Includes letters from Captain James Edward Katon; Anne Elizabeth Bontine [nee Anne Elizabeth Elphinstone Fleeming]; Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden; William Cunninghame Bontine; Morgan Lloyd; Mrs Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden [nee Clementina Elphinstone Fleeming]; Mrs Catalina Paulina Katon [widow of Charles Fleeming Elphinstone]; and Mr A Begbie. Topics of correspondence include the promotion to Post Captain received by Captain Katon; the ill health of William Cunninghame Bontine; the birth of two daughters by Viscountess Hawarden; the birth and death of Mary Keith Lloyd's child [nee Mary Keithy Elphinstone] and her increasingly worsening ill health; the troubles over the Cumbernauld estate and it being entailed to John Elphinstone; proposed visits to Hookwood and other general news about friends and family. Some of the letters have brief annotations by Mountstuart Elphinstone regarding his response
Correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone for 1856-1858
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- Dates of Creation06 Jan 1856-27 Dec 1858
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description1 file 178 folios
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