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Copies of letters of Sir Henry Elliot chiefly to the Foreign Secretary, Austrian ministers, British diplomatists and others., 1878-1883.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13081-13082
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, 1878, with William James Stillman, correspondent of 'The Times' in Herzegovina.

Dates: 1878-1883.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers, chiefly diplomatic, of the Honourable Sir Henry George Elliot (1817-1907), 2nd son of the 2nd Earl of Minto. / Correspondence of Hugh Elliot concerning the British Embassy at Vienna.

Copies of letters of Sir Henry Elliot chiefly to the Foreign Secretary, Austrian ministers, British diplomatists and others., 1878-1879.

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Identifier: MS.13081
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes correspondence, 1878, with William James Stillman, correspondent of 'The Times' in Herzegovina.

Dates: 1878-1879.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers, chiefly diplomatic, of the Honourable Sir Henry George Elliot (1817-1907), 2nd son of the 2nd Earl of Minto. / Correspondence of Hugh Elliot concerning the British Embassy at Vienna. / Copies of letters of Sir Henry Elliot chiefly to the Foreign Secretary, Austrian ministers, British diplomatists and others.

Copies of letters of Sir Henry Elliot chiefly to the Foreign Secretary, Austrian ministers, British diplomatists and others., 1880-1883.

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Identifier: MS.13082
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes correspondence, 1878, with William James Stillman, correspondent of 'The Times' in Herzegovina.

Dates: 1880-1883.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers, chiefly diplomatic, of the Honourable Sir Henry George Elliot (1817-1907), 2nd son of the 2nd Earl of Minto. / Correspondence of Hugh Elliot concerning the British Embassy at Vienna. / Copies of letters of Sir Henry Elliot chiefly to the Foreign Secretary, Austrian ministers, British diplomatists and others.

Copies of letters of Sir Henry Elliot to the Foreign Secretary, the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, Foreign Office officials, diplomatists and others., 1870-1875.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13069-13071
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers chiefly concern Sir Henry George Elliot’s career as ambassador at Constantinople and Vienna in the years 1867-1884.

Dates: 1870-1875.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers, chiefly diplomatic, of the Honourable Sir Henry George Elliot (1817-1907), 2nd son of the 2nd Earl of Minto. / Correspondence of Sir Henry Elliot concerning the British Embassy at Constantinople.

Copies of letters of Sir Henry Elliot to the Foreign Secretary, the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, Foreign Office officials, diplomatists and others., 1870-1871.

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Identifier: MS.13069
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers chiefly concern Sir Henry George Elliot’s career as ambassador at Constantinople and Vienna in the years 1867-1884.

Dates: 1870-1871.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers, chiefly diplomatic, of the Honourable Sir Henry George Elliot (1817-1907), 2nd son of the 2nd Earl of Minto. / Correspondence of Sir Henry Elliot concerning the British Embassy at Constantinople. / Copies of letters of Sir Henry Elliot to the Foreign Secretary, the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, Foreign Office officials, diplomatists and others.

Copies of letters of Sir Henry Elliot to the Foreign Secretary, the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, Foreign Office officials, diplomatists and others., 1872-1874.

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Identifier: MS.13070
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers chiefly concern Sir Henry George Elliot’s career as ambassador at Constantinople and Vienna in the years 1867-1884.

Dates: 1872-1874.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers, chiefly diplomatic, of the Honourable Sir Henry George Elliot (1817-1907), 2nd son of the 2nd Earl of Minto. / Correspondence of Sir Henry Elliot concerning the British Embassy at Constantinople. / Copies of letters of Sir Henry Elliot to the Foreign Secretary, the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, Foreign Office officials, diplomatists and others.

Copies of letters of Sir Henry Elliot to the Foreign Secretary, the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, Foreign Office officials, diplomatists and others., 1875.

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Identifier: MS.13071
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers chiefly concern Sir Henry George Elliot’s career as ambassador at Constantinople and Vienna in the years 1867-1884.

