Country Code
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GB
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Repository Code
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233
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Repository
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National Library of Scotland
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Reference
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GB233/MS.5510-5721
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Title
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Sir Robert Liston
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Dates
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1756-1832
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Access Status
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Open
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Description
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Papers of the mission to Bavaria and Ratisbon, 1774 - 1776; Copy letterbook of official correspondence between Liston and William Eden, Baron Auckland, 1774 - 1776; Journal and precis of dispatches of J.L. Doerfeld, secretary to Lewis de Vismes, Envoy Extraordinary to Sweden, 1774 - 1776; Personal letters addressed to Liston, 1756 - 1832; Copies of Liston's personal letters, 1757 - 1832; Miscellaneous copies of state papers, Berlin, 1777 - 1779; Copy letterbook of correspondence from Berlin, 1779 - 1780; Official papers and correspondence concerning Turin, including copies of Liston correspondence with Lord Grantham, 1782 - 1783; Papers, copies of letters, etc., given to Liston at the beginning of his embassy to Madrid, 1783, n.d.; Official papers covering the period of Liston's embassy to Madrid, n.d.; Correspondence between Liston and successive Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs (C.J.Fox, Lord Temple and Lord Carmarthen), 1783 - 1788; Miscellaneous official papers concerning Liston's embassy to Stockholm, 1789 - 1792; Copies of Liston's official letters in Stockholm (incomplete series), 1789 - 1792; Official papers, copies of letters and reports of Sir Robert Ainslie, Liston's predecessor in Constantinople, prior to 1793 and n.d.; Official papers, memoranda and notes on the Turkish government, 1794; Copy letters to Lord Grenville and some of Grenville's dispatches, 1794 - 1795; Official papers, memoranda, etc., concerning Constantinople, 1795; Official correspondence between Lord Grenville and Liston concerning Liston's embassy to Washington, 1796 - 1800; Official papers relating to The Hague, 1802; Official correspondence between Liston and Lord Hawkesbury relating to The Hague, copies and originals, 1802; Official papers relating to The Hague, 1803; Official correspondence, copies and originals, relating to The Hague, 1803; Correspondence between Liston and Lord Hawkesbury relating to Copenhagen, 1803 - 1804; Letters and papers on William Armstrong and the island of Santa Cruz, 1803; Copies of correspondence prior to Liston's second arrival in Constantinople, 1804 - 1811; Copies of letters to Lord Castlereagh regarding Constantinople, 1812 - 1820; Copies of negotiations for peace treaties, 1814; Papers on the Ionian Islands, c.1817; Papers relating to the estate of Millburn, 1821 - 1832; Journals of journey from Calais to Leghorn via Madrid, 1769 - 1770; Journal of journey from Bayonne to Lyons, n.d.; Miscellaneous notes and anecdotes collected on travels, n.d.; Journal, January, 1776; Journal of agricultural notes made in Ratisbon, 1776; Lady Liston's journals: North America, 1796; Tour to Virginia and North and South Carolina, 1797; Description of the resignation of General Washington as President, of visits to him at Mount Vernon, and of his death, XXXX; Tour to New York and the eastern States, 1798; Journeys to Lebanon Springs, Lake George, etc., 1799; Journey to the Falls of Niagara, 1799; Journey to the Natural Bridge in Virginia, 1800; Journey to Lower Canada, 1800; Journey from the United States to the West Indies, 1800; Return to England, and journey to France, 1801; Sweden and Denmark, 1803 - 1804; Arrival in Constantinople, 1812; Excerpts from journals, 1814 - 1815; Diary and description of Constantinople, 1812 - 1814; From Constantinople to Naples, 1815 - 1816; From Naples through Germany to London, and return to Constantinople, 1816 - 1817; From Constantinople home, 1820; Miscellaneous unidentified sketches and plans, n.d.; Plan of Gogar village, 1829; Plan of Listonshill, property owned by Liston in Sweden, 1791; Sketch and plan of additions to Millburn Tower sent by Alexander Ramage Liston to Sir Robert Liston, 1813; Three plans of Millburn Tower, 19th century; Two plans of part of the embassy buildings at Constantinople, 19th century; Six plans of details of buildings, possibly Millburn Tower, 19th century; Two plans of the Turkish, Persian and Russian frontiers in Asia, late 18th century; Volume of poems, notes, extracts from books, and a diplomatic cipher, 1794, 1807, n.d.; Manuscripts in German script: Die Erschaffung Adam und Eva' in the form of a libretto; 'Haubt Relation uber das Churfurstenthum Bayern'; miscellaneous verses, 1776, n.d.; Satirical and genealogical works in Spanish: 'Historia y papeles de el Duende Politico', possibly by Manuel Freire de Silva, 1735 - 1736; 'Vida del sutil critico Duende de Madrid', by Manoel Freire de Silva, n.d.; 'Pequena Pieza Jocoseria intitulada El Marques mas conturbado per Gefe de la injusticia', 1775; Extracts from 'El Tizon de Espana' by Cardinal Hurtado de Mendoza y Bobadilla, 16th century, 19th century.
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Level
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Fonds
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Finding Aids
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Summary guide to contents of items within National Library of Scotland: Catalogue of Manuscripts acquired since 1925, Volume IV (Edinburgh, 1982) (detailed persons and places index within the volume).
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Language
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English German, Spanish
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Related Material
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James C. Nicholls: 'Lady Henrietta Liston's Journal of Washington's Resignation, Retirement and Death', Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xcv, no.4 (Oct. 1971), pp.511 - 520.
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