Letters addressed to William Boyd, North's secretary in Corsica and then Ceylon, former secretary to the Consul at Venice. With three letters addressed to his brother, James Boyd, including one from Horatio Nelson, [1796]. Alexander Adamson Patrick Ballantine [Luigi?] Belgodere de Bagnaja [Luisa...
Consists mainly of a correspondence between Glenbervie and George Arbuthnot, deputy to his brother Robert Arbuthnot in the Ceylon Civil Service and later a partner in the Madras firm of Francis Lautour & Co. He describes North's measures as Governor, including retrenchments in the civil serv...
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.
Robert Arbuthnot, of the Ceylon Civil Service, writes to Lord Glenbervie about the Kandyan War, the death of Glenbervie's cousin Sylvester Gordon in Ceylon, and the deaths of many other Europeans from fever. To Lady Glenbervie he describes the Courts of Greater and Lesser Appeal. Lord Glenbervie...
William Boyd, secretary and later trustee of North, writes to Lord Glenbervie about Ceylon affairs including the Supreme Court and the pearl fisheries. There are also letters from Sir Codrington Edmund Carrington, Chief Justice of Ceylon. Messrs Edmund Boehm & Co William Boyd (9 letters) Maj...
Includes London booksellers' bills and a copies of a deposition by Mahomed Gani, servant of Ensign Robert Barry, concerning the killing of Barry and his fellow officers at Kandy, Ceylon. Barbara, Dowager Marchioness of Donegall Thomas Eden William Frederick Elliott Eden Francis Edwards Thomas Eg...
Includes Glenbervie's correspondence with Lord Hobart, and letters from Joseph de Jonville in Ceylon. Sir Frederick Hankey Hanwell & Parker, bankers?, of Oxford Lord Hawkesbury (Baron Hawkesbury, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, later Prime Minister) Mr Hawkins With a copy of a letter from George Fore...
Lord Minto writes to Glenbervie about debts owed to him by North, incurred when they were both in Corsica. There are letters relating to Count and Countess North and their losses of property in the West Indies and France. Major-General Hay MacDowall Henry MacLean Louisa A Marshall Lieutenan...