Dates: 1875.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers, chiefly diplomatic, of the Honourable Sir Henry George Elliot (1817-1907), 2nd son of the 2nd Earl of Minto. / Correspondence of Sir Henry Elliot concerning the British Embassy at Constantinople. / Copies of letters of Sir Henry Elliot to the Foreign Secretary, the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, Foreign Office officials, diplomatists and others.

Copies of letters of Sir Robert Liston, as British Representative at Constantinople, to Lord Grenville, and some of Grenville's dispatches., 1794-1795.

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Identifier: MS.5572
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Robert Liston's earliest dispatches report the outbreak of trouble between the Jews and the British members of the East India Company's factory at Bassera; but his main preoccupation was the predominance of French influence at the Turkish court. A series of letters discusses the question of tariffs paid by Russian merchants in Turkey, which Liston persuaded the Turks not to raise.

Dates: 1794-1795.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Sir Robert Liston, diplomatist. / Papers of Sir Robert Liston while British Representative at Constantinople.

Copies of letters of Sir Robert Liston from the period when he was British Representative at Stockholm., 1789-1792.

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Identifier: MS.5566
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) An incomplete series of copies of official letters, 1789-1792, of Robert Liston (folio 1);

(ii) Copies of letters, 1789-1792, of Robert Liston to his mother and personal friends (folio 58).

Dates: 1789-1792.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Sir Robert Liston, diplomatist. / Papers of Sir Robert Liston while British Representative at Stockholm.

Copies of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson when he was preparing the centenary edition of Scott’s letters but rejected from printing., 1800-1823.

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Identifier: MS.1750
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The copies of those letters in the National Library which are to be found in MS.863 have not been preserved. A list of the numbers of the letters in MS.863 is bound in at the beginning of MS.1750.

Dates: 1800-1823.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Copies, chiefly typewritten, of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson when he was preparing the centenary edition of Scott’s letters but rejected from printing.

Copies of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson when he was preparing the centenary edition of Scott’s letters but rejected from printing., 1824-1828.

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Identifier: MS.1751
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The copies of those letters in the National Library which are to be found in MS.863 have not been preserved. A list of the numbers of the letters in MS.863 is bound in at the beginning of MS.1750.

Dates: 1824-1828.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Copies, chiefly typewritten, of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson when he was preparing the centenary edition of Scott’s letters but rejected from printing.

Copies of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson when he was preparing the centenary edition of Scott’s letters but rejected from printing., 1829-1832.

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Identifier: MS.1752
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The copies of those letters in the National Library which are to be found in MS.863 have not been preserved. A list of the numbers of the letters in MS.863 is bound in at the beginning of MS.1750.

Dates: 1829-1832.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Copies, chiefly typewritten, of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson when he was preparing the centenary edition of Scott’s letters but rejected from printing.

Copies of letters of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1810-1812.

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Identifier: MS.11287
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: 1810-1812.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India. / General correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto containing material relating to all aspects of his Indian career. / Copies of the 1st Earl of Minto's letters and papers.

Copies of letters of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1806-1813.

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Identifier: MS.11288
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: 1806-1813.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India. / General correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto containing material relating to all aspects of his Indian career. / Copies of the 1st Earl of Minto's letters and papers.

Copies of letters of the 1st Earl of Minto to Lieutenant-General Sir George Hewett, Commander-in-Chief in India., 1808-1811.

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Identifier: MS.11291
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: 1808-1811.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India. / General correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto containing material relating to all aspects of his Indian career. / Copies of the 1st Earl of Minto's letters and papers.

Copies of letters of the 1st Earl of Minto to Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty., 1810-1813.

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Identifier: MS.11693
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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

Dates: 1810-1813.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India. / Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government concerning the British invasion and occupation of Java and other Dutch possessions in the East Indies. / Correspondence and copies of letters of the 1st Earl of Minto with Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty, Commander-in-Chief of the Java expedition.

Copies of letters of the 1st Earl of Minto to Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, and the Earl of Buckinghamshire, successively Presidents of the Board of Control., 1810-1812.

