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Correspondence and papers, 1793-1828, of Deputy Commissary General James Ogilvie, together with a small unrelated quantity of letters and chiefly printed papers, 1787-1835, undated, of the sons of Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15201-15336
Scope and Contents
James Ogilvie served throughout the Peninsular War firstly as Assistant, and from 22 March 1812 Deputy Commissary General, and the greater part of the collection relates to this period. It consists of: letters from, and statistical and other returns, vouchers, accounts and other financial papers submitted by, junior officers and clerks of the Commissariat Department; Ogilvie’s letters to the Commissaries General Sir Robert H Kennedy, Sir Charles Dalrymple and Thomas Dunmore, with their...
Dates:
1787-1835, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan (1873-1952).
Series
Identifier: MSS.25260-25273
Scope and Contents
Hugh Macmillan was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1897 and took silk in 1912. In 1924 he became non-political Lord Advocate in the first Labour government of Ramsay Macdonald, and was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 1930-1939, 1941-1947, and Minister of Information, 1939-1940. His talents for chairmanship resulted in appointments to the chair of several important committees and organisations of which the best known was the 'Macmillan Committee', the Treasury Committee on Finance and...
Dates:
1911-1952.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Charles Stuart (created Baron Stuart de Rothesay in 1828), British Ambassador to France, 1815-1830.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21261-21328
Scope and Contents
The contents of the collection range from 1800 to 1847 with a few later, and many undated items. Most (about two-thirds) of the collection concern Sir Charles Stuarts years as ambassador.
Dates:
1800-1868, undated.
Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.13601-14193
Scope and Contents
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1592-1594, 1734-1830, undated
Correspondence, diaries, business, and genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards family of Gardiner, Maine, and of the Ashburner family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20351-20400
Scope and Contents
The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...
Dates:
1773-1933, undated.
Microfilm of official papers of Sir Robert Liston concerning the mission to Bavaria and Ratisbon.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1348
Dates:
1774-1776.
Microfilm of papers chiefly of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2033-2037
Dates:
1797-[circa 1825].
Microfilm of papers of John Rennie and his family.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.341
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Papers, [?Circa 1783-?1821] (Acc.5111, numbers 33, 34);
Letter book, 1793-1794, of John Rennie (MS.19936);
Letter book, 1800, of John Rennie (MS.19937).
The dates are taken from the accession records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.
Dates:
[?Circa 1783-?1821.]
Microfilm of the Indian Papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, 1806-1814 (Microform Academic Publishers).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1910
Scope and Contents
The microfilms in this series have been described to a basic standard.
The dates are taken from the records for the original manuscripts and might not be the specific dates of the documents on each microfilm.
Dates:
1806-1814.
Microfilm of the Indian Papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, 1806-1814. Reels 37-136.(Microform Academic Publishers).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2116-2219
Scope and Contents
The microfilms in this series have been described to a basic standard.
The dates are taken from the original accession record and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.
Dates:
1806-1814.
Papers and correspondence of Professor John Dover Wilson (1881-1969), the Shakespearean scholar.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.14306-14400
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1892-1968, undated.
Papers of Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux.
Series
Identifier: MSS.25161-25174
Scope and Contents
Charles Grant was born in Mauritius in 1749, was brought up in Normandy and went into the army. He was created Vicomte de Vaux in 1777, and Chevalier de l'Ordre de Saint Louis in 1790. As a result of the French Revolution he went into exile in 1790, first in Jersey and later in London in 1793. Here he put himself forward for an administrative post in Canada and tried to raise an emigre regiment to be commanded by himself.
His papers reflect his career and interests, and he made use of some...
Dates:
1676-1824, undated.
Papers of John Rennie (1761-1821), engineer.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.19771-19965
Scope and Contents
John Rennie was one of the distinguished group of Scottish engineers whose work contributed so much to the industrial and commercial development of the United Kingdom in the early 19th century. With the exception of roads, in which he appears not to have been interested, and steam engines, which he promised Watt not to build - though he frequently constructed the accompanying machinery - there was very little in the field of engineering that lay outside the range of his activities.
This...
Dates:
1768-1821, undated.
Papers of Sir Robert Liston, diplomatist.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.5510-5721A
Scope and Contents
After serving his apprenticeship as Secretary and Chargé d'Affaires at the courts of Munich, Ratisbon, Berlin, Turin and Madrid, Robert Liston was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid in 1784.After leaving Madrid he was the British Representative at Stockholm, Constantinople, Washington, The Hague, and again at Constantinople.Within each regional section there are two main categories, official and personal. The first contains documents, with instructions or...
Dates:
1756-1832.
Political correspondence and papers of Archibald Philip Primrose (1847-1929), 5th Earl of Rosebery, statesman and author.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10001-10216
Scope and Contents
Rosebery, styled Lord Dalmeny from the death of his father in 1851 until he succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1868, held various public offices including those of Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1881-1883, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, February to July 1886, and again in 1892-1894, and was Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury from 5 March 1894 to 25 June 1895, remaining leader of the Liberal party till 1898.The papers consist chiefly...
Dates:
1860-1927, undated.