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Correspondence and papers, 1793-1828, of Deputy Commissary General James Ogilvie, together with a small unrelated quantity of letters and chiefly printed papers, 1787-1835, undated, of the sons of Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15201-15336
Scope and Contents
James Ogilvie served throughout the Peninsular War firstly as Assistant, and from 22 March 1812 Deputy Commissary General, and the greater part of the collection relates to this period. It consists of: letters from, and statistical and other returns, vouchers, accounts and other financial papers submitted by, junior officers and clerks of the Commissariat Department; Ogilvie’s letters to the Commissaries General Sir Robert H Kennedy, Sir Charles Dalrymple and Thomas Dunmore, with their...
Dates:
1787-1835, undated.
Correspondence, diaries, business, and genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards family of Gardiner, Maine, and of the Ashburner family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20351-20400
Scope and Contents
The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...
Dates:
1773-1933, undated.
Editorial correspondence to George Bruce, concerning 'Scottish Poetry I-IX', a series of anthologies.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7440/1-6
Scope and Contents
Circa 100 letters, correspondents including Maurice Lindsay, Edwin Morgan and Alexander Scott, with a small number of typescripts of poems.
Dates:
1964-1973, undated.
Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive
Collection
Identifier: MSS.50707-50842
Scope and Contents
This collection reflects the personal life and artistic career of Lady Mackay (b.1941). The papers contain correspondence, sketchbooks and loose artworks, writing drafts and proofs, school records, personal and art-related photographs, family papers, and career-related ephemera.The collection has been arranged into five distinct series as follows:1. Correspondence of Lucinda Mackay (with friends, close acquaintances, painting subjects, patrons, other artists, and...
Dates:
1941-2022
Microfilm of papers chiefly of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2033-2037
Dates:
1797-[circa 1825].
Papers, including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, sketches and correspodence, of William McArthur.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6878 Box 1(1)-Box 13(30)
Scope and Contents
Including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, and sketches, and circa 500 letters to, and copies of letters of McArthur, mostly concerning the broadcasting of his works.
Dates:
1933-1961, undated.