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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Physical or digital representations of a body of information designed with the capacity to communicate. In its broadest sense, ""documents"" include any item amenable to cataloging and indexing, that is, including nonprint media. For the activity of gathering and recording information, see ""documentation (function)""For specfic types of documents, see concepts under ""document genres."".

Found in 1533 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and papers relating to General Sir George Murray`s tenure of office of chief of staff of the allied armies of occupation in France following the Congress of Vienna., 1815-1818.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.6.7-46.8.5
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of letters, orders, reports, and maps relating to Murray’s military career, to his official and diplomatic duties and to his literary activities. It is arranged in nearly chronological order illustrating the various periods of his career.

Dates: 1815-1818.

Correspondence and papers relating to the 2nd Earl of Minto's period as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia at Berlin., 1832-1835.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12017-12047
Scope and Contents Lord Minto arrived in Berlin on 25 September 1832 and presented his credentials on the following day. Exclusive of periods of leave (July-August 1833 and June-July 1834), the 2nd Earl of Minto was resident in Prussia until presentation of his recall on 2 October 1834. In consultation with the Foreign Secretary, Lord Palmerston, he worked to counteract Austro-Russian influence at the Prussian Court. On the Belgian-Dutch question he urged Prussia to use her own influence on the Dutch king to...
Dates: 1832-1835.

Correspondence and political papers of and concerning Sir James Dalrymple., 1714-1748, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.25281
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence of and concerning Sir James Dalrymple, 1721-1748, undated, with two letters to Lady Christian Dalrymple, 1746, undated. Written from London and Hanover, they contain much of political interest. A letter from General James Sinclair describes the Battle of Dettingen in the War of the Austrian Succession, 1743. Also letters on plans for the Jacobite Rising of 1745, and tiends of Prestonkirk, East Lothian, 1729-1742 (folio 1); (ii) Political and...
Dates: 1714-1748, undated.

Correspondence, chiefly copies, of and concerning Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Bell, 1809, and letters and papers of, to and concerning Captain Thomas Sydenham, Resident at Hyderabad, and Lieutenant Colonel John Doveton, 1810., 1809-1810.

 File
Identifier: MS.11668
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: 1809-1810.

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.

Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto, being chiefly letters and enclosures from the Earl of Elgin, Ambassador at Constantinople, John Spencer Smith, Secretary of Embassy and Minister at Constantinople, and Peter Tooke, the East India Company's agent at Constantinople., 1799-1801.

 File
Identifier: MS.11249
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 and enclosures from Thomas Grenville, on an extraordinary mission to Berlin, Benjamin Garlike, Secretary of Legation and Chargé d'Affaires at Berlin, and the Earl of Carysfort, Envoy at Berlin., 1799-1801.

 File
Identifier: MS.11248
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 and enclosures of the Honourable William Frederick Wyndham, Envoy at Florence, and Thomas Penrose, Chargé d'Affaires at Florence during Wyndham's absences in 1800, and Thomas Jackson, Minister at Turin., 1799-1801.

 File
Identifier: MS.11251
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.