Advanced Search

Advanced Search

31 - 40 of 62 results

10
Date Created
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to James Dundas

January 16, 1783

Dundas, David, Sir, Bart, 1749-1826

Discusses correspondence and family matters. Explains that their brother George is planning to go to the West Indies. Discusses their brother Ralph's difficulty getting naval work, especially because of the prospect of peace. Comments on a visit...

GLC02549.26
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to James Dundas

February 1783

Dundas, Isabella, 1747-1823

Informs James of their father's (her father-in-law) health, which is not good: "he endures his Situation as Life well spent enable A true Christian!" Notes that she is writing because her husband David is too busy to keep up his correspondence....

GLC02549.25
Collection Item
Autograph letter

to James Dundas [fragment]

24 April 1783

Dundas, David, Sir, Bart, 1749-1826

Comments on their correspondence, his hopes that James will soon visit, and their father. Discusses what he considers to be the self-destructive plans of their brother George, who intends to quit his job, marry, and live off his joint stocks....

GLC02549.56
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to James Dundas [fragment]

29 April 1783

Dundas, David, Sir, Bart, 1749-1826

Laments their brother George's plan to marry an American woman and move there forever. It will also force him to work outside the navy, for want of subsistence for a family. There are some contemporary notes on the address leaf.

GLC02549.27
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to James Dundas

2 June 1784

Dundas, David, Sir, Bart, 1749-1826

Hopes that James will visit "Now that the convulsion of Politicks is over." Mentions "contested elections" and commends "Mr. Pitt, for his Wisdom & discretion in dissolving the last Parliament." Discusses British politics, mentioning Charles Fox...

GLC02549.28
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to James Dundas

January 28, 1785

Dundas, David, Sir, Bart, 1749-1826

Discusses their correspondence and news of family and friends.

GLC02549.29
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to James Dundas

16 May 1785

Dundas, David, Sir, Bart, 1749-1826

Offers possible excuses for why James has not written and asks him to respond: "you are to set out for Scotland...perhaps you are not well. perhaps you are in Love..." Some contemporary notes on the address leaf.

GLC02549.30
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to James Dundas

January 16, 1787

Dundas, David, Sir, Bart, 1749-1826

Announces the birth of his daughter. Comments on problems he has riding horses. Seal intact.

GLC02549.33
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to James Dundas

21 April 1787

Dundas, David, Sir, Bart, 1749-1826

Asks for correspondence and news about their father's health. Makes a very cryptic comment: "I think the Young Ladies should erect a Pillar in honor of Dr Willis...He has at last out generalled the London Doctors. but as it is a delicate subject to...

GLC02549.31
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to James Dundas

17 May 1787

Dundas, David, Sir, Bart, 1749-1826

Discusses their correspondence, his expectation of the birth of a new baby, and their father's health.

GLC02549.32

Showing results 31 - 40