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Mss Eur F88/118

Record Id:
040-000676081
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
037-000673747
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000001006.0x000265
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88/118
Title:
Correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone for January to March 1841
Scope & Content:
Topics of correspondence include requests for recommendation and patronage, and general news from friends and family. Also includes letters from William Henderson and people at East India House, regarding his enforced two years' leave of absence due to the state of his mental health. Henderson writes to Mountstuart Elphinstone detailing his story and asks for his help in his appeal to return to India. Also includes letters from Lord Elphinstone (for example, Mss Eur F88/118/42), detailing the latest on an ongoing dispute between him and the Court of Directors, regarding his decision to move the seat of government from Madras to somewhere better suited to his health (a letter from B Edmonston, Mss Eur F88/118/24, provides information on the powers of a Governor when absent from the seat of government)
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Project / Collection:
India Office Private Papers
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-000673220
036-000673285
037-000673747
040-000676081
Is part of:
Mss Eur F88 : Elphinstone Collection (2): Private Papers, Correspondence and Journals of Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), Bengal Civil Service…
Mss Eur F88 Series 2 : Mountstuart Elphinstone: Chiefly private correspondence with friends and relatives
Mss Eur F88 Series 2 Sub-series 3 : Mountstuart Elphinstone: Chiefly private correspondence with friends and relatives at home

 

Mss Eur F88/118 : Correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone for January to March 1841
Contains:
Mss Eur F88/118/1 : Letter from Mrs Elizabeth Elphinstone [alias Stone] at Calcutta, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/2 : Letter from James Drummond Buller Fullerton Elphinstone at East Lodge, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/3 : Letter from Mary Somerville to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/4 : Letter from Thomas Frankland Lewis at Palazzo Bernini, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/5 : Letter from Mrs Mary Stewart-Mackenzie, Lady Hood, at [Hillside Lithgow?], to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/6 : Letter from Francis Whitworth Russell at Moorshidabad, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/7 : Letter from Basil Hall at Portsmouth, to Mountstuart Elphinstone, enclosing a printed letter by Basil Hall to the editor of…
Mss Eur F88/118/8 : Letter from R Laurie at Maxwelton House, Dumfriesshire, to his cousin Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/9 : Letter from Sir William Hay Macnaughten at Jellalabad, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/10 : Letter from James Erskine at Putney Heath, to his uncle Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/11 : Letter from the East India Rooms, 8 St Martin's Place, to Mountstuart Elphinstone [author illegible]
Mss Eur F88/118/12 : Letter from Colonel William Henry Sykes at 47 Albion Street, Hyde Park, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/13 : Letter from James [Cunninghame] Grant Duff at Eden by Banff, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/14 : Letter from J Nicholls at Calcutta, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/15 : Letter from Mrs Mary Stewart-Mackenzie, Lady Hood, at [Billeside], to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/16 : Letter from Francis Warden at The Grove, Blackheath, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/17 : Letter from H Gordon at 66 Brooke Street, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/18 : Letter from John Darlington at Bradford, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/19 : Letter from Eleanor Begbie at Leamington, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/20 : Letter from J Morgan at Madras, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/21 : Letter from Henry Willock at East India House, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/22 : Letter from John Femister at Edinburgh, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/23 : Letter from John Elphinstone, 13th Lord Elphinstone at Madras, to his uncle Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/24 : Letter from B Edmonston at India House, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/118/25 : Letter from John Hope at 13 Euston Place, Leamington, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
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Hierarchy:
032-000673220[0002]/036-000673285[0003]/037-000673747[0051]/040-000676081
Container:
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Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 file 135 folios
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1841
End Date:
1841
Date Range:
01 Jan 1841-12 May 1841
Era:
CE
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Former External References:
Mss Eur F88 Box 4 B9
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
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