Correspondence of Henry Dundas and Robert Saunders Dundas

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

Scope and Content

Letters, mainly to the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville, relating to the West Indies.

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).

Robert Saunders Dundas (1771-1851), 2nd Viscount Melville. Politician, son of Henry Dundas.

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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. 178 in Manuscript Collections (Africana and non-Africana) in Rhodes House Library, Oxford, Supplementary accessions to the end of 1977 and Cumulative Index, compiled by Wendy S. Byrne (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1978).

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Bibliography

Listed in Private Papers of British Colonial Governors, 1782-1900, by The Historical Manuscripts Commission (1986).