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Dispatches.

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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 317 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto chiefly as President of the Board of Control., 1806-1807.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11272-11282
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...
Dates: 1806-1807.

Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East., 1793-1815, undated.

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Identifier: MSS.11272-11739
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...
Dates: 1793-1815, undated.

Correspondence and papers of William Elliot of Wells as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1806-1807., 1806-1807.

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Identifier: MSS.12908-12927
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Nassau Elliot of Wells was Commissary and Commissary-General to the allied army in Germany, 1761-173, and his son, William Elliot of Wells was Member of Parliament for Portarlington, 1801-1802, and for Peterborough, 1802-1818, and Chief Secretary for Ireland in the ‘Talents' Ministry, 1806-1807. The Elliots of Wells were only very distantly related to the Elliots of Minto, the common ancestor being Robin Elliot of Redheugh (florished 1582). However, William Elliot of Wells was a...
Dates: 1806-1807.

Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government with and concerning the Madras Government and Army., 1804-1814.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11644-11672
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...
Dates: 1804-1814.

Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto, being chiefly letters, dispatches and enclosures from Francis Drake, Envoy at Munich, concerning the affairs of Bavaria and Württemburg, with copies of Drake's dispatches to the Foreign Secretary., 1800-1801.

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Identifier: MS.11247
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...
Dates: 1800-1801.

Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto, being chiefly letters, dispatches and enclosures from William Wickham, Minister at Munich, on a special mission of observation on the frontiers of Switzerland, with copies of Wickham's dispatches to the Foreign Secretary., 1799-1801.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11245-11246
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...
Dates: 1799-1801.

Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto, being chiefly letters, dispatches and enclosures from William Wickham, Minister at Munich, on a special mission of observation on the frontiers of Switzerland, with copies of Wickham's dispatches to the Foreign Secretary., 1799-1800.

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Identifier: MS.11245
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...
Dates: 1799-1800.

Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto, being chiefly letters, dispatches and enclosures from William Wickham, Minister at Munich, on a special mission of observation on the frontiers of Switzerland, with copies of Wickham's dispatches to the Foreign Secretary., 1800-1801.

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Identifier: MS.11246(i)-(ii)
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...
Dates: 1800-1801.

Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto, being chiefly letters, dispatches and enclosures from William Wickham, Minister at Munich, on a special mission of observation on the frontiers of Switzerland, with copies of Wickham's dispatches to the Foreign Secretary., 1800.

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Identifier: MS.11246(i)

Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto, being chiefly letters, dispatches and enclosures from William Wickham, Minister at Munich, on a special mission of observation on the frontiers of Switzerland, with copies of Wickham's dispatches to the Foreign Secretary., 1800-1801.

 File
Identifier: MS.11246(ii)

Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto, being chiefly letters of Sir Charles Whitworth, Envoy at St Petersburg, with copies of Whitworth's dispatches to the Foreign Secretary., 1799-1800.

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Identifier: MS.11250
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...
Dates: 1799-1800.

Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly military., 1799-1801.

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Identifier: MS.11259
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters, copies of letters and dispatches of Lord Mulgrave, on a special mission to the Austrian military command, mostly to the 1st Earl of Minto, September- November 1799 (folio l); (ii) Copies of dispatches of Lieutenant-Colonel John Ramsay, British Commissary with the Austrian Army, to the 1st Earl and the Foreign Secretary, September-October 1799 (folio 69); (iii) Letters of Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, attached to the Austrian military headquarters,...
Dates: 1799-1801.

Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto with Major-General John Abercromby, including material relating to the Java expedition, and dispatches and enclosures of Major-General Henry Warde., 1810-1811.

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Identifier: MS.11684
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...
Dates: 1810-1811.

Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto with the Chairman and Directors of the East India Company., 1807-1813.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11337-11340
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...
Dates: 1807-1813.

Dispatch of Charles Cornwallis to Henry Dundas on the best mode of remodelling the Army in India., 1794.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1061
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Volumes entitled 'Individuals' contain correspondence regarding patronage and other matters of personal interest (requests for employment, promotion, and pensions, complaints of unjust treatment, etc.). These papers frequently give information of a more general kind.

Dates: 1794.

Dispatches and enclosures received by the 2nd Earl of Minto from Lord Palmerston and the Foreign Office., 1847-1848.

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Identifier: MSS.12092-12101
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: 1847-1848.

Dispatches and enclosures received by the 2nd Earl of Minto from Lord Palmerston and the Foreign Office., September-October 1847.

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Identifier: MS.12089
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: September-October 1847.

Dispatches and enclosures received by the 2nd Earl of Minto from Lord Palmerston and the Foreign Office., October-November 1847.

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Identifier: MS.12093
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: October-November 1847.

Dispatches and enclosures received by the 2nd Earl of Minto from Lord Palmerston and the Foreign Office., November-December 1847.

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Identifier: MS.12094
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: November-December 1847.

Dispatches and enclosures received by the 2nd Earl of Minto from Lord Palmerston and the Foreign Office., December 1847.

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Identifier: MS.12095
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: December 1847.