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Collection name. Stuart, Charles, Baron Stuart de Rothesay

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Identifier: Collection name

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of Sir Charles Stuart (later Baron Stuart de Rothesay), when British Ambassador to France; and facsimile of a copy of the “Memoire et vote définitif et final de la Cour de Vienne dans l’affaire Aldobrandini".

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15386-15390
Scope and Contents

The correspondence consists chiefly of letters to Charles Stuart from French officials and politicians, with drafts or copies of some of his replies and some petitions for help from British residents in or travellers through France, and from French citizens. There are also a few letters to him concerning his book-collecting activities.

Dates: 1815-1830, undated.

Official papers of Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, during his embassy to Paris, 1815-1830.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.6160-6246
Scope and Contents A series of volumes containing copies of dispatches, both outgoing and incoming, for each year of Charles Stuart's embassy, with a gap of four years, from 1824-1828, when he was recalled to England. The volumes were paginated, which makes it apparent that in many there are items missing; a list of missing pages has been placed at the beginning of each volume.The main topics of the reports concern the principal political events of the day: in addition to details of internal French...
Dates: 1814-1831.