West Indies. Archipelago.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of the first volume of the memoirs of Hector MacNeill.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9037-is now MS.50257
Dates:
circa 1780-1818.
Correspondence of the Ewen and McIlwraith families.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7041
Scope and Contents
Concerning the West Indies and tea planting in India.
Dates:
circa 1780-circa 1885.
Letter, 1868, of William Wright to his mother in Ayrshire.
File
Identifier: Acc.5945
Scope and Contents
Concerning journey to West Indies.
With genealogical note, 19th century, and copy of the regulations of Ballantrae cemetary (Girvan, 1878).
Dates:
1868-circa 1899.
Letters from George Rose to Sir John Orde concerning the governorship of Dominica.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13685
Scope and Contents
The correspondence chiefly relates to the governorship of Dominica under Sir John Orde.
Dates:
1784-1808
Letters from Jamaica of John Clark, John Cunningham and Colin MacLarty to friends and relatives at Greenock.
File
Identifier: MS.50258
Scope and Contents
Clark, JohnLetter, 1772, of John Clark to Peggy Clark concerning the death of his uncle and the dangers of excessive drinking (folios 1-2).Cunningham, JohnLetters, 1776-1801, of John Cunningham to Peggy Clark concerning his voyage to Jamaica, sale of a share in a plantation, the sale of enslaved people, the Second Maroon War, his health and his desire to return to Scotland (folios 3-22).MacLarty, ColinLetters, 1790 and 1792, of...
Dates:
1772-1801.
Manuscript draft of an article addressed to the MP for Lanarkshire, concerning colonial policy in the West Indies.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7544
Dates:
circa 1840.
Photocopies of 14 letters, mainly to Mrs Peter Brown, from her sons Peter and Robert, at school and in the West Indies.
File
Identifier: Acc.9019-is now MS.50268
Dates:
1815-1845.
Photocopies of papers concerning Scots and the West Indies.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.6465-is now MSS.50273-50276
Dates:
1699, 1735-1846.
Photocopies of papers concerning Scots and the West Indies.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.50273-50276
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of correspondence of and concerning Scots in Jamaica, including letters of the Earl of Balcarres, the Fyffe family and other Scots in Jamaica.
Typewritten lists concenring materials of Scottish interest in the National Library of Jamaica, formerly the West India Reference Library.
Typewritten list of Scottish place names in Jamaica.
Dates:
1699; 1735-1846.
'The memoirs [and] reflections of Hr McNiell [of the Harp], written by himself', a manuscript copy of the first volume of the memoirs of Hector MacNeill.
Item
Identifier: MS.50257
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in various hands.Title page, including an epigram, in Latin, of Cicero (folio iii).'Chap. I The Authors Parentage.' Information concerning MacNeill’s grandfather and father (pages 1-9).'Chap. II. An unfashionable picture of Domestic Life.' An account of the MacNeills’ domestic life at their home at Rosebank, near Roslin, and subsequently near Loch Lomond (pages 9-17).'Chap. 3d. Some account of the Author.' Information...
Dates:
1804, 1912.
Three autograph letters from Jane Cochrane, daughter of Sir Alexander Cochrane, relating to life in the West Indies and her father`s governorship of Guadeloupe.
File
Identifier: Acc.13186-is now MS.50277 folios 92-109
Dates:
1810-1814.
Transcript of the journals of John Mair.
File
Identifier: Acc.6748-is now MS.50267
Scope and Contents
Concerning travels in the West Indies.
Dates:
1776-1791.
Transcript of the journals of John Mair.
File
Identifier: MS.50267
Content Description
Details concerning Mair’s travels from London to the West Indies via Madeira, during which he visited Barbados, Tobago, Grenada, the Grenadines, St Vincent, St Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Dominica, and his purchase of an estate and enslaved people in Dominica (folios 1-15). Particulars concerning Mair’s return journey from Dominica to London, the impact of Britain’s conflict with France and America on British colonies in the Caribbean and details of Mair’s plantation...
Dates:
1776-1791.
Two letter books and one account book of Major-General Sir Paulus Irving, as Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8343-is now MSS.50279-50281
Dates:
1795.
Two letter books and one account book of Major-General Sir Paulus Irving, as Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.50279-50281
Dates:
1795-1801.