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Identifier: MS.11289
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: 1810-1812.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India. / General correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto containing material relating to all aspects of his Indian career. / Copies of the 1st Earl of Minto's letters and papers.

Copies of letters of the 1st Earl of Minto to the 2nd Viscount Melville., 1807-1813.

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Identifier: MS.11290
Scope and Contents

With one letter of the 1st Earl of Minto to the Earl of Buckinghamshire, 1813.

Dates: 1807-1813.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India. / General correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto containing material relating to all aspects of his Indian career. / Copies of the 1st Earl of Minto's letters and papers.

Copies of letters of Wellington to General Sir George Murray and his family., 1832-1847.

 File
Identifier: MS.3836, folios 102-108
Dates: 1832-1847.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Miscellaneous letters and papers.

Copies of letters of William Davidson to his grandson, William, volume I., 1861, 1864, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.10498
Scope and Contents

A photograph of William Davidson, dated 1864, is pasted in at the beginning of the volume with an inscription by him.

Dates: 1861, 1864, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Copies of letters of William Davidson, the phrenologist and father of Thomas (1817-1885), the palaeontologist, to his grandson, William, 'Written at Heidelberg, and other places on the Rhine'.

Copies of letters of William Davidson to his grandson, William, volume II., 1861, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.10499
Scope and Contents From the Series:

In the first volume the letters discuss mainly religious and philosophical topics while the second volume is more autobiographical.

Dates: 1861, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Copies of letters of William Davidson, the phrenologist and father of Thomas (1817-1885), the palaeontologist, to his grandson, William, 'Written at Heidelberg, and other places on the Rhine'.

Copies of letters, on paper watermarked 1840, of William Carstares to the Earl of Melville, written partly in cipher, dated from London and from various places on the Continent whither Carstares accompanied King William III., 1694-1700.

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Identifier: MS.3471
Scope and Contents

The letters give political and military news, and refer to some scheme for the Earl of Melville's advancement. At the beginning of the volume is a synopsis of the contents of the letters, and on folio ii is a receipt signed by George Hill.

Dates: 1694-1700.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Very Reverend John Lee, Principal of Edinburgh University, with the material collected by him.

Copies of letters to Cardinal Giovanni Morone; ‘Una Ghirlanda Fiorentina, 1938’; copies of poems; and notes on Shelley in Italy by John Purves., 16th century, [?1920-?1940.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.15707
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The notes dated from the appointment of John Purves as lecturer in Italian at Edinburgh University in 1920.

Dates: 16th century, [?1920-?1940.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947. / Notebooks chiefly of John Purves. / Notebooks of John Purves concerning Italian literature. / Notebooks, undated, of John Purves, probably belonging to the period 1920-1940.

Copies of letters to Hugh Elliot from General Maurice Lacy and Sir James Henry Craig., 1805-1806.

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Identifier: MS.13041
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes material relating to the defence of Capri and Gaeta, and to the differences of opinion that arose concerning British withdrawal from the Italian mainland in 1806.

Dates: 1805-1806.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Family and general correspondence and the diplomatic papers of Hugh Elliot (1752-1830), younger brother of the 1st Earl of Minto. / Papers of Hugh Elliot relating to the Neapolitan Mission. / Correspondence of Hugh Elliot concerning all aspects of British military operations in Calabria and Sicily.

Copies of letters to John Burdon-Sanderson and of papers and speeches given by him to learned societies and on other occasions., [?1854-before 1906.]

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Identifier: MS.20032
Scope and Contents

The papers were apparently intended for use in ‘Sir John Burdon Sanderson a memoir’, which was begun by Lady Burdon-Sanderson after his death in 1905 and completed and edited after her death in 1909 by their niece and nephew Elizabeth S Haldane (in whose hand many of the copies are written, most of the rest being in typescript) and John S Haldane, in 1911.

Dates: [?1854-before 1906.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson. / Correspondence and papers of Sir John S Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet.

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