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Autobiography of Robert Douglas (1727-1809), Colonel of Marines in the Dutch Army and Lieutenant-General and Commander of the town of 's-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc).
Item
Identifier: MS.8909
Scope and Contents
The author, a younger brother of Admiral Sir James Douglas, 1st Baronet, of Springwood Park, saw service in the British army before going to Holland in 1747. His autobiography, written in 1805, is mainly concerned with military, family, and social life in Holland.The present text is a copy (perhaps a translation) made after 1864, with copies of additional material, including: a small water-colour portrait of Robert Douglas (folio i); extract of a letter, 1772, concerning his...
Dates:
1805.
Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8832-8873
Scope and Contents
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Dates:
1799-1853, undated.
Papers of the family of Scott Plummer of Sunderland Hall.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11136
Dates:
17th century to 20th century.