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

Correspondence and papers. MS.5122/1 through to MS.5122/113 (dated 1808-1844) comprise miscellaneous correspondence and papers, mainly relating to the University of Edinburgh (appointments to chairs, the botanic garden, the museum of natural history, building projects, and other University affairs). Correspondents include Alexander Monro secundus, Daniel Rutherford and other professors at Edinburgh, and the Revd G H Baird, Principal of the University. MS.5122/114 through to MS.5122/123 (dated 1815-1825) comprise letters and petitions, mainly from the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of Edinburgh. The subject matter mainly concerns legislation before Parliament, including bills for the regulation of madhouses in Scotland, 1815, and to amend the Apothecaries Act, 1825.

1808-1844

124 items (numbered 1-123 plus 63A)

MS.5122/1-113 purchased from Bernard Halliday, Leicester, 25 March 1927, item 161 (accession 45275). MS.5122/114-123 purchased from R D Gurney Ltd, 1988 (accession 348066)

Papers of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1881) are held as MSS.5120-5121.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).