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35 archives found for 'Grant, James Augustus'

  • 66.

    LETTER BOOK, containing sponge paper copies, correspondence on the eve of the EPRE, mostly letters or telegrams sent by HMS and Sir Francis de Winton (Acting Secretary of the EPRE) (1886-1887), numbered 1-174 (incomplete), 4to

    Copy-letters/telegrams from Sir Francis de Winton to John Pender (1), George S. Mackenzie (5), Messrs. Kynoch & Sons (1), Messrs. Forrest & Son (1), Comte Paul de Borchgrave (2), William Mackinnon (3), William Bonny (1), Sir John Kirk (1), William Burdett-Coutts (1), Messrs. Gray, Dawes & Co. (3), Robert Arthington (2), Arthur J. Mounteney-Jephson (1), Robert H. Nelson (1), manager Pacific Steamship Navigation Co. (1), Sec. of the Army and Navy Cooperative Society (1), Bywater, Tanqueray & Co. (1), Thomson (1), John Walker (1), Rowland Ward & Co. (1), Dr. Leslie (1), some addressees unknown, also "Memorandum by Sir Francis de Winton"; HMS to William G. Stairs (3), Edmund M. Barttelot (2), Sir Baker Russell (1), Baroness-Burdett-Coutts (2), Pearce Morrison (1), chamberlain of the City of London (1), Phil Robinson (1), Eric Barrington (1), William Mackinnon (12), John R. Troup (1), George S. Mackenzie (1), Sir Julian Pauncefote (1), General Hutchinson (1), J. W. Watson (1), Robert Arthington (1), Gray, Dawes & Co. (1), Robert H. Nelson (1), Hume Purdie (1), Messrs. Watson Bros. (1), Forest & Sons (1), Comte Paul de Borchgrave (2), Council Administring Congo Free State (1), some addressees illegible; also George S. Mackenzie to William Mackinnon (1), John Pender to HMS (1), extract from a letter to HMS from George S. Mackenzie, "List of goods (…) for shipment to Congo", "Instructions for Major Barttelot", "Instructions for Mr. [John R.] Troup and Mr. Ingham", note by James Augustus Grant, "Last instructions"

  • 6910.

    a. Letter from James Augustus Grant to Sir Henry Rawlinson (President Royal Geographical Society), regarding the offer to get him elected as a member of the Royal Geographical Society, 17-07-1872, London

  • 6910.

    b. Letter from Laurence Oliphant to Sir Henry Rawlinson (President Royal Geographical Society), mentioning his fear that "rumours are likely to be circulated calculated to damage Livingstone's credit and character", 29-07-[1872], Paris

  • 6910.

    c. Letter from HMS to Sir Henry Rawlinson (President Royal Geographical Society), informing him of his London address, 29-07-1872, Paris

  • 6910.

    d. Letter from HMS to Sir Henry Rawlinson (President Royal Geographical Society), showing his pride in receiving the snuffbox from Queen Victoria, stating that he could easily forgive the English geographers for their unkind remarks "if I was not aware that the same principle of hostility still lives", 02-09-1872, London

  • 6910.

    e. Newspaper cutting, "[Memorial to] the late Captain [John Henning] Speke", [1872], [?]

  • 6910.

    f. Photographs of HMS in 1872 (8,5 x 6,3) and 1877 (9,2 x 6), James Augustus Grant (9,1 x 5,6) and John Hanning Speke (9 x 5,9)

  • 4660.

    Four Great African Travellers (Burton, Speke, Grant and the Bakers), [187?], autograph draft, 37 pp., including some in proof, 4to

  • 4864.

