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Chalmers, Thomas, (1780-1847), Church of Scotland minister and social reformer

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Surname: Chalmers
Forenames: Thomas
Gender: Male
Date: 1780-1847
Biography: ODNB link for Chalmers, Thomas (1780-1847), Church of Scotland minister and social reformer
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P138997 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P5288 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Thomas Chalmers
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
corresp and papers
Edinburgh University: New College Library
NRA 27818 Chalmers

See HMC Papers of British churchmen 1780-1940, 1987
2
1810-25: corresp (439 items)
St Andrews University Library
msdep93
See Sturges, Economists papers 1750-1950, 1975
3
private corresp
St Andrews University Library
msdep92
See Annual Return 1997
4
c1850: lecture notes
London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
MS ADD 162
5
lectures on the Epistle to the Romans (25 items)
Glasgow City Archives
TD584
See HMC Papers of British churchmen 1780-1940, 1987
6
1835-42: letters (10) to Lord Aberdeen
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 43237, 43240
7
1822-32: letters to Thomas Babington
Cambridge University: Trinity College Library
box 20
NRA 32441
8
1798-1836: letters (27) to James Brown, etc
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Coll/828
9
1820-47: letters (43) to William Buchanan
Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department
MS Gen 1036
See RP Sturges, Economists papers 1750-1950, 1975
10
1817-22: letters to Lord Elgin, mainly rel to pauperism
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRAS3955/78/2
NRA 26223 Bruce
11
1817-43: corresp with Sir John Gladstone
Gladstone's Library
Glynne-Gladstone MSS 98
NRA 14174 Gladstone
12
1834-42: corresp with WE Gladstone
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 44354-527 passim
13
1830-33: records of conversations with Joseph John Gurney
Edinburgh Central Library
NRA(S)3563
NRA 38890 Edinburgh CL
14
1834-44: letters to James Hog
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRAS1141
NRA 10167 Hog
15
1822-43: letters (24) to John Lee
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MSS 3435-51 passim
16
1802-41: letters to Lord Moncreiff and Sir HM Wellwood
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRAS333
NRA 10980
17
c1838: corresp with Fox Maule
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD45
NRA 17164

See NRA(S)0805
18
1823-32: letters to Charles Peebles
Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department
MS Gen 247
See information from website
19
1822-43: corresp with Sir Robert Peel (11 items)
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 40351-598 passim
20
1835-41: letters (22) to AL Simpson
Edinburgh University: New College Library
MSS BOX 1.4
NRA 39227 New College
21
1823-46: letters (c20) to Sir George Sinclair
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRAS189
NRA 10552
22
letters to Wood family etc
Edinburgh City Archives
NRA(S)2952/44
NRA 30966 Wood
23
1817-39: misc corresp and papers (25 items)
Special Collections, The Mitchell Library
NRAS2369
NRA 25434 Chalmers
24
1814-45: misc letters
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MSS 9657-9848, 10256-90
25
misc letters
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS.10997
26
1819-42: misc corresp
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
AAF
27
c1817-46: letters (10)
Huntington Library
See Guide to Literary MSS, 1979
28
1832-1842: 15 signed autograph letters from Thomas Chalmers, all but one are addressed to Miss Rebecca Bell of Woodhouse Lee, Canonbie, Dumfriesshire (the remaining letter to George Bell of Leith), discussing the state of the Church of Scotland during the campaign that culminated in the Disruption and the establishment of the Free Church of Scotland in 1843
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Coll-2083 (accession number: SC-Acc-2023-0031)
See Annual Return 2023