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The manuscript appears to be a contemporary copy, made by or on behalf of Alexander Walker, of an incomplete account of his first-hand campaign experience.

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The manuscript is headed "extracts from a Journal by Sergeant Clark Scotch Greys" (folio 1), but it appears to be a continuous narrative. It appears to be complete, but it is not known how long after the events described or in whose hand this manuscript was written.

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William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The collection consists largely of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century correspondence. The chief correspondents are the members of the family most active in public life, and their letters are on the whole more concerned with public than with personal affairs, though there is some discussion of family matters in the seventeenth-century letters. The most important and extensive correspondence is that of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, which dates from 1660 to 1697, and covers most of his...

Scope and Contents Many of the letters in this volume are duplicates of those in MSS.8408-8409.The papers consist of:(i) 'Journal or Extracts of Letters', 24 February-28 July 1783 (folio 1);(ii) Copies of administrative correspondence, 31 January-9 July 1783 (folio 58);(iii) Copies of administrative correspondence, July-October 1783 (folio 92);(iv) Copies of administrative correspondence, July-September 1783 (folio 118);(v) Copies of...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Copies of correspondence between Lord Nelson and Sir John Acton, 1803-1804 (folio 1); (ii) Copies of letters of Hugh Elliot to Lord Nelson, 1803 (folio 15); (iii) Papers concerning John Badge, merchant in Naples, and John Park, master of the ‘Columba , arrested on a charge of barratry, 1803 (folio 91); (iv) Papers connected with the capture of the French privateer ‘Tigre’, 1803 (folio 129); (v) Papers relating to an alleged attack (in search of naval...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: 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...

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Includes correspondence and papers, 1810-1814, of and concerning Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Java.

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Includes correspondence and papers, 1810-1814, of and concerning Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Java.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) 'A short narrative of the occasion, rise, progress, & administration of the . . . Fund . . . for Relief of the Indigent Episcopal Clergy in Scotland and their Widows', with a copy of Bishop David Freebairn's commission to the collectors, dated 1739 (folio 1);(ii) List of the Episcopal clergy possessed of cures in Scotland at the Revolution (folio 7);(iii) Narratives of the Jacobite rising of 1745 (copies), preceded by...

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The narrative was apparently written shortly after Charles Edward's escape and reception in Paris. There is, in a modern hand, an abstract of the more important topics dealt with.

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The papers consist of:

(i) Fragment of an account of Kutch, made in this translated version circa 1804, but probably related to an earlier history in Persian; see MS.13930 (folio 1);

(ii) ’Narrative of transactions with the state of Cutch from 1802 to 1816’ compiled by Benjamin Jones in 1818 (folio 45).

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The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Journal, chiefly in James Stuart's hand, from 17 May-27 September 1782, relating events in a military expedition against the French and Hyder Ali (folio 1);(ii) 'Narrative' of events following the surrender of Bidanore, April 1783, and the imprisonment of British officers by Tippoo Sultan (folio 105);(iii) Draft by James Stuart of a memorandum, 1783, in reply to personal criticism in the minutes of the Committee of the...

Scope and Contents The journal is preceded by a 'narrative of some part of the management of the said works' from 15 May 1745, a few days before the works were bought by William Grant, until 2 April 1748; with weekly coal bills from 9 August 1745 to 2 April 1748. Weekly salt bills for the same period are not given (see folio 16).The journal from 2 April 1748 (folio 16 verso) contains, in its earlier stages, a considerable amount of technical matter relating to mining. On the financial side, the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The papers chiefly refer to James Stuart's stay in India as an officer (later Commander-in-Chief) of the forces of the East India Company based at Fort St George (Madras). The most detailed portions of the papers cover the year immediately prior to Stuart's dismissal from the Company's service in 1783. Stuart appears to have retained these papers as justification of his actions and as a defence against accusations of inefficiency. He made different sets of copies of much of his...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Typescript copies of letters, 1756-1759, of Lady Christian Graham with a few pieces of connecting narrative. Some of the material was used in ‘The beautiful Mrs. Graham’ (folio 1); (ii) Typescript copies of letters, 1843, of Charlotte Debnam to her husband, Major William Stewart of the Ardvorlich family (folio 47); (lii) Copies of correspondence, [circa 1774]-1840, of Lord Lynedoch (folio 91); (iv) Miscellaneous drafts for a study of Lord Lynedoch (folio...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: 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...