Papers of Henry Dundas

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. a. 25, b. 345-6
  • Dates of Creation
      1783-1810
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      3 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Papers, probably of Henry Dundas, relating to the East India Company.

Administrative / Biographical History

Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811) was a statesman. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).

Acquisition Information

The papers were given by Blackwell's in ca. 1965, and transferred from the Indian Institute in 1975.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 42035-7.

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