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Dispatches.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Messages, intended usually for special or expeditious transmittal or delivery, such as important official messages, or news items sent with promptness by correspondents to newspapers or news agencies.

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents

The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

Dates: 1548-1641.

Copies of dispatches and correspondence of Charles Pasley.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6538
Scope and Contents

Concerning his part in Sir John Malcolm`s mission to Persia.

Dates: 1808.

Copies of two offical dispatches of Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Graham, later Baron Lynedoch.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10897
Scope and Contents

Concern the siege of Bergen-op-Zoom.

Dates: 1814.

Copy of Field Order issued by Major General Sir William Grant-Keir on the capture of Ravee in the Third Anglo-Maratha War.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10770
Scope and Contents

Grant Keir congratulates the troops and supporting naval units under his command.

Dates: 1819.

Correspondence and papers of Charles Stuart, then a member of the Bengal Council, and later a professor of Oriental Languages at the East India College, Haileybury.

 File
Identifier: MS.9368
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of private letters from Charles Stuart to Henry Dundas, lst Viscount Melville, and to his friend William Dundas, the latter's nephew, with extensive enclosures, largely minutes and reports by Stuart, and copies of official correspondence and dispatches. The private correspondence contains particular detail on fiscal policies and the internal politics of the Bengal administration.

Dates: 1784-1792.

Microfilm of dispatches, memoranda and enclosures of or to the 1st Earl of Minto.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1444
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Various dispatches and memoranda, August 1809, sent by John Malcolm to the 1st Earl of Minto concerning the army mutiny at Masulipatam (MS.11657);

Copies of dispatches and enclosures, 12 October-27 December 1809, of the 1st Earl to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors (MS.11662);

Copies of enclosures, 15 April 1810, in dispatch of the 1st Earl of Minto to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors (MS.11663).

Dates: 1809-1810.

Official papers of Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, during his embassy to Paris, 1815-1830.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.6160-6246
Scope and Contents A series of volumes containing copies of dispatches, both outgoing and incoming, for each year of Charles Stuart's embassy, with a gap of four years, from 1824-1828, when he was recalled to England. The volumes were paginated, which makes it apparent that in many there are items missing; a list of missing pages has been placed at the beginning of each volume.The main topics of the reports concern the principal political events of the day: in addition to details of internal French...
Dates: 1814-1831.

Peninsular War papers of General Sir Hew Whiteford Dalrymple.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9716
Scope and Contents

Includes letters Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, dispatches, letter books and drafts of his writings.

Dates: 1807-1809.