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6651. Mss Eur F88/450

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88/450
Title:
Notes of Mountstuart Elphinstone on matters relating to India
Scope & Content:
Includes correspondence with Sir Thomas Edward Colebrooke and Charles Grant, Baron Glenelg; notes and press cuttings about the education and employment of Indians; a printed copy of 'A letter from Sir Edward Ryan and Mr Charles Hay Cameron to the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1850-1854
Extent:
1 portfolio 180 folios

6652. Mss Eur F88/451

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88/451
Title:
Notes of Mountstuart Elphinstone on Assyria, Nineveh and Africa, with newspaper cuttings, etc.
Scope & Content:
Includes notes on Assyria and the neighbouring countries, with the recent discoveries at Nineveh, begun July 1851; notes from Colonel Rawlinson's paper in Volume 12 of the RAS [Royal Asiatic Society]; and notes on Africa, with references to books on Barbary and the Desert in 1850-1851
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1850-1859
Extent:
1 portfolio 209 folios

6653. Mss Eur F88/452

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88/452
Title:
Notes of Mountstuart Elphinstone on different subjects
Scope & Content:
Includes newspaper cuttings on the Russian Army and the Income Tax; an extract of a letter from General Thomas Munro, 18 June 1818, and a copy letter dated 12 July [no year given]; notes and abstracts on various books and publications, including Ginsei on architecture and Marsh's Michaeli; notes ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1850-1859
Extent:
1 portfolio 203 folios

6654. Mss Eur F88/453

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88/453
Title:
Notes by Mountstuart Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Contains notes bearing on various subjects such as the judicial system, revenue, colonisation and the general condition of people and draft notes to questions - papers required by Mountstuart Elphinstone for the examination before the House of Lords in 1831
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1827-1831
Extent:
1 file 240 folios

6655. Mss Eur F88/454

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88/454
Title:
Papers of Mountstuart Elphinstone regarding the Deccan and its administration
Scope & Content:
With list of contents. Comprises: 1) a copy of William Chaplin’s report on the revenue, criminal and civil justice of the Poona, Ahmednagar, Darwar [Dharwar] and Candeish [Khandesh] Collectorates for Fuslee 1229, Nov 1821; 2) the secrets in the Political Department by William Chaplin; 3) notes re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1820-1824
Extent:
2 boxes (including one volume) 582 folios

6656. Mss Eur F88/455

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88/455
Title:
Notes by Mountstuart Elphinstone on Typography
Scope & Content:
Includes notes on typography of the Iliad and Mr Steele's notes on Sicily. Also includes a map of The Troas from Rhoeteium and Alexandria to the summits of Mount Ida, drawn by Bhavoo Narronjee, native draughtsman (folio 33)
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1800s]
Extent:
1 file 33 folios

6657. Mss Eur F88/456

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88/456
Title:
Papers and letters of Mountstuart Elphinstone regarding the lands of Biggar Mill
Scope & Content:
Includes letters from John Miller, William Johnstone, George Turnbull, Patrick Cockburn, Sir Charles Adam, etc. Contains one large, folded folio (folio 51)
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1830-1839
Extent:
1 file 58 folios

6658. Mss Eur F88/457

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88/457
Title:
Papers and letters of Mountstuart Elphinstone regarding the Commission for Enquiring into Religious Instructions in Scotland
Scope & Content:
Includes letters from Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto, Dr Thomas Chalmers, Robert Bell, Thomas Henry Lister, etc., and also papers relating to the Commission for Enquiring into Religious Instruction in Scotland, e.g. a copy of the Printed Memoranda for the use of the Commissio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1835-1836
Extent:
1 file 197 folios

6659. Mss Eur F88/458

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88/458
Title:
Papers of Mountstuart Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Comprises a bundle of Club papers (letters, tickets, lists of members and Mountstuart Elphinstone's appointment papers to the various clubs' council committees) and a Latin poem on Earl Grey. Also contains a List of Papers in Drawers 1-5
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1831-1843
Extent:
1 file 124 folios

6660. Mss Eur F88/459

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88/459
Title:
Accounts and Bills of Mountstuart Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
For the period February 1858 to November 1859. Contain several small items
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1857-1859
Extent:
1 file 297 folios