Saunders-Dundas, Robert, (1771-1851), 2nd Viscount Melville, statesman

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Surname:	Saunders-Dundas
Forenames:	Robert
Gender:	Male
Date:	1771-1851
Title:	2nd Viscount Melville
Biography:	ODNB link for Dundas, Robert Saunders- (1771-1851) 2nd Viscount Melville, statesman
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P140448 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P25375 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Robert Saunders-Dundas

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	corresp and papers	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD51	NRA 10188 Dundas See HMC Papers of British cabinet ministers 1782-1900, 1982
2	1782-1849: misc personal and political corresp and papers, with Ist Viscount	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.9370
3	corresp and papers rel to India	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library	GB 133 Eng Mss 523, 670-699, 926-927
4	corresp and papers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 40100-02, 41079-85, 41345, 41767-68, 43770
5	1807-1830: misc corresp	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 6524, 7199 Passim
6	1807: papers rel to East India Co	British Library: Asian and African Studies	Mss Eur F495	See Annual Return 2004
7	1790-1838: corresp, mostly on Indian affairs	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	Acc.12001	See Annual Return 2001
8	1783-1849: family and personal corresp	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD235/10	NRA 34965 Bonar Mackenzie
9	corresp	British Library, Manuscript Collections	loan 57	NRA 20952
10	1804-44: corresp mainly rel to Edinburgh (123 items)	Wellcome Library	MS.5122
11	1807-26: naval corresp and papers	National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive	MEL/101-03 LBK/4	NRA 30121 Nat Maritime Mus
12	corresp as Governor of the Bank of Scotland	Lloyds Banking Group Archives (Edinburgh)	MEL	NRA 41517
13	corresp and papers rel to Ireland	National Library of Ireland	MSS 54-55A
14	corresp and papers rel to Scotland	University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, University Collections and Museums Directorate	msDA816.D8	NRA 14799
15	1782-1841: corresp and papers rel to Highland roads and bridges	London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections	COLL F	NRA 7536 Dundas
16	corresp rel to West Indies	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS W Ind s 7-8
17	1807-12: corresp with Lord and Lady Minto	Leeds University Library, Special Collections	Minto
18	1807-1851: corresp and papers	University of Michigan: William L Clements Library	Melville papers	See R Morriss, Guide to British Naval Papers in North America (1994)
19	1811-49: corresp rel to naval matters	Duke University: William R Perkins Library	XVIII-F	NRA 22507 Dundas See R Morriss, Guide to British Naval Papers in North America (1994)
20	1811-1829: corresp and papers rel to Admiralty administration	Library of Congress, Manuscript Division		See R Morriss, Guide to British Naval Papers in North America (1994)
21	1807-12: corresp rel to India (132 items)	London University: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)	MS 18945
22	1812-20: papers (29pp)	Library and Archives Canada	mG 24	See R Morriss, Guide to British Naval Papers in North America (1994)
23	1812-14: corresp and papers rel to the War of 1812	Huntington Library	mssHM 81125-81166	See Guide 1982
24	1820-37: corresp with Balfour family	Orkney Archive	D2	NRA 16075 Balfour
25	1812-26: corresp with Lord Bathurst	British Library, Manuscript Collections	loan 57	NRA 20952 See HMC Bathurst MSS
26	1782-1804: corresp with Lord Bolton	North Yorkshire County Record Office	ZBO	NRA 8638 Orde-Powlett
27	1814-29: corresp with George Canning	University of Michigan: William L Clements Library	George Canning papers	NRA 22709
28	1814-18: corresp with Lord Castlereagh	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D3030	NRA 12865 Stewart
29	1833-37: letters to Robert Christie	Edinburgh City Archives	NRAS3563/233	NRA 38890 Edinburgh CL
30	1831-48: corresp with Sir George Clerk	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD18	NRA 29182
31	1812-25: corresp with Sir Alexander Cochrane	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 2264-68, 2574-76
32	letters to Thomas, Lord Cochrane	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD233	NRA 8150 Cochrane
33	1811-49: (copies) letters (350) to JW Croker	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 706
34	1835-47: letters (14) to Lord Dalhousie	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD45	NRA 17164 See NRA(S)0805
35	1812-30: letters (15) to Sir Thomas Foley	National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive	FOL	NRA 30121 Nat Maritime Mus
36	1809-15: corresp with John Foster	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D 207/53	NRA 6701 Skeffington
37	1798-1823: letters (29) from Frederick Augustus, Duke of York to him and his father	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections		See Accessions to Repositories 1990
38	1833: letters to Henry Goulburn	Surrey History Centre	319	NRA 777
39	1807-08: corresp with Charles Grant and Edward Parry	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng hist c 210
40	1813-33: corresp with 2nd Earl Grey	Durham University Library and Collections	Grey of Howick collection	NRA 6228 Grey
41	1811-12: corresp with Lord Harrowby	Harrowby Manuscripts Trust		NRA 1561 Ryder
42	1812-14: letters (18) from Sir Samuel Hood	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 63102
43	1810-25: letters to Sir Alexander Hope	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD364	NRA 10172 Hope See NRA(S)1021
44	1844-46: letters to JJ Hope Johnstone	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS2171	NRA 12630 Hope-Johnstone
45	1831-33: letters from Sir Henry Hotham and John Irving	Hull History Centre (Hull University Archives)	DDHO/7/114	NRA 5408
46	1807-30: corresp with Sir Harford Jones	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 41768
47	1812-15: corresp with Lord Keith	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 9733-34
48	1811-46: corresp with John Lee	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 3433-45 passim
49	1808-26: corresp with Lord Liverpool	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 38245-328, 38411, 38571-76 passim
50	1818-20: corresp with Sir David Milne and Earl of Seafield	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.9735
51	1807-12: corresp with Lord Minto	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 11289-90, 11302-03	NRA 10476 Minto
52	1812-49: corresp with Sir Robert Peel	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 40221-601
53	1811-47: letters from Sir Robert Peel	Harvard University Business School: Baker Library		See R Morriss, Guide to British Naval Papers in North America (1994)
54	1808-10: corresp with Spencer Perceval	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development		NRA 8587 Holland See HMC corresp file - Holland, David
55	1806-29: corresp with Sir Walter Scott	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 3875-910 passim
56	1812-27: letters (20) to Lord Spencer	British Library, Manuscript Collections		NRA 10410 Spencer
57	1821-28: corresp with JA Stewart-Mackenzie	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD46	NRA 30101 Stewart-Mackenzie
58	letters to Lord Wallace	Northumberland Archives	III	NRA 811
59	1812-14: corresp with Sir John Warren	National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive	LBK/2	NRA 30121 Nat Maritime Mus
60	1833-49: letters (15) to Duke of Wellington	University of Southampton Library	MS 61	NRA 20085
61	corresp with Duke of Wellington	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)		See Annual Report 1983
62	1811-20: corresp with CP Yorke	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 45044-46
63	1808-1851: misc corresp incl Lord Rutherfurd, Thomas Graham Stirling and John Borthwick of Crookston	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 9697-10683, 10218-10958 Passim

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