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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:

Correspondence and papers of Sir Charles Stuart (created Baron Stuart de Rothesay in 1828), British Ambassador to France, 1815-1830.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21261-21328
Scope and Contents

The contents of the collection range from 1800 to 1847 with a few later, and many undated items. Most (about two-thirds) of the collection concern Sir Charles Stuarts years as ambassador.

Dates: 1800-1868, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Sir George Henry Rose., 1794-1854, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3797
Scope and Contents

Associated with this volume are Sir George Henry Rose's Star of the Royal Guelphic Order and his Pitt Club Medal, both at the back of the volume.

Dates: 1794-1854, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Sir George Taylor, botanist, including diaries and photographs relating to botanical expeditions to Africa and the Himalayas.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9533/1-414
Scope and Contents Sir George participated in three major botanical expeditions (to South Africa, 1927-8, East Africa, 1934-5, and Tibet and Bhutan, 1938) which are illustrated in letters, photographs and diaries.Correspondence of special interest includes letters from botanical explorers Frank and Jean Kingdon Ward, George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow (mostly from Burma, Tibet and Bhutan) and from King Gustav of Sweden and Stanley Smith (the latter discussing the possible foundation of a...
Dates: 1792-1990.

Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto., 1773-1822.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.11042-11739
Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates: 1773-1822.

Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto., 1789-1859.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.11740-12237
Scope and Contents Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: 1789-1859.

Correspondence and papers of Sir Henry Lindsay Bethune.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8959
Scope and Contents

Concerning Bethune`s military career in Persia.

Including instructions, firmans (royal mandate or decree), commissions and bills.

Dates: 1813-1851.

Correspondence and papers of Sir John Burdon-Sanderson and financial papers concerning his trust., 1828, 1855-1931, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20501-20502
Scope and Contents

The correspondence consists for the most part of letters addressed to John Burdon-Sanderson by colleagues. There are also a few drafts of replies and a few letters from members of his family. There are no letters written between 1876 and 1886 or between 1895 and 1898.

Dates: 1828, 1855-1931, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Sir John Dalrymple, 4th Baronet.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9928
Scope and Contents

Includes papers on inventions and a series of caricatures Dalrymple planned with James Gillray.

Dates: 1793-1810 and undated.