Extracts from the Melville Papers (microfilm)

Scope and Content

Extracts from the Melville papers, 1786-1788. Microfilm.

Administrative / Biographical History

Henry Dundas (1742-1811), 1st Viscount Melville (1802). Politician, Secretary of State for Home Affairs (1791-1794), Secretary of State for War (1794-1801).

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Note

Collection level description created by Marion Lowman, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.

Administrative/Biographical History compiled with reference to the Dictionary of National Biography .

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Listed as no. 10 in Manuscript Collections (excluding Africana) in Rhodes House Library, Oxford, compiled by Louis B. Frewer (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1970).

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No reproduction or publication of personal papers without permission. Contact the library in the first instance.

Additional Information

The originals are held by the National Library of Scotland (Bower Collection).