Douglas, Sylvester, Baron Glenbervie, politician and diarist, 1743-1823
Person
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, notebooks, journals and other papers of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, Bishop Robert Douglas, and of the Douglas family and estates.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10229/1-132
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers, literary manuscripts and journals of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1744-1823) and of earlier members of the Douglas family, mainly his great-grandfather, Robert Douglas (1625-1716), Bishop of Brechin, 1682-1684, and the last Bishop of Dunblane (1684-1689) in the pre-Revolution episcopal establishment of the Church of Scotland; and his father, John Douglas of Fechil in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire (1714-1762).
Dates:
1597-1823.
Five letters of Sylvester Douglas, later Lord Glenbervie, to his sister and brother-in-law, Katherine and James Mercer, Aberdeen.
File
Identifier: Acc.12129
Dates:
1789-1797.
Letter of Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11980
Scope and Contents
Letter relates to genealogical work concerning his family.
Dates:
1809.
Letter of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13119
Dates:
1810.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Douglas, J. to Dowling., 1807-1923.
File
Identifier: MS.40342
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name. An additional letter has been added to the end of this sequence.Douglas, Jean.Letter, 1819, of Jean Douglas to John Murray II. Folios 1-2.Douglas, Robert Kennaway.Letters, 1893 and 1908, of Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas to John Murray IV. Folios 3-8.Douglas, Robert Langton.Letters, 1903 and 1923, of Robert Langton Douglas to Alexander...
Dates:
1807-1923.
Political and personal diaries of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10505
Dates:
1794-1819.
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