Letters, mainly to the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville, relating to the West Indies.
Dates
- Creation: 1781-1830
Extent
2 Volumes
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS.W.Ind.s.7].
Full range of shelfmarks:
MSS.W.Ind.s.7-8
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 1654
Biographical / Historical
Henry Dundas (1742-1811), 1st Viscount Melville (1802). Politician, Secretary of State for Home Affairs (1791-1794), Secretary of State for War (1794-1801).
Robert Saunders Dundas (1771-1851), 2nd Viscount Melville. Politician, son of Henry Dundas.
Compiled with reference to the Dictionary of National Biography.
Other Finding Aids
The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.
Listed as no. 178 in Manuscript Collections (Africana and non-Africana) in Rhodes House Library, Oxford, Supplementary accessions to the end of 1977 and Cumulative Index, compiled by Wendy S. Byrne (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1978).
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquisition information unknown.
Bibliography
- Listed in Private Papers of British Colonial Governors, 1782-1900, by The Historical Manuscripts Commission (1986).
- Title
- Correspondence of Henry Dundas and Robert Saunders Dundas
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Marion Lowman
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Weston Library
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