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Sydney, Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount, 1723-1800. Document signed : Whitehall, 1765 Sept. 30.

Title: Document signed : Whitehall, 1765 Sept. 30.

Being an order to pay Robert Melvil £300 as a quarter's salary as Governor of Grenada, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (fol.)

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Graham, John, of Antigua. Grant of five hundred acres of wood land in Great River Division, Tobago, 1768 May 9 / His Majesty to the Hon'ble John Graham, Esq.

Title: Grant of five hundred acres of wood land in Great River Division, Tobago, 1768 May 9 / His Majesty to the Hon'ble John Graham, Esq.

John Graham of Antigua bought these two plantation lots from the executors of the original owner, Alexander Brown, who died 9 July 1766. This grant confirms his possession under named conditions of payment. Signed by Robert Melvill, governor-general of Grenada, and by H. Symson.

ArchivalResource: 5 leaves + 1 map in case ; 51 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11406025 View

Thomas Gage papers 1754-1807 1759-1775 Gage, Thomas, papers

Title: Thomas Gage papers 1754-1807 1759-1775 Gage, Thomas, papers

The Thomas Gage papers consist of the military and governmental correspondence and headquarter papers of General Thomas Gage, officer in the British Army in America (1754-1763) and commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America between 1763 and 1775. The papers include incoming correspondence and retained copies of letters written by Gage, together with a large quantity of documents related to military administration and manuscript maps of North America. The collection is particularly strong in documenting British administration of North America after the French and Indian War, interactions with Native Americans, and the years preceding the American Revolution. The series is described in a separate finding aid. Thomas Gage warrants

ArchivalResource: 70 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-341gag?rgn=main;view=text View

MacDowall-Ross, 1799-1805

Title: MacDowall-Ross 1799-1805

ArchivalResource: 1 volume

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Melville, General Robert, 1770-1771

Title: Melville, General Robert 1770-1771

ArchivalResource: 1 bundle

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Pinkerton, John, 1758-1826. John Pinkerton letters, 1775 Dec 14-1815 Jan 31.

Title: John Pinkerton letters, 1775 Dec 14-1815 Jan 31.

Manuscript, in multiple hands, of several hundred letters written mostly to, by, and about John Pinkerton, primarily related to his professional life as a historian and poet. Many of the letters concern his or his correspondent's research in Scottish history and their reactions to recently published works on antiquarian topics in the history of the British Isles as well as publications about Scottish literature, especially poetry and ballads, or requests to borrow or obtain copies of books or requests for copies of manuscripts in libraries. Many concern Pinkerton's efforts to publish his own works as well as works of others, including letters from Dodsley and John Nichols responding both positively and negatively to his requests to publish his Scottish ballads and other works, and provide insight into the world of publishing as well as literary societies and libraries in the 18th century. The correspondence contains references to the long relationship between France and Scotland and France as a continued resource for important manuscripts in resolving questions of early Scottish history. In a 23 July 1786 letter to Pinkerton, Samuel Knight discusses his reaction upon reading Horace Walpole's play Mysterious Mother; other letters discussing morality plays refer to a Walpole letter of October 18, 1786; a letter dated 25 August 1792 from Mary Berry expressing a desire that Pinkerton visit Lord Orford at Strawberry Hill. Other letters of note: an inventory of portrait paintings at Taymouth Castle (Scotland); a letter from Charles Vallancy which endeavors to interpret the names of ancient Pictish kings; another which narrates Vallancy's fruitless search for the Psalter of Cashell in the Trinity College library and Gailic duain. Many letters address Pinkerton's interest in geology and geography, including one about "Scots fossils" and others about mountains in South America. Numerous other letters acknowledge Pinkerton's gifts of his own works to them, including one from the Literary and Antiquarian Society of Perth upon receiving a donation of his own History of Scotland. The four volumes are accompanied by two indexes, originally from vol. 4, one alphabetical and one chronological, though some of the letters indexed here have since been removed.

ArchivalResource: 4 v. ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702184557 View

Correspondence relating to General Robert Melville (1723-1809), 1753-1772

Title: Correspondence relating to General Robert Melville (1723-1809) 1753-1772

ArchivalResource: 3 manuscript letters or documents

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb237-coll-432 View

Houghton Library. Houghton Library printed book provenance file, L-Q. 1942.

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, L-Q.

Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.

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