Collection name. Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville
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Identifier: Collection name
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, almost entirely of the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville.
File
Identifier: MS.3841
Scope and Contents
The principal correspondent is Admiral Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane. His letters, and others accompanying them, deal with smuggling (folios 1-11), the disposition of military and naval forces while Cochrane was blockading Ferrol in 1804-1805 (folios 18-25), matters relating to Cochrane's commands, 1806, 1810, 1814, in the West Indies and on the North American station (folios 26-41, 46-55), and the court-martial, 1823, of a Captain George Harris, in which Cochrane was involved...
Dates:
1792-1824.
Correspondence, chiefly of the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville.
Series
Identifier: MS.3835
Dates:
1776-1836, undated.
Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1041-1079
Scope and Contents
Volumes entitled 'Individuals' contain correspondence regarding patronage and other matters of personal interest (requests for employment, promotion, and pensions, complaints of unjust treatment, etc.). These papers frequently give information of a more general kind.
Dates:
1759-1861, undated.
Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1-67
Scope and Contents
Contains also some copies of replies or of draft replies.
Dates:
1760-1838.
Letters and other documents received by the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3844-3851
Dates:
1787-1823.