    Statement by Colonel James Augustus Grant contradicting "misstatements concerning the Expedition of Speke and Grant to which I had the honor to belong", London, 14-03-1874

  • 2044.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, expressing his condolences on the death of the Pocock brothers, Nairn, 02-10-1877

  • 2045.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, concerning the right date of his dinner invitation, Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, 01-03-1878

  • 2046.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, requesting of him to "undertake to connect the Zambezi with the Uelle of Georg August Schweinfurth with the view of ascertaining whether this route is practicable for an overland line of telegraph between the Cape and Egypt", London, 07-06-1878

  • 2047.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, informing him of Sir Samuel Baker's, Verney Lovett Cameron's and Sir Frederick Goldsmid's opinions on an overland telegraph line in Africa, Nairn, 31-07-1878

  • 2048.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, concerning a lecture by Stanley at Inverness, arrangements for a lecture in Nairn, Nairn, 25-10-1878

  • 2049.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, "I have told our children that you are to bring Kadu [African boy] with you", Nairn, 02-11-1878

  • 2050.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, "our oldest boy (…) will hear you on the 16th", about Stanley's lecture in Inverness, Nairn, 09-11-1878

  • 2051.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, suggesting him to write a biography of John Hanning Speke, about Speke's observation instruments, arrangements being made for the construction of an overland telegraph line between the Cape and Egypt "and you would assist us materially in carrying out th, Nairn, 26-12-1878

  • 2052.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, inviting him to a reception at the Bristol Hotel, London, [1878]

  • 2053.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, mentioning the wish of Alexander Low Bruce for Stanley to assist in the establishment of a Scottish Geographical Society, London, 16-08-1884

  • 2054.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, news from his wife and oldest son, about General Gordon ("he has been insubordinate all his life and I think it doubtful whether he will leave his post"), concerning the establishment of a Geographical Society in Scotland, "when are you disposed to give, Nairn, 27-08-1884

  • 2055.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, "(…) can you come here to eat your Christmas dinner with our family party today", London, 25-12-1884

  • 2056.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, inviting him to their family party on Christmas day, London, 22-12-[1885]

  • 2057.

    Letter [copy] from HMS to James Augustus Grant, about the death of Bombay, London, 14-01-1886

  • 2058.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, showing his approval of Stanley having taken Tippu Tip and forty followers with him ("a grand piece of diplomacy"), stating that the EPRE "will just have a 'walk over' without obstacle of any kind", about the newspapers that are allowed to receive Stanle, London, 26-02-1887

  • 2059.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, congratulating him on the EPRE, denouncing the German influence in East Africa and expressing his hope that he may never see "Africa to be covered with Herrs", his comment on Stanley's observations on the Albert Nyanza, mentioning his son's landing at Ca, Nairn, 27-12-1889

  • 2060.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, commenting on Stanley's map and official report to Colonel Euan Smith in The Times, stating that "the English public would prefer reading imaginary rather than real travels but they (…) will be educated by your thruthful account", on the immediate necess, London, 13-02-1890

  • 2061.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, recalling a former conflict between him and General Gordon, mentioning a rumour that Cecil Rhodes had asked Stanley to be Governor of Swaziland, London, 23-02-1890

  • 2062.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, "I hope to meet you at [William] Mackinnon's dinner (…)", London, 30-04-1890

  • 2063.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, claiming that the idea of a steamer on Victoria Nyanza should not be adopted by the Stanley Exhibition Committee but by philanthropists and men of science, London, 22-05-1890

  • 2064.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, regarding Stanley's membership of the Athenæum Club, Athenæum Club, London, 25-05-1890

  • 2065.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS, offering him a crocodile skin and an ivory fitted smoking tray, London, 10-07-1890

  • 2066.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to [?], about Stanley's return from Africa, "we may congratulate ourselves that he is alive to relate to us the particulars of his remarkable journeyings", Nairn, 22-09-1877

  • 2067.

    Letter from James Augustus Grant to [?], "Stanley's letter is deeply interesting and the tale of slavery will do much good", possibility of a lecture tour by Stanley in Scotland, Nairn, 15-10-1877

  • 2068.

    Letter from Henry Walter Bates to James Augustus Grant, mentioning Joseph Thomson's wish to join the EPRE, Royal Geographical Society, London, 15-01-1887

  • 2069.

    Correspondence HMS with Margaret Grant (widow of James Augustus Grant), s.l., 1893-1894 (3 pieces)
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