Dundas, Robert Saunders, 2nd Viscount Melville (politician)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1771-1851. - 1851
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
29 letters and an enclosure of Frederick, Duke of York to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount, and Robert Sanders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville.
File
Identifier: Acc.10009 [MISSING]
Dates:
1798-1823.
Copies of letters to Robert S. Dundas., 1825.
Item
Identifier: MS.30003, folios 14-17, 20-23
Correspondence and papers of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and of Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount, on Indian affairs.
File
Identifier: Acc.12001
Dates:
1790-1838.
Letter of Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, to Messrs Spottiswoode and Robertson, Solicitors, London.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10957
Dates:
1810.
Letter, undated, of Francis Horner to Francis Jeffrey.
File
Identifier: Acc.6070
Scope and Contents
With single letters of the 2nd Viscount Melville, 1845, the 2nd Viscount Melbourne, 1834, and letter, 1802, to Robert Chiene.
Dates:
1802, 1834, 1845 and undated.
Letters of and to Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald mostly concerning his treatises on telegraphic communication systems, but also others of his publications, and with some financial and legal papers., 1791-1825.
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Identifier: MS.50699
Scope and Contents
Letters of correspondents at the Admiralty.Barrow, JohnLetter, 1 September 1814, of John Barrow, Southampton, to John Macdonald praising his telegraphic system. Folios 1-2.Letter, 13 May 1817, of John Barrow, Admiralty, London, to John Macdonald stating that his work on telegraphic communication has been laid before the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Folios 3-4.Letter, 22 August 1818, of John Barrow, Admiralty, London, to John Macdonald...
Dates:
1791-1825.
Letters to 2nd Viscount Melville.
File
Identifier: Acc.5506
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Sir David Dundas, Rowland Hill, Charles Arbuthnot and 3rd Earl of Hopetoun.
Dates:
1794-1830.
Photocopies of correspondence of Scottish settlers and traders in Jamaica., 1699-1846.
File
Identifier: MS.50276
Scope and Contents
Letter, 1813, of Rear Admiral W Brown to Robert Dundas, Viscount Melville, concerning naval protection for the West India trade (folio 1).Letter, 1795, of Bryan Edwards to Henry Dundas concerning the Haitian Revolution and a possible British invasion of St Domingo (folio 8).Letter, 1762, of Alan Cameron to an unnamed correspondent concerning a possible meeting in Port au Prince (folio 9).Letter, 1735, of Henry Cunningham to Spencer Compton, Viscount...
Dates:
1699-1846.