life of James Wolfe. Shediac: n.p. , 1927.


Whitton, Frederick Ernest. Wolfe and North America. Boston: Little, Brown, and company, 1929.

Willson, Beckles. “Fresh light on the Quebec campaign – from the missing journal of General Wolfe.” The Nineteenth Century March 1910: 445 – 460.

_____________. “General Wolfe and Gray’s ‘Elegy’.” The Nineteenth Century April 1913: 862 – 875.

____________ . The life and letters of James Wolfe. London: W. Heinemann, 1909.

Wolfe, James. “Wolfe to the Duke of Richmond.” University of Toronto Quarterly Oct 8.1 (1938), 11 – 40.

Wolfe, James. “Original correspondence of General Wolfe.” Tait’s Magazine (1849): 804 – 818.
 


Wolfe-Aylward, Mrs. Annie Elizabeth (Chennells). The pictorial life of Wolfe


Wright, Robert. The life of Major-General James Wolfe
 
Wolfe, James. General Wolfe’s instructions to young officers: also his orders for a battalion and an army. Together with the orders and signals used in embarking and debarking an army by flat-bottom’d boats, &c. And a placard to the Canadians. To which is prefixed, the resolution of the House of commons for his monument; and his character, and the dates of all his commissions. Also the duty of an adjutant and quarter master, & c. London: J. Millan, 1780.

Wolfe-Aylward, Mrs. Annie Elizabeth (Chennells). The pictorial life of Wolfe. Plymouth, England: W. Brendon and son, limited, 1926.

Wood, William Charles Henry. The winning of Canada; a chronicle of Wolfe. Toronto: Brook & company, 1920.

Wright, Robert. The life of Major-General James Wolfe. London: Chapman and Hall, 1864.


ARCHIVAL SOURCES


William Francis Ganong Fonds.

S 219  F 147 (item # 2) – Col. Murray’s report to Brig-Gen. Wolfe re attack on Acadian Settlement on Miramichi River. Louisbourgh, 1758 (copy)

Louise Manny Collection

S 184  F 45 (item # 73) – re vandalism (Quebec Mercury, 1844 news report re Wolfe obelisk)

F 46 (item # 33) - re (Atlantic Neptune Chart showing Miramichi Bay Fraser establishment at Beaubair’s Island, Louisburg expedition & Gen. Wolfe, etc.)

S 185 F 108 (item #17) Folk songs. Brave Wolfe.

F 112 (item #6) Folk songs. Gen. James Wolfe (from Nicholas Underhill)

S 187 F 226 Notes re Whitney memorials “Wolfe’s body and the Miramichi”

New Brunswick Museum. History Department. Records.

F 549 Wolfe (15 items)

John Clarence Webster. Collection

S 196 F 327 (item # 3) Correspondence – From Raymond Card (Toronto) 1944 insert letter “Gen. Wolfe – A one Act Play”

S 198 F 553 Correspondence from various persons re Gen. Wolfe’s ancestry, Wolfe’s embarkation 1740 on HMS York and his connection with various people. 1925-43.

F 553A Gen. James Wolfe’s standing orders, 1748 -1759, leatherbound manuscript.

F 554 Gen. Jame Wolfe autograph letter. 1758.

F 554A Letters from Wolfe to his friend Col. William Rickson, 1749 – 1758 (contained in article in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1849)

F 555 Wolfe’s journal, May 13, 1759 – Aug 16, 1759 (photocopy and transcript; Letter from W. Waugh and facsimile of Wolfe’s will)

F 556 Letter from James Lowell to Wolfe. Oct 18, 1759.

F 557 Alex Schomberg’s diary at Quebec with notes and drawing by Wolfe. July 11, 1759 – Sept 10, 1759 [photocopy]

F 558 Pages (4) from diary by unknown soldier in Wolfe’s army with list of the killed and wounded. July 31, 1759; Return of the killed in action. Sept. 13, 1759; Letters from A W. Edwards re diary. 1942.

F 560 Notes re Arthur Browne who was present at Wolfe’s death.

F 560A Speeches and articles re Gen. Wolfe by F. C. Wade

F 560B Correspondence from Gen. Wolfe and others taken from Frank T. Sabin’s collection of Wolfiana.

F 561 Wolfiana – a collection of notes, mostly copies from various sources by Mr. Drysdale of Montreal.

F 561A The Military Reputation of Major Gen. James Wolfe, by Prof. Adair McGill.

F 562 Photocopy of title page, “The life of Gen. James Wolfe” with Sir John Pringle’s signature. Photocopy, Letters re authenticity of Pringle’s signature.

F 563 Correspondence between JCW and the Montreal Star re Lyman B. Jacke’s articles re Wolfe. 1922 – 24

F 564 Correspondence from various people re Wolfe’s pistols, the bullet that killed Wolfe, Montcalm’s cranium and proposed donation of statue of Wolfe to Canada. 1921- 38

F 565 Poems and songs re Wolfe.

F 566A Brochures re unveiling of memorial tablet and Wolfe memorial service, 1908

F 567 Correspondence to JCW from various people re Wolfe Memorial Fund, Wolfe monument, tablet and statue, 1924 – 30.

F 568 Correspondence and other items re Wolfe Society. 1928 - 49

F 568a Correspondence from various individuals re their publications concerning Wolfe. 1921 – 1932

F 569 – F 570 Correspondence to JCW and other items re Quebec House, Westerham, England. 1921 – 49.

F 571 Correspondence re requests for donation of Wolfe items to Wolfeboro, New Hampshire Museum. 1932.

S 200 F 669 – 674 Correspondence to JCW re his acquisition of portraits of Wolfe, Statue of Wolfe and other Wolfiana. 1921 – 49.

S 201 F 675 Notebooks of JCW containing ..notes…re historical events especially re death of Wolfe.

F 691a Correspondence – publication the First Published life of James Wolfe.

F 713 Correspondence re Publication Wolfe and the arts: study of his portraiture.

F 714 Correspondence re Publication - Wolfiana: a pot-pourri of facts and fantasies culled from literature relating to the life of James Wolfe.

F 715 Correspondence re Publication - Wolfe Bicentenary celebration

S 201 – S 202 F 742 Articles and other documents – Wolfe

F 750 Notes – Wolfe

F 751 Notes - Wolfe

F 760 (item # 2) Ephemeral Wolfe


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