DOCUMENTS OF 1759–1765

[CONQUEST OF MANILA BY THE ENGLISH, 1762, AND OTHER EVENTS, 1762–1765]
[Plan of an expedition for the conquest of the southern Philippines]. [Sir William Draper?; ca., 1759?]
[Letters to Clevland]. Admiral Samuel Cornish; October 31, and November 10, 1762.
[Letter to Lord Anson]. Admiral Samuel Cornish; November 1, 1762.
[Letters to Earl of Egremont]. Sir William Draper; November 1, and November 2, 1762.
[Draper’s Journal]. Sir William Draper; 1762.
[Rojo’s Journal]. Manuel Antonio de Rojo y Vieyra; December 23, 1762.
[Anda and the English invasion, 1762–1764]. Simon de Anda y Salazar, and others; October 8, 1762-March 9, 1764.
[Rojo’s narrative]. Manuel Antonio de Rojo y Vieyra; [1763].
[Synopsis of letter to Cárlos III]. Simon de Anda y Salazar; June 22, 1764.
[Letter to Cárlos III]. Simon de Anda y Salazar; July 23, 1764.
[Letter to Gonzalez]. Baltasar Vela, S.J.; July 24, 1764.
[Synopsis of communications to Cárlos III]. Simon de Anda y Salazar; June-July, 1764.
[Draper’s defense]. In two parts. I. A plain narrative. [Sir William Draper; 1764?]. II. Colonel Draper’s answer to the Spanish arguments. Sir William Draper; 1764.
[Letter to Rueda]. Eugenio Carrion, S.J.; July 8, 1765.
[Letter to Mesquida]. Bernardo Pazuengos, S.J.; July 20, 1765.
[References].

Sources: The first document, the third, and the first part of the fourth, are from MSS. in the British Museum; the second, second part of the fourth, and the fifth, are from Scots Magazine for 1763; the sixth, from Le Gentil’s Voyage, ii, pp. 232–235, 236, 237–239, 241, 242, 243–247, 248–252, 255–259; the seventh and eighth, from original MSS. belonging to the Ayer Collection; the ninth, tenth, and twelfth, from the Ventura del Arco transcripts (Ayer Collection); the eleventh, fourteenth, and fifteenth, from the original MSS. in the Simancas archives; the thirteenth, from the two publications named therein; the sixteenth, editorial compilation of titles.

Translations and Compilations: These are by James A. Robertson.