Correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone for 1830
Scope & Content:
Topics of correspondence include general news from friends and family, for example, the illness of Mrs Keith Erskine (Mountstuart Elphinstone's sister) is mentioned in the letters from David Erskine; Mountstuart Elphinstone's evidence for the committee on the states of affairs of the East India C...
Correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone for 1831
Scope & Content:
Topics of correspondence include the proposed establishment of an Association for the Encouragement of Literature (Mss Eur F88/81/11); invitations to dine; requests for recommendation and patronage; and general news about friends and family. One letter, Mss Eur F88/81/12, is in Italian
Correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone for 1832
Scope & Content:
Topics of correspondence include general news from friends and family, invitations to dine/visit and requests for Mountstuart Elphinstone's recommendation, patronage and benevolence. Also includes a letter from Charles Lushington (Mss Eur F88/83/7) which contains a brief account of the death of S...