Topics of correspondence include requests for recommendation and benevolence, particularly from Mrs Sarah Carden who has been abandoned by her husband to live with a French woman (Mss Eur F88/101/21 and Mss Eur F88/101/51). She asks Mountstuart Elphinstone to use his influence to obtain alimony and a divorce. Also includes a request for Elphinstone to be godfather (Mss Eur F88/101/33) and the death of Major Robert E Burrowes' wife (Mss Eur F88/101/39) and bills and receipts for hotels and books
Correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone for 1837
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- Dates of Creation20 Aug 1836-01 Jan 1838
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