Collection 08-012 - David Macmillan collection. 2008 additions

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David Macmillan collection. 2008 additions

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Trent University Archives

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08-012

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1612-1931 (Creation)

Creator

Macmillan, David

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45 cm of textual records

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Macmillan, David

Biographical history

David Stirling Macmillan was born 9 October 1925 in Scotland. He received his Masters degree from Glasgow, Scotland and his Ph.D. from Sydney, Australia. He was archivist at University of Sydney from 1954 to 1968 and left Australia in 1968 to come to Trent University. Before he came to Trent he had been named a Fellow of the Royal Australian History