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 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

correspondence, chiefly copies, of the 1st Earl of Mnito's letters., 1808-1813.

 File
Identifier: MS.11296
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Sir George Nugent, 1812-1813 (folio 40); Hugh Hope in Java, 1811 (folio 122); Major General John Abercromby, 1810-1811 (folio 153); Major General Sir John Malcolm, 1810-1811 (folio 195); and John Lumsden, Director of the East India Company, concerning Archibald Seton, Governor of Penang, 1813, (folio 211).

Dates: 1808-1813.

Correspondence chiefly of the Earls of Wigtown on local and estate affairs., 1619-1812.

 File
Identifier: MS.20772
Scope and Contents

Also included are a copy of a letter, 1606, of John Welch; a copy of a letter, 1711, on the Regalia of Scotland to the Abbot of Ratisbon; letters, 1715, to the Earl Marischal; a letter of, and passport signed by, President James Monroe, 1811; and 4 letters, undated, of Galhart Darguell to the 4th Lord Fleming as Warden of the West Marches.

Dates: 1619-1812.

Correspondence, chiefly official, of the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, consisting of letters addressed to him and copies and drafts of letters written by him., 1779-1824, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2568-2576
Scope and Contents

The correspondence deals with the Egyptian campaign, 1800-1801; operations and other affairs in the West Indies, 1802-1814 (the chase of the Rochefort squadron, General de Miranda, Barbados); the North American Station, 1814-1815 (coastal operations, prisoners of war, dealings with Native Indians); and naval matters in general (suggestions, patronage, prize-money, etc.).

Dates: 1779-1824, undated.

Correspondence concerning a proposal to publish an abridged translation of the mediaeval Latin dictionary of Charles du Fresne du Cange., 1880-1898, 1944.

 File
Identifier: MS.42616
Scope and Contents

The letters held are all that is left of a once "immense" correspondence concerning the proposal to publish the dictionary. Much of the correspondence was destroyed in 1942.

Dates: 1880-1898, 1944.

Correspondence concerning "The Representative" newspaper., 1824-1826.

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Identifier: MS.42625
Scope and Contents

The correspondence concerns the establishment and failure of "The Representative". The correspondents include :

John Murray II;

Isaac D`Israeli;

Benjamin Disraeli;

Thomas Brande;

Walter Henry Watts;

John Diston Powles;

Sharon Turner.

Dates: 1824-1826.

Correspondence concerning the separation of Lord and Lady Byron., 1816-1870.

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Identifier: MS.43520
Scope and Contents The correspondence and other items in this folder relate to the separation of Lord Byron and his wife, Anne Isabella Noel Byron (Lady Byron), in early 1816. Some of these letters appeared in 'Contemporary account of the separation of Lord and Lady Byron; also of the destruction of Lord Byron's memoirs' (London; privately printed, 1870). The letters have been arranged chronologically.Some of the letters are housed with their exhibition labels from the 1974 'Byron: an exhibition...
Dates: 1816-1870.

Correspondence, notes, proofs and press cuttings concerning 'Letters and Journals of Lord Byron', by Thomas Moore and to the events surrounding the destruction of the memoirs of Lord Byron, 1821-1835, 1938, undated.

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Identifier: MS.43538
Scope and Contents The letters here have been arranged alphabetically by correspondent surname. Notes relating to Lord Byron have then been placed, with printed material ordered chronologically at the end of the sequence.When first made available for consultation, before foliation, this folder contained notes relating to a meeting regarding the placement of a statue of Lord Byron. These were identified during cataloguing as relating to notes in Ms.43533, so have been moved to that folder at...
Dates: 1821-1835, 1938, undated.

Correspondence of Alexander Carlyle with his more frequent correspondents, including some copies and excerpts of letters., 1758-1803, undated.

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Identifier: MS.23763
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) copies, made on paper watermarked 1839, of letters 1795-1799, 1803 of Cuthbert (later 1st Baron) Collingwood, with some other related correspondence and papers (folio 1). Printed from the originals in Edward Hughes, editor, ‘The private correspondence of Admiral Lord Collingwood’, ‘Navy Records Society Publications’, volume xcviii, 1957. Other copies of the letters, made about 1840, are in MS.1811. (ii) Letters written between 1773 and 1805 with some...
Dates: 1758-1803, undated.

Correspondence of and collected by the Very Reverend John Lee, together with some papers., 1637-1873, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3430-3449
Scope and Contents The earlier material (MSS.3430-3431) consists almost entirely of correspondence of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and includes appointments of Commissioners to the Assembly from 1638 onwards; accounts of the intrusion of ministers into parishes, and similar disputes, 1702-1755; reports on the prevalence of Roman Catholicism, with lists of papists and renunciations of popery, 1703-1751; and correspondence on the supply of books especially to the Highlands, in association with...
Dates: 1637-1873, undated.

Correspondence of Archibald Constable, publisher, Edinburgh, his firm and his family; with one volume of the manuscript of a work published in "Constable's miscellany".

 Series
Identifier: MSS.668-684
Scope and Contents

The correspondents include many of the most celebrated men (chiefly literary) of the time.

Dates: 1788-1856.

Correspondence of Arthur Murray., 1909-1962, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8805-8812
Scope and Contents

MSS.8806-8807 consist chiefly of drafts and copies of telegrams in connexion with Arthur Murray's work as an Assistant Military Attaché in the Diplomatic Mission to the United States of America during the latter part of the Great War.

Dates: 1909-1962, undated.