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Brotherton Collection4
English Literature1

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letters4
portraits, scottish1
english poetry1
english fiction1

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Melville, Robert Saunders-Dundas4
Dundas, Henry 1st Viscount Melville2
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)1
Raffles, Thomas Stamford1
Peat, Alexander - the Briton.1
Elliot Murray Kynynmound, Gilbert1
1st Earl of Minto1

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Up to 19991

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Correspondence of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Earl of Minto, and Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville.

Elliot Murray Kynynmound, Gilbert

1807-1812

Comprises correspondence between Minto and Dundas (73 letters, including 39 copy letters); two letters from Lady Minto to Dundas requesting information about her husband in India; a letter from Lord C...

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Collection of autograph letters, notes, and related material, mainly sent to the first and second Lords Melville.

Dundas, Henry 1st Viscount Melville

1755-1848

Comprises autograph letters from upwards of 52 main correspondents to one or other of the Viscounts Melville between 1755 and 1848 with some additional letters to or from different correspondents incl...

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Miscellaneous literary and historical manuscripts apparently from the collection of the first or second Lord Melville.

Dundas, Henry 1st Viscount Melville

c.1789-1805

Comprises: (1) Alexander Peat, A.M.: The Briton, addressed principally to the people of Scotland, 74 pp.; with an autograph letter from the author, dated 28 September 1793; (2) Miscellaneous notes on ...

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Walter Scott, correspondence with related material

Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)

c.1807-1929

Comprises: (1) Correspondence from Scott to the following persons: (i) John Carne, 1824-1826, 2 letters and transcripts; (ii) Rev. Geo. Crabbe, [1812], 1 letter and transcript; (iii) His publishers J...

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