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Title:
Lord Glenbervie
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1794-1809
Extent:
13 volumes

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Title:
Papers relating to North's financial affairs
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1798-1800
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Papers relating to North's financial affairs
Scope & Content:
Including a statement of accounts relating to North's time in Corsica
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1796-1798
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Papers relating to North's financial affairs
Scope & Content:
Includes papers relating to North's house at 59 Conduit Street, London.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1801-1809
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Correspondence of Lord Glenbervie and North
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1802-1805
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Correspondence of Lord and Lady Glenbervie with North
Scope & Content:
North writes to his sister about the shortcomings of British and Dutch society in the colony. He complains of reductions in government expenditure enforced by Lord Hobart, and ironically anticipates that the next Governor to be appointed will reverse all his (North's) measures. To his brother-in-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1799-1802
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Adam-G Arbuthnot
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1801-1803
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Boehm-Desoulavy
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1800-1804
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
M Arbuthnot-Bertolacci
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1798-1807
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Saint Leger-Trotter
Scope & Content:
Julius Saint Leger John Sargent David Scott & Co William Turnbull, Captain of the ship 'Gabriel'. Bill of lading signed by, in the road of Funchal. James Gordon, copy of extract from a letter to David Scott Lord Sheffield (1st Earl of Sheffield) William Young Charles Smith, of Smith & Key...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1798-1805
Extent:
1 volume