10 volumes of correspondence and 3 volumes of papers of Sylvester Douglas, Lord Glenbervie, as agent of his brother-in-law Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford.
Includes letters to North from Glenbervie about the death of North's brother George, 3rd Earl of Guilford, and about English and Indian politics. North writes to Glenbervie about his Ceylon administration and its improvements, including building, draining, mining, the creation of canals, the form...
By the Treaty of Paris (1815), the Ionian Islands became a protectorate of Great Britain, and in the same year North began discussions about a possible Ionian University with Ioannis Kapodistrias, the Greek diplomat and eventual first head of state of independent Greece. This part of the collecti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Passports of Frederick North and his sister Lady Charlotte Lindsay Printed addresses of Brigadier-General Sir John Oswald to the inhabitants of the Ionian Isles, and printed verses relating to him. Papers in Turkish or Arabic An agreement between William Matthews and Frederick North relating to a...
Letters from Dr Francis C Belfour, concerning his lectures in Classics, his intention to teach a course in Geography, and his journey to the Middle East in 1826 in order to learn Turkish and Arabic
Venetian painter Natale Schiavoni reports to North about a young Greek studying with him. North’s accounts and correspondence with the Venetian bankers Fratelli Schieling. Natale Schiavoni Fratelli Schieling (37 letters from them with some replies) Ernst Heinrich Schimmelman. Letters to him as r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin