Country Code
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GB
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Repository Code
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231
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Repository
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University of Aberdeen Special Libraries and Archives
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Reference
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GB231/MS 2015
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Title
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Papers relating to conditions in and administration of Invernessshire and Western Isles of Scotland
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Dates
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1817
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Access Status
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Open
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Description
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Papers relating to conditions in and administration of Invernessshire and the Western Islands of Scotland. These manuscripts appear to have been sent to Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, when he was First Lord of the Admiralty, to enlist his support as a member of the Government and a Scottish family which had played such a prominent part in Scottish affairs. MS 2015 and MS 2016 are contemporary copies of originals.
MS 2015 Copy of letter, dated March 1817, written by Duncan Shaw, Sheriff Substitute, Long Island District of Invernesshire to Claud Russell. He gives an account of the conditions in Long Island District and estimates the amount of provisions required to be imported during the coming months.
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Level
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Fonds
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Extent
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0.01 Linear Metres
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Creator Name
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Duncan Shaw, Sheriff Substitute, Long Island District of Invernesshire Claud Russell was the legal agent of Ranald George Macdonald of Clanranald
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Finding Aids
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Paper list available at the University of Aberdeen, Special Collections and Archives.
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Language
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English
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Archival History
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The papers appear from internal evidence to have been acquired together from different lots in the same catalogue issued by a second-hand bookseller. They were catalogued in Aberdeen University Library in September 1939 and may have been part of the collection of books and manuscripts bequeathed by J. M. Bulloch.
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