Dundas, Henry, (1742-1811), 1st Viscount Melville, statesman

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Surname:	Dundas
Forenames:	Henry
Gender:	Male
Date:	1742-1811
Title:	1st Viscount Melville
Biography:	ODNB link for Dundas, Henry (1742-1811) 1st Viscount Melville, statesman
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P162866 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P8733 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Henry Dundas

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1628-1939: corresp and papers	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD51	NRA 10188 Dundas See HMC Papers of British colonial governors 1782-1900, 1986
2	c1790-1809: corresp and papers	Duke University: William R Perkins Library	XVIII-F	NRA 22507 Dundas See R Morriss, Guide to British Naval Papers in North America (1994)
3	1793-1796: corresp and papers	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur C 436	See Annual Report 1987-88
4	corresp and papers	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections		See HMC Papers of British cabinet ministers 1782-1900, 1982
5	corresp and papers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 27594-96, 40100-02, 41079-85, 41345, 41767-68, 43770
6	corresp and papers	University of Michigan: William L Clements Library	Melville papers	See Guide 1978
7	1794-1809: additional corresp	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	Acc.11612	See Annual Return 1998
8	1782-1810: corresp	Harvard University: Houghton Library	bMS Eng 1327	NRA 24376
9	1783-1811: family corresp	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD235/10	NRA 34965 Bonar Mackenzie
10	1782-1849: misc personal and political corresp of the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.9370
11	1786-1810: commercial corresp and papers	Harvard University Business School: Baker Library		See R Morriss, Guide to British Naval Papers in North America (1994)
12	1783-1810: papers rel to East India Company	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng misc a 25, b 345-46
13	corresp as Governor of the Bank of Scotland	Lloyds Banking Group Archives (Edinburgh)	MEL	NRA 41517
14	1795-1806: corresp rel to Cape Colony (16 items)	Brenthurst Library		See Guide
15	corresp rel to Highland military affairs	West Highland Museum	NRA(S)0451	NRA 13685 W Highland Mus
16	1786-1809: corresp and papers rel to India	British Library: Asian and African Studies	IOR/H
17	corresp and papers rel to India	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library	GB 133 Eng MSS 523, 670-699, 926-927
18	letters (10) rel to India	London University: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)	MS 18945
19	1780-1793: papers rel to Ireland	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)		See Accessions to Repositories 1969
20	corresp and papers rel to Ireland	National Library of Ireland	MSS 54-55A
21	1789-1807: letters and papers rel to Isle of Man	Aberdeen University, Special Collections Centre	MSS 2009-11, 2013, 2015-6, 2023, 2027	NRA 16080 Dundas
22	c1794-1812: letters received	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections		See Accessions to Repositories 1986
23	1792-1799: corresp and papers rel to medical service in India (30 items)	Wellcome Collection	MS.5121
24	military and political corresp	British Library, Manuscript Collections	loan 57	NRA 20952
25	1777-1811: misc corresp	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 9657-9819, 10225-10324, 10954 Passim
26	misc corresp and papers	Library of Congress, Manuscript Division		See Quarterly journal, May 1960, p186
27	1760-1811: naval corresp and papers	National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive	MEL	NRA 30121 Nat Maritime Mus
28	1806: prosecution case papers rel to his impeachment	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	Acc.11974	See Annual Return 2001
29	1786-1811: corresp and papers mainly rel to Scotland (71 items)	Wellcome Collection	MS.5120
30	1778-1810: corresp (23 items) mostly rel to Scottish affairs	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library		See R Morriss, Guide to British Naval Papers in North America (1994)
31	corresp and papers rel to Scottish transport	London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections	COLL F	NRA 7536 Dundas
32	corresp and papers rel to St Andrews	University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, University Collections and Museums Directorate	msDA816.D8	NRA 14799
33	corresp rel to West Indies	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS W Ind s 7-8
34	letters to William Adam	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS1454	NRA 9954 Adam
35	1793-1811: letters to Lord Arniston	Edinburgh University Library, Heritage Collections	La II 500
36	1772-1806: corresp with Lord Auckland	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 34412-60 passim
37	1792-1796: corresp with Balfour family	Orkney Archive	D2	NRA 16075 Balfour
38	1781-1806: corresp with Lord Barham (18 items)	National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive	MID/1/54	NRA 30121 Nat Maritime Mus
39	1785-1795: letters from Sir Francis Baring	Baring Archive	193.12	NRA 30566 Baring Bros
40	1790-1791: corresp with Scrope Bernard	Buckinghamshire Archives	D/SB	NRA 7343
41	1780-1794: corresp with James Boswell	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	GEN MSS 89	NRA 22146 Boswell
42	1759-1810: corresp with Lord Buccleuch	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD224/30, 689, etc	NRA 34806 Buccleuch
43	1782-1796: corresp with Edmund Burke	Sheffield City Archives	WWM	NRA 1083 Wentworth Woodhouse See Copeland & Smith, Corresp of Burke, 1955
44	1804-1808: corresp with Lord Castlereagh	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D3030	NRA 12865 Stewart
45	1796-1797: letters from Hugh Cleghorn	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 69097
46	1796-1801: corresp with Lord Clive	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	Clive	NRA 23682 Clive
47	1792-1811: corresp with Sir Alexander Cochrane	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 2568-73 passim
48	1790-1811: letters (10) to Sir William Cornwallis	National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive		NRA 315 Noel
49	1786-1792: dispatches to Lord Cornwallis	The National Archives	PRO 30/11
50	1794-1798: letters to Lord Coventry	Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service	705:73	NRA 1310 Coventry
51	corresp with Dundas family	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS3246	NRA 8398 Dundas
52	1773-1784: letters to Sir Adam Fergusson	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS3572	NRA 41047 Fergusson
53	1791-1811: letters to Forbes family	Falkirk Archives	A37	NRA 15476 Forbes
54	1782-1804: letters to Sir William Forbes	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	Acc.4796
55	c1798-1811: letters from Frederick Augustus, Duke of York	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections		See Accessions to Repositories 1990
56	letters to George III	Royal Archives		See Later Correspondence of George III, ed AAspinall, 5 vols 1962-70
57	1768-1792: corresp with Sir John Gordon, letters to his mother	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD235/8, 9/7	NRA 34965 Bonar Mackenzie
58	1775-1806: letters (11) to Charles Gordon	Edinburgh University Library, Heritage Collections	La II 499
59	1790-1798: letters to Sir James Grant	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD248/99	NRA 32594 Ogilvie-Grant
60	1784-1810: corresp with Lord Grenville	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 58914-18
61	1793-1800: letters to Lord Grey	Durham University Library and Collections	Grey of Howick collection	NRA 6228 Grey
62	1792-1802: letters to Lord Hardwicke	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 35662-754 passim
63	1797-1801: letters from Lord Harris and James Stuart	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur F 66
64	1791-1806: letters to Lord Harrowby	Harrowby Manuscripts Trust		NRA 1561 Ryder
65	1789-1791: letters to GV Hart	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D3077	NRA 23780 Hart
66	1785-1800: corresp with Warren Hastings	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 29168-92, 29234 passim
67	corresp with Lord Hobart	Buckinghamshire Archives	D/MH	NRA 1
68	1799-1811: corresp with Sir Alexander Hope	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD364	NRA 10172 Hope See NRA(S)1021
69	1796-1807: corresp with William Huskisson	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 38734-37
70	1793-1804: letters (20), incl four from Rufus King and ten to him	New York Historical Society		See R Morriss, Guide to British Naval Papers in North America (1994)
71	1785-1804: corresp with Harford Jones	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 41767
72	1798-1807: corresp with Harford Jones	Huntington Library	mssHJ 1-88	NRA 23683 Kentchurch Court
73	1797-1806: corresp with Lord Keith	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.9733
74	1778-1800: corresp with Lord Liverpool	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 38192-424 passim
75	1807-1810: letters to Lord Lonsdale	Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle	D LONS/L	NRA 17777 Lowther
76	1792-1801: corresp with Lord Lynedoch	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 3594-604 passim
77	1798-1802: letters (21) to Lord Macartney	Kimberley Africana Library		NRA 26032 Macartney
78	1790: letters to William Macdowall	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD237/12/46	NRA 32483 Tods
79	1782-1809: corresp with Lord Minto	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 11139-40	NRA 10476 Minto
80	letters (59) to Sir James Murray-Pulteney	The Morgan Library	MA487,297,1260-90	NRA 30863 Murray-Pulteney
81	1804-1805: letters (10) to Lord Nelson	National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive	CRK/9	NRA 30121 Nat Maritime Mus
82	1798-1801: letters (14) to Frederick North	Kent History and Library Centre	U471/C47	NRA 5392
83	1808-1812: corresp with Spencer Perceval	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development		NRA 8587 Holland See HMC corresp file - Holland, David
84	1790-1801: letters from William Petrie	National War Museum of Scotland		NRA 27982 Baird
85	1793-1805: letters to William Pitt	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
86	corresp with William Pitt	The National Archives	PRO30/8
87	1794-1809: letters (20) to Duke of Portland	Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections	PwF3479-3504	NRA 7628 Cavendish-Bentinck
88	1791-1805: corresp with Donald Robertson	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 3944-53 passim
89	1786-1801: corresp and papers from William Ross and others	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.9369
90	1782-1783: letters to Lord Shelburne	Collection held privately: enquiries to Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Film dep 961-1005	NRA 37645 Petty
91	1797-1803: corresp with Lord Sidmouth	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	152M	NRA 8747 Addington
92	1796-1797: letters to JG Simcoe	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	1038M/O12-13	NRA 12870
93	1799-1811: letters to Sir John Sinclair	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS189/4	NRA 10552
94	1793-1804: letters (11) to Earl Spencer	British Library, Manuscript Collections		NRA 10410 Spencer
95	1797-1800: letters from Earl Spencer	British Library, Manuscript Collections		See Annual Return 1998
96	1800-1803: letters to Stewart family	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS2654	NRA 15460
97	1784-1792: letters from Charles Stuart	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.9368
98	1798-1801: corresp with Lord Wellesley	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 13456-59, 37274-76, 37285, 37309-10 passim
99	1791-1793: corresp with Lord Westmorland	National Archives of Ireland		NRA 22312 Fane
100	1794-1800: corresp with William Windham	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 37874-79 passim
101	1804: letters to Sir William Young	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	Acc.6305	See Annual Report 1974-75 p59
102	1802: Admiralty ledger, preserved by Henry Dundas	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	Acc.14578	See Annual Return 2023