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Microfilm of assorted papers of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company, the Gibson family, Robert Stevenson and Alexander Graham Dunlop.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.444
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Minute book, 1697-1698, of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company (Adv.MS.83.7.2);Legal and financial papers, 1825-1893, of the Gibson family, concerning the sale and purchase of property in the province of Buenos Aires, together with sketch maps, powers of attorney and other miscellaneous papers (MS.10328);Letters and a journal, 1817, of Robert Stevenson, the engineer, addressed to his daughter Jeanie during a visit he...
Dates: 1697-1698, 1817-1893.

Microfilm of papers, 1762-1811, received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son Robert, concerning the Islands of the Malay Archipelago and Pacific; journals kept by William Scott in Penang and Scotland; and, letters, [?1797-?1826], of and concerning John Leyden.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.973
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Papers, 1762-1811, received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville relating to the Islands of the Malay Archipelago and Pacific (Sumatra, Pelew, New Guinea, Sulu, Moluccas, Celebes, Penang) (MS.1068);Journals kept by William Scott, the sixth laird of Raeburn, in Penang and Scotland and on his voyages between them, 1794-1805, 1818-1819, with an account of a visit to Junk Ceylon, 1801 (MS.2896);...
Dates: 1762-[?1826].