Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection includes the fair copy (not autograph) of Maitland’s ‘Narrative of the Principal Occurrences on board HMS Bellerophon’, and journals of his naval service in South America, 1819-20, the Mediterranean 1820-1, and 1828-30, and India, 1837-9. It also includes a number of printed books relating to Napoleon, particularly to the time he spent on St Helena. Some of these were written by Barry O’Meara and dedicated by him to Maitland with whom he had served as surgeon...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Pay-bills, 1816, 1818-1820. Those for 1816 are for Thomas Robertson's salary only. (Folio 1.) (ii) Boatswain's, carpenter's, and gunner's demands and accounts, 1816-1820. (Folio 21.) (iii) Lists of defects to be made good, 1817-1819 (Folio 62.) (iv) Certificates of pilotage, 1817-1820. (Folio 74.) (v) Miscellaneous accounts and papers, 1804, 1815-1820, including a leaf from a log-book, a record of ships boarded, and abstracts of wages and beer-money. (Folio...

Scope and Contents The album also contains a "Sketch of the Erik's Log . . . May 2 to Oct 30 1876" (folio 17).The album was presented to George L M Gibbs in 1877 by the (unidentified) gunner of the ship, who presumably compiled it. Excerpts from the 1871 log of the ‘Erik’ were published by R W Gray in an article entitled 'The Peterhead whalers' [no. XII] in the ‘Buchan observer’, 12 March 1929 (MS.9504, folio 77). The ‘Erik’, which was at that time a Dundee ship, was subsequently owned by Gray's...

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The volume may have been intended for publication as an appendix to, or the later chapters of, MS.13778: 'Account of a voyage to the North West coast of America...’.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Most of the letters addressed to the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale (MSS.7044-7074) date from 1742 to 1745 and are written to the Marquess in his capacity as Secretary of State for Scotland. They include regular letters on Scottish affairs from the Keeper of the Signet, the Lord Advocate, the Solicitor General, and others; a series of letters (mostly copies and in duplicate) on the progress of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion from Sir John Cope and others; and a large number of letters soliciting the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...

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During the voyage the ship encountered a severe storm off the Cape of Good Hope (folio 23).

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: 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...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...

Scope and Contents In 1819 the ‘Cornwall’ was bought by the East India Company and refitted under the command of Captain William Richardson (a description of the refit is on folio i). She then made several voyages carrying cargo from Bombay to the Persian Gulf and to Mocha in the Yemen. She also took part in Sir William Grant Keir's expedition of 1819 to suppress pirates in the Persian Gulf, and the log describes the siege of Ras al-Khaima. In 1821 she carried troops for Sir Lionel Smith's campaign against the...

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After working briefly in the hospital at Madras, Henry Robert Oswald, junior, was posted to the 13th Native Infantry Regiment.

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After working briefly in the hospital at Madras, Henry Robert Oswald, junior, was posted to the 13th Native Infantry Regiment.

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After working briefly in the hospital at Madras, Henry Robert Oswald, junior, was posted to the 13th Native Infantry Regiment.

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The log of the ‘Charles Grant’ concerns a voyage from London to Bombay, January-May 1815, carrying troops, cargo, and passengers. It is followed (folio 67 verso) by the log of the ‘Humayoon Shah’, carrying cargo and passengers from Bombay to Canton and back, June 1815-February 1816.

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The entries sometimes complement and sometimes repeat those in MS.2896. They are usually of a more formal character, giving merely weather, position, and distance covered, and many appear to have been copied from other logs; e.g., those describing the passage of the Phoenix to St Helena (pages 33-40), at which island William Scott first joined her.

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The papers consist of:

(i) Extracts from the log of the East India Company ship 'Exeter', 1803-1804, including a description of an engagement with the French (folio 1);

(ii) Embroidery patterns, 19th century (folio 13);

(iii) Latin hexameters deploring the British attitude to war in the late 18th century (folio 17);

(iv) Miscellaneous papers, 1836-1907, undated (folio 29).

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Logs contain information on stores and provisions taken onboard and provide details on locations, weather, sails employed, repairs, singals given and received and other ships encountered.