Skip to main content

Documents.

 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:

Papers received from Thomas Cockburn, formerly of the Madras Civil Service., 1806-1807.

 File
Identifier: MS.11612
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) ‘Observations on the transfer of the Indian Debt by Joseph Thompson, Accountants Office, East India House', September 1806 (folio 1); (ii) 'Memorandum on the subject of the liquidation of the Indian debt first suggested to the Chairman in 1803' (folio 20); (iii) 'Observations of Mr. Cockburn on proposed letter to Bengal, Madras and Bombay, on a uniform coinage for India', February 1806 (folio 26); (iv) 'Notes on Treasury Bills', [1806] (folio 32); (v)...
Dates: 1806-1807.

Papers relating to China received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville., 1781-1823, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.1069
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows.

(i) Papers concerning general affairs and trade, 1781-1823, undated, including debts owed by the Chinese at Canton to George Smith, a merchant there, and other British subjects; the trade in tin and tea; and affrays between the British and Chinese; with accounts of places on the route from India to China (folio 1);

(ii) The case of J J Voute and Sons and their purchase of tea, 1787-1788 (folio 214).

Dates: 1781-1823, undated.

Papers relating to Eastern shipping received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville., 1786-1817, 1825, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.1066
Scope and Contents

The papers concern the Company's shipping (ship-building, sailings, personnel, victualling, cargoes, harbours, the supply of timber in the East); also dealings of the Royal Navy with the Company and other matters connected with Eastern waters.

Dates: 1786-1817, 1825, undated.

Papers relating to India received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville., 1787-1812, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.1064
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Papers relating to trade, 1787-1812, undated. Many of the papers deal with cotton (including resolutions, etc., of cotton-spinners and drapers in Great Britain). There is also material about the renewal of the Company's charter, private trading, and the proposed importation of Indian rice into England at the time of the dearth, 1800 (folio 149). The cases of individual merchants are included. (Folio 1.)(ii) The debts of the Nawab of the...
Dates: 1787-1812, undated.

Papers relating to the 4th Earl of Minto's service as Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada., 1883-1886.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12549-12555
Scope and Contents

The 4th Earl of Minto's main preoccupations were with the raising of a voyageur force for service in Egypt, the employment of Canadian forces in the imperial service, and the rebellion of Louis Riel in the North-West in which he was personally involved.

Dates: 1883-1886.

Papers relating to the collieries at Urquhart and Lochgelly., 1703-1792.

 File
Identifier: MS.13304
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Papers relating to conditions of employment of colliers at Urquhart and Lochgelly, 1730-1743, 1783, 1792, including bonds of coalhewers to the mines, papers relating to renegade colliers, and petitions, etc., concerning the position of the coalgrieve (folio 1);(ii) Lists of absences from the Urquhart colliery, 1743-1744 (folio 78);(iii) Miscellaneous bills and receipts relating to the collieries, 1703, 1705, 1729-1746, consisting...
Dates: 1703-1792.

Papers relating to the collieries at Urquhart and Lochgelly., 1582-1888.

 File
Identifier: MS.13305
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows.

(i) Papers relating to the disputed march between the lands of Urquhart and Pittencrieff, 1582 (18th century copy), 1635-1636, 1697-1753 (folio 1);

(ii) Coal tacks and related papers for Urquhart and Lochgelly, 1723-1746, 1860, 1872, 1888 (folio 23);

(iii) Legal reports and memoranda relating to coal, 1658, 1682, 1729-1747, including a report by William Adam on the Lochgelly coal, 1747 (folio 219).

Dates: 1582-1888.

Papers relating to the Near East received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville., 1790-1810, 1827, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.1071
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Papers concerning routes to India by the Red Sea and overland, the possibilities of a French or Russian attack on India from the north-west, the missions of John Malcolm and Sir Harford Jones to Persia, and affairs in Greece, Turkey, Afghanistan, etc., 1790-1810, undated (folio 1);

(ii) Correspondence between Commodore Gawen W Hamilton, Prince Alexandras Maurokordatos, and others on Greek affairs, 1827 (copies).

Dates: 1790-1810, 1827, undated.

Papers, undated, concerning military and historical matters., [1799-1842].

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.9.19
Scope and Contents

The volume includes papers concerning the Alkmaar operations of 1799 (folio 74) the campaign of the Aaland Islands in 1808 (folio 82), Waterloo (folio 110), Caesar`s Commentaries (folio 190), and Agincourt (folio 210), and an autobiographical memoir by Murray (folio 224).

Dates: [1799-1842].