Letters, chiefly of and to Viscount Melville.
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Twenty-seven letters, 1798-1799, of Sir J T Duckworth to General Sir Charles Stuart, and four letters, 1798-1799, of Lord Keith to General Stuart (folio 1);
(ii) Two letters, 1803-1804, of Hugh Elliot to Sir John Acton (folio 49);
(iii) Eight letters, 1804, of Admiral Lord Alan Gardner to Viscount Melville (folio 54);
(iv) Letter, 1795, of George III to Viscount Melville (folio 71); printed in John Holland Rose, ‘Pitt and Napoleon, essays and letters’ (London, 1912), pages 237-238.
(v) Letter, 1805, of Vice-Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope to Viscount Melville (folio 72).
(vi) Letter, 1798, of Viscount Melville to the Earl of Mornington, with transcript; five letters, 1794-1804, of the Earl of Malmesbury to William Pitt and Lord Grenville; and one letter, 1805, of George Rose to Lord Grenville (folio 75);
(vii) Letter, 1808, of Viscount Melville to Lord Hawkesbury; letters of Lord Dartmouth, Earl Cornwallis, and Lord Amherst, 1793-1801, to John Dowdeswell; and various letters, including nineteen of Earl Spencer, 1795-1800, to Viscount Melville (folio 101).
Dates
- Creation: 1793-1808.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
202 Leaves ; Folio and under.
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Custodial History
The letters were bought by the National Library of Scotland with the aid of the Reid Fund.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought, Sotheby's, 14 November, 1955, lots 1058, 1064, 1070, 1073, 1082, 1114, 1115.
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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