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Henry Dundas papers

Description

The collection contains letters, manuscripts and documents sent mostly to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (Home Secretary, Secretary of State for War, First Lord of the Admiralty) and some to his son Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (President of the Board of Control for India, First Lord of the Admiralty). The collection principally focuses on British possessions in India, the East Indies and the West Indies; relations with the United States; and hostilities, negotiations, and political maneuvers with other European powers, especially with France and Russia. The material also deals with the British navy admiralty, maritime history, East India Company, Atlantic World, slavery, and early North America. A significant amount of material deals with the War of 1812, Tipu Sultan, Fath 'Ali, Nawab of Mysore and the 3rd and 4th Mysore Wars. Additional significant correspondents include, among others, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquis Cornwallis; Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany; Andrew James Cochrane Johnstone; Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley; and Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. The box of Ephemera contains tape, ribbons and string removed from the material, autograph and printed notes about various items in the collection and Maggs' brown paper wrappers.

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date
1772-1814
Call number
mssDUN 1-104
Creator
Dundas, Henry (1742-1811)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased by the Library Collectors' Council from Maggs Bros. Ltd, London, January 2018.
Associated people
Baird, David, (1757-1829.)
Baldwin, George, (1743?-1826.)
Beatson, Alexander, (1759-1833.)
Braithewaite, John, (1739-1803.)
Chetwynd, Richard Chetwynd, (1757-1821.)
Close, Barry, (1756-1813.)
Cochrane, Alexander Forrester Inglis, (1758-1832.)
Colpoys, John, (1742?-1821.)
Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, (1738-1805.)
Cuyler, Cornelius, (1740-1819.)
Dalrymple, Alexander, (1737-1808.)
Dundas, Henry, (1742-1811.)
Elphinstone, George Keith, (1746-1823.)
Frederick Augustus, (1763-1827.)
Harris, George Harris, (1746-1829.)
Hartley, James, (1745-1799.)
Hobart, Robert, (1760-1816.)
Johnstone, Andrew James Cochrane, (1767-)
Kirkpatrick, James Achilles, (1764-1805.)
Mackenzie, Colin, (1753?-1821.)
Maitland, Thomas, (1759?-1824.)
Malcolm, John, (1769-1833.)
Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, (1771-1851.)
Minto, Gilbert Elliot, (1751-1814.)
Oswald, Richard, (1705-1784.)
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, (1738-1809.)
Prinsep, John, (1746-1830.)
Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, (1753-1799.)
Wellesley, Richard Wellesley, (1760-1842.)
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, (1769-1852.)
Woodford, Ralph James.
Associated organizations
East India Company.
Great Britain.
Great Britain.
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