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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Physical or digital representations of a body of information designed with the capacity to communicate. In its broadest sense, ""documents"" include any item amenable to cataloging and indexing, that is, including nonprint media. For the activity of gathering and recording information, see ""documentation (function)""For specfic types of documents, see concepts under ""document genres."".

Found in 1533 Collections and/or Records:

'Etat des fonctions et Recette de la Charge d'Exemps des Gardes du Corps pour les Cérémonies dont j'ai été revetu le 23. Octobre 1751', being a copy of the record of ceremonies attended by Joseph Morin de Romainvilliers in his official capacity., 1751-1775.

 File
Identifier: MS.25174
Scope and Contents

Most of these were church services and they include descriptions of the funeral ceremonies for Marie Leczinska and Louis XV, 1768, 1774, and the coronation of Louis XVI, 1775. Morin de Romainvilliers was succeeded in the post of Exempt des gardes du corps by Charles Grant in 1777. The document is followed (folio 32) by notes on the duties of the different corps of guards at court.

Dates: 1751-1775.

Family and general correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Hislop., 1783-1843.

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Identifier: MS.13111
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters of his illegitimate son Lieutenant William Hislop, Bengal Army, 1822-1824, with letters, 1829, concerning his death at Kotah, Rajaputana (folio 1);(ii) Letters of his illegitimate daughter Caroline Bridget Van Baerle and her children, 1837-1843 (folio 26);(iii) General correspondence and papers, 1783-1842, including letters of Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick,...
Dates: 1783-1843.

Family and general correspondence and the diplomatic papers of Hugh Elliot (1752-1830), younger brother of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1771-1820, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.12952-13059
Scope and Contents Hugh Elliot was British ambassador successively in Munich and Ratisbon, Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris, Dresden and Naples, then governor of the Leeward Islands, and finally of Madras. Elliot was partly educated in France, and from 1770 until his withdrawal from Naples in 1806 he was almost permanently on the Continent. His diplomatic papers, especially those relating to the Copenhagen and Naples embassies, are rich in material for the general political history of Europe. He also enjoyed wide...
Dates: 1771-1820, undated.