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Correspondence.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Any forms of addressed and written communication sent and received, including letters, postcards, memorandums, notes, telegrams, or cables.

Found in 7214 Collections and/or Records:

Official correspondence sent by Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell, of Inverneil, to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, chiefly during the former's Governorship of Madras, 1786-1789.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3837-3839
Scope and Contents

The correspondence, which includes lengthy memoranda and minutes by Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell and others, deals in considerable detail with the political, civil, and military affairs of Madras, and covers such subjects as relations with the French, the Dutch, and the Indian Princes, finance, trade, army appointments, contracts, and topography.

Dates: 1785-1794.

Official Foreign Office correspondence of Alexander Graham Dunlop, who was later appointed Consul-General in Cuba., 1859-1862.

 File
Identifier: MS.9256
Scope and Contents

The correspondence consists of copies by Alexander Dunlop made from his original drafts, not from his actual despatches. Written while he was stationed in Vienna, Budapest, and Trieste, they concern the politics and commerce of Hungary, Austria, and Eastern Europe.

Dates: 1859-1862.

Official papers and correspondence, 1782-March 1783, of Sir Robert Liston as secretary to Lord Mountstuart in Turin., 1782-1783.

 File
Identifier: MS.5524
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Copies of Robert Liston's letters to Lord Grantham (folio 1);

(ii) Copies of Grantham's letters to Liston (folio 47);

(iii) Copies of official papers (folio 67).

Dates: 1782-1783.

Official papers of Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, during his embassy to Paris, 1815-1830.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.6160-6246
Scope and Contents A series of volumes containing copies of dispatches, both outgoing and incoming, for each year of Charles Stuart's embassy, with a gap of four years, from 1824-1828, when he was recalled to England. The volumes were paginated, which makes it apparent that in many there are items missing; a list of missing pages has been placed at the beginning of each volume.The main topics of the reports concern the principal political events of the day: in addition to details of internal French...
Dates: 1814-1831.

Official papers of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale as Governor of Madras and Commander-in-Chief at Madras., 1832-1848.

 File
Identifier: MS.14558
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Copy of the police report of Major E Armstrong 'on the attempt to murder the Europeans at Bangalore in 1832' (folio 1);

(ii) Papers concerning the 'Conduct of the population of Coorg on the occasion of the Insurrection in Canana', 1838 (folio 23);

(iii) Copies of official correspondence and memoranda, 1838-1848, concerning the pay of European troops in India (folio 40).

Dates: 1832-1848.

Order of, and copies of correspondence of, the Earl of Mar., 1715-1725.

 File
Identifier: MS.3140
Scope and Contents

Order of the Earl of Mar, giving protection to all Episcopal and Presbyterian Ministers, 1715 (folio 2), and copies of correspondence of Mar and his Counters with Prince James Edward and Princess Clementina, 1715-1725 (folio 4).

Dates: 1715-1725.