Melville Correspondence

  • Reference
    • GB 133 Eng MS 926
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1786-1828
  • Physical Description
    • various sizes. 61 items;

Scope and Content

Correspondence (originals, copies, duplicates) of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and of Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount, relating mostly to Indian and East India Company affairs. The correspondence includes letters of:

  • John Bruce [(1744-1826), historian];
  • William Devaynes [(1730-1809), MP, chairman of the East India Company];
  • Jonathan Duncan [(bap. 1756, d. 1811), administrator in India];
  • Lord Eldon [John Scott (1751-1838), 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor];
  • David Scott [(1746-1805), merchant and director of the East India Company];
  • Andrew Stuart (1725-1801), lawyer and politician, member of Henry Dundas's Scotch ministry].
Numbers 20-28 concern the purchase of a house in Downing Street, London, for the East India Company (1801).