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Mss Eur F88/133
- Record Id:
- 040-000677173
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000673747
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001006.0x000275
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F88/133
- Title:
- Correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone for April to July 1847
- Scope & Content:
- Topics of correspondence include requests for recommendation and patronage and general news about friends and family, including the death of Richard Strachey (Mss Eur F88/133/21). Also includes reports by Hay M Erskine that Mary Keith Macalister [Keithy] has left her husband to live in Glasgow with her seducer which results in Mountstuart Elphinstone's subsequent trip to Scotland and the dissolvement of Mary Keith and Alexander Macalister's marriage (for example Mss Eur F88/133/13). Some of the letters have brief annotations by Elphinstone regarding his response
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000673220
036-000673285
037-000673747
040-000677173 - 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 F88/133 : Correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone for April to July 1847 - Contains:
- Mss Eur F88/133/1 : Letter from William Adam Loch at 21 Fludyer Street, Westminster, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/2 : Letter from Miss Anne Elizabeth Elphinstone Fleeming at 31 Chapel Street, to her uncle Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/3 : Letter from William Murray at [John Street], to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/4 : Letter from William Henry Leslie-Melville at 23 Dover Street, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/5 : Letter from [TH] Ernst at 12 Bennet Street, Bath, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/6 : Letter from Sir Robert H Inglis to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/7 : Letter from Professor Adam Gordon at the university of Madras, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/8 : Letter from William Henry Leslie-Melville at the Court Room, India House, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/9 : Letter from Sir Henry Strachey at Sutton Court, Bristol, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/10 : Letter from William Adam Loch at 21 Fludyer Street, Westminster, to Mountstuart Elphinstone, enclosing a receipt from…
Mss Eur F88/133/11 : Letter from William Strachey at 115 Mount Street, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/12 : Letter from [TH] Ernst at 12 Bennet Street, Bath, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/13 : Letter from Hay M Erskine at Forthampton, to his uncle Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/14 : Letter from the Carlton, to Hay M Erskine [author illegible]
Mss Eur F88/133/15 : Letter from Helen Colquhoun Stirling at 6 Norfolk Street, London, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/16 : Letter from Sir Robert H Inglis at 7 Bedford Square, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/17 : Letter from John Elphinstone, 13th Lord Elphinstone on the Steamer Ripon, inside the Isle of Wight, to his uncle…
Mss Eur F88/133/18 : Letter from Colonel J Sutherland to Mountstuart Elphinstone, enclosing a supplement to the Delhi Gazette
Mss Eur F88/133/19 : Letter from William Erskine at 42 Chester Terrace, Regents Park, London, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/20 : Letter from John Elphinstone, 13th Lord Elphinstone at London, to his uncle Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/21 : Letter from William Strachey at 115 Mount Street, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/22 : Letter from Mrs Mary Ruthven, Lady Ruthven of Freeland at Freeland, to her cousin Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/23 : Letter from Major Robert E Burrowes at Backwell House, Bristol, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/24 : Letter from Major Moore at 23 Park Crescent, Portland Place, to Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mss Eur F88/133/25 : Letter from Harperstown, to Mountstuart Elphinstone [author illegible]
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- 032-000673220[0002]/036-000673285[0003]/037-000673747[0067]/040-000677173
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F88
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file 149 folios
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1847
- End Date:
- 1847
- Date Range:
- 02 Apr-27 Jul 1847
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Former External References:
- Mss Eur F88 Box 4 D24
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)