Reports.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents containing presentations of facts or the record of some proceeding, investigation, or event.
Found in 928 Collections and/or Records:
Journals of the 2nd Earl of Minto chiefly political in content and including detailed reporting of discussions in Cabinet on foreign and home affairs., 1848-1852.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11995-11998
Scope and Contents
The journals are of interest for the study of the Russell administration. MS.11995 records the 2nd Earl of Minto's disagreement with the rest of the Cabinet over the question of Sicily, on which he threatened to resign. All the volumes display generally the 2nd Earl's very strong pro-Italian sentiments and hostility to Austria.
Dates:
1848-1852.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Journals of the 2nd Earl and Countess of Minto, and their children.
Leaflets and reports collected by Ian Rankin as research for his novel ‘Let It Bleed’; with a synopses of the novel, and correspondence concerning cover proofs., 1995-1997.
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Identifier: MS.50363
Dates:
1995-1997.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Ian Rankin archive.
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Papers relating to the professional activities of Ian Rankin.
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Papers relating to the literary and other creative works of Ian Rankin.
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Manuscripts, typescripts, working papers, and published extracts of the novels of Ian Rankin.
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Manuscripts, typescripts, and working papers of the novels of Ian Rankin.
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Typescripts and working papers of the police procedural novels of Ian Rankin.
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Typescripts and working papers of the Rebus novels by Ian Rankin.
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Typescripts of 'Let It Bleed' by Ian Rankin; with related working papers and promotional materials.
Lecture notes and phrenological reports of George Combe., [1811]-1823.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7451-7452
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
MSS.7443-7445 are written in German, having been delivered on George Combe's tour in Germany in 1842.
The phrenological reports (MSS.7452-7455) comprise the phrenological measurements of many persons, both well-known and obscure, with reports and descriptions of their mental capabilities and weaknesses.
The papers of Cecilia Combe contain a selection of literary efforts, diaries of tours, and the usual memoranda and inventories kept by nineteenth-century housewives.
Dates:
[1811]-1823.
Legal documents concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk, and the Stuarts of Torrance., 1664-1829.
File
Identifier: MS.5327
Scope and Contents
The legal documents comprise the following:
(i) Condescendences, 1766-1822 (number 1);
(ii) Submissions, 1703-1812 (number 7);
(iii) Summonses, 1654-1818 (number 12);
(iv) Executions, 1664-1804 (number 23);
(v) Protests, 1724-1779 (number 43);
(vi) Suspensions, 1672-1772 (number 82);
(vii) Declarations, 1674-1824 (number 97);
(viii) Instructions, 1672-1822 (number 113);
(ix) Intimations, 1793-1820 (number 132);
(x) Minutes, 1676-1825 (number 139);
(xi) Instruments, 1678-1680 (number...
Dates:
1664-1829.
Legal, family and miscellaneous papers of the 7th Marquess of Tweeddale., 1777-1806, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14527
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1787-1802, including accounts, of the trustees of the 6th Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 1);(ii) Family papers, being copies of the marriage contract, 1785, between the 7th Marquess and Marchioness of Tweeddale; a printed ‘Information', 1788, for Frances, daughter of Major William and Lady Catherine Hay, against Robert Hay of Drumelzier; and an inventory, 1789, of the jewels belonging to Frances, Marchioness of Tweeddale (folio...
Dates:
1777-1806, undated.
Letter and memoranda book of Samuel Ashburner, civil engineer consisting chiefly of reports on proposed railways in Maine and Massachusetts., 1847-1852, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.20370
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the letters concern family and personal affairs, but there is much talk of their business interests whether in trading across the Atlantic and in India, or in the Gardiner paper mills on the Kennebec River.
Dates:
1847-1852, undated.
Letter-book 3 of the Home Mission Secretary of the United Presbyterian Church, with some other letters and documents concerning home and foreign missions., 1854-1872.
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Identifier: MS.7736
Scope and Contents
The letter-book is for the year 1867.The other letters and documents are as follows:(i) a list, 1854-1870, of the members of the Foreign Mission Committee (Folios 78);
(ii) a list, 1870, of subscribers to the ‘Missionary Record’, and letters, 1870-1872, concerning alterations thereto (folio 87);
(iii) a copy, undated, of a letter, 1869, to the Duke of Argyll (folio 204);
(iv) the Home Mission Report for 1867 (the beginning is lost) (folio 269).Another copy...
Dates:
1854-1872.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
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Foreign mission records of the United Free Church of Scotland, incorporating records of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland.
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Foreign mission records of the United Presbyterian Church (after 1900, the United Free Church of Scotland).
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Letter-books concerning foreign missions of the United Presbyterian Church.
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Letter-books of the Home Mission Secretary and of the clerks in the Foreign Mission Office of the United Presbyterian Church.
Letters and 'miscellaneous documents' of Hugh Pattison Macmillan, chiefly concerning the National Library of Scotland., 1922-1936.
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Identifier: MS.25270
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Letters, 1924-1935, concerned with the purchase of Mary, Queen of Scots, manuscripts (1924), and with the business of the National Library Board of Trustees (folio 1);
(ii-xi) 'Miscellaneous documents', 1922-1936, as follows.
(ii) Copy of a letter, 1922, of Sir Frederick Kenyon, British Museum, to Dr W K Dickson on a Treasury grant to the Advocates' Library (folio 68);
(iii) Correspondence with Sir John Lamb and Lord Novar (Secretary for Scotland) on the...
Dates:
1922-1936.
Letters and papers chiefly relating to the Herring Fisheries in Scotland, and to police and prisons in Scotland., 1779-1848, undated.
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Identifier: MS.354A
Scope and Contents
(i) Letters and papers (manuscript and printed) relating chiefly to the Herring Fisheries in Scotland, 1791-1796, 1801-1812, 1847, undated. The subjects include considerations on the best mode of encouraging the White Herring Fishing, 1791; British Society for Fisheries and the road from Dingwall to Ullapool, 1792; memorial of the Adventurers in the British White Herring Fisheries, 1794; reports, etc., of the Highland Society of Scotland on the proposed British White Fishery Bill [?1801];...
Dates:
1779-1848, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount.
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Letters and papers relating chiefly to the Herring Fisheries in Scotland, and to police and prisons in Scotland, with a few maps and plans of prisons.
Letters and papers concerning Scottish affairs., 1810-1830.
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Identifier: MS.13
Scope and Contents
The contents include:Letters, etc., 1813, on the proposed Bill for the Better Preservation of Game in Scotland; Lettters, etc., 1815, on the Bill for Trial by Jury in Civil Causes; Report, 1819, by the Barons of the Exchequer of Scotland to the parliamentary commissioners appointed to inquire into the Courts of Justice in Scotland;Memorial, 1826, of the Judges of the Supreme Consistorial Court of Scotland to the Treasury regarding their...
Dates:
1810-1830.
Letters and papers concerning the reduction of the Danish islands and Cayenne, accounts of naval actions against the French, decisions of the prize-courts, and other papers, from the time when Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane was Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands., 1805-1808.
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Identifier: MS.2314
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1805-1808.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands.
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Letters and papers concerning the reduction of the Danish islands and Cayenne, accounts of naval actions against the French, decisions of the prize-courts, and other papers, from the time when Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane was Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands.
Letters and papers concerning the reduction of the Danish islands and Cayenne, accounts of naval actions against the French, decisions of the prize-courts, and other papers, from the time when Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane was Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands., 1809.
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Identifier: MS.2315
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1809.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands.
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Letters and papers concerning the reduction of the Danish islands and Cayenne, accounts of naval actions against the French, decisions of the prize-courts, and other papers, from the time when Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane was Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands.
Letters and papers of and concerning James Douglas, Earl of Angus., 1683-1698
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Identifier: MS.974
Scope and Contents
The papers consist chiefly of accounts of the Earl of Angus' expenditure while in Holland, kept by his ‘governour’, Captain James Cranstoun of the Glen, 1683-1692 (folio 1), including vouchers for payments by Cranstoun and by William Lawrie, Tutor of Blackwood, the Marquess of Douglas's factor, reports on the accounts by Sir Francis Scott of Thirlestane and Sir Patrick Murray of Saltcoats, 1693 (folios 35 verso, 41), and the Marquess's discharges, with his remarks, 1693 (folios 36, 110)....
Dates:
1683-1698
Letters and papers of Major Alexander Gilbert Barry to the 1st Earl of Minto, written from Réunion and Mauritius., 1810-1812.
File
Identifier: MS.11134
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
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Family and general correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto.
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Letters and papers of and concerning the illegitimate children of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly Major Alexander Gilbert Barry.
Letters and papers of the 2nd Earl of Albemarle., 1742, 1746-1748, undated.
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Identifier: MS.3730
Scope and Contents
The papers include reports on suspected persons and prisoners, chiefly in Brechin and its neighbourhood; undertakings of released prisoners to assist the Government in the search for arms; complaints of the town of Kelso against the conduct of the officer commanding the troops there (folio 44); a memorial on the sufferings of the Duke of Montrose's tenants in 1746 (folio 91); and lists of arms, quarters, sick, courts martial, etc.
Dates:
1742, 1746-1748, undated.
Letters and papers relating chiefly to the City of Edinburgh., 1773, 1790-1837, 1849.
File
Identifier: MS.351
Scope and Contents
The correspondents and subjects dealt with include: Contract of Professor William Cullen, 1773;
Professor John Playfair, 1790;
Sir William Forbes and the proposed regulations regarding Bills of Exchange and Notes, 1790;
Sir John Sinclair and Scottish wool, 1791;
Mutiny of Highland troops at Linlithgow, 1794;
Report on the Friends of the People and on J Gerrald, 1794;
Printed circular letter to the Faculty of Advocates regarding the Deanship and Henry Erskine, with...
Dates:
1773, 1790-1837, 1849.
Letters and papers relating to taxation, salt-duty and fisheries., 1785-1820, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.640
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters and papers relating chiefly to taxation 1786-1820. The correspondents and subjects dealt with include duties on soap and candles, 1786-1787; surveyors of windows, etc., in North Britain, 1787; malt-tax in Scotland, 1788; Inspector General for Stamps for Scotland, 1790; accounts of the Receiver General for Scotland in respect of the land-tax, 1788-90; window, house, etc., taxes, 1878-1879; petition of the glasswork companies at Leith,...
Dates:
1785-1820, undated.
Letters and reports of the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government concerning preparations for the expedition against Mauritius and Bourbon (Réunion)., 1810.
File
Identifier: MS.11677
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.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape.
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Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto with various Governors and others.
Letters and telegrams of condolence to the Countess of Minto on the 4th Earl of Minto's death, with copies of Indian newspaper reports., 1914.
File
Identifier: MS.12791
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates:
1914.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to India.
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Miscellaneous papers of the 4th Earl of Minto relating to his time in India.
Letters of Lord Cornwallis to Henry Dundas; with an appendix containing attachments thereto., 1786-1793.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3385-3386
Dates:
1786-1793.
Letters of Sir Walter Scott, and anecdotes about Scott followed by letters and press cuttings concerning them., 1792-1831.
File
Identifier: MS.8993
Scope and Contents
The letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1792-1831, are to various members of the Shortreed family, and concern Scott's business and social connections with the family. There is also a report (folio 94) of a conversation between Robert and John Shortreed about tours with Scott in Liddesdale, 1824. This is apparently the original report, of which MS.921, folio 78 is a copy. The report is printed in ‘Cornhill Magazine’ (1932).
Dates:
1792-1831.
Letters of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, chiefly rough drafts, and nearly all in his own hand., 1682-1689.
File
Identifier: MS.7026
Scope and Contents
Most of the letters in MS.7026 are to Lord Yester, those of 1685-1686 being mainly concerned with legal and estate affairs, while those of 1688-1689 discuss public affairs and enclose reports of the Scottish Parliament of 1689.
Dates:
1682-1689.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale.
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Letters and papers concerning the 1st Earl of Tweeddale; and correspondence and papers of and concerning the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Tweeddale.
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Letters and letter-books of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale.
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Letters of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, chiefly rough drafts, and nearly all in his own hand.
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Letters of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, chiefly rough drafts, and nearly all in his own hand.
Letters of various individuals to John Kirk and Helen Kirk, 1865-1872, and to John William Carnegie Kirk, 1925; several professional reports of John Kirk, 1870-1872; and two printed documents in Arabic, undated., 1865-1872, 1925, undated.
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Identifier: Acc.9942/6
Scope and Contents
2 letters from George Percy Badger to Kirk, 8 October 1872 and undated.3 letters from H.W. Bates to Kirk, 7 September 1872, 8 November 1872 and 20 November 1872.Fragment of a letter from Archibald Churchill, British Residency at Zanzibar [circa 1865].3 letters from L.S. Dawson to Kirk, 10 September 1872, 20 September 1872, and 6 November 1872.Fragment of a letter from Baron von der Decken, mid-1865.Letter from H.A. Fraser to Kirk,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1865-1872, 1925, undated.
Letters, reports, and other papers on the expedition to Guadeloupe (of which Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane was Governor, 1810-1824)., 1809-1811.
File
Identifier: MS.2318
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1809-1811.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands.