Correspondence with related papers between Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melviile, and Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount, as First Lords of the Admiralty, and Admiral George Keith Elphinstone, Viscount Keith, largely during his commands in the Mediterranean, 1798-1802, and the North Sea and Channel, 1803-1815.
Scope and Contents
The correspondence is semi-official in nature, consisting of reports by Keith on the dispositions of his ships, tactics, manning, armament, and stores, with many replies of the Lords Melville. Particular subjects include: attempts to block Boulogne harbour, and the use of Robert Fulton's new weapons, 1804; projected attacks on French ships in Atlantic harbours, 1812-1814; and much discussion of the activities of Sir Home Popham's squadron aiding Wellington's army and the Spanish guerillas off the northern coasts of Spain, and later in French waters, 1812-1814.
Dates
- Creation: 1797-1815.
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Extent
2 Volumes ; Folio and under.
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought, 1963.
Bibliography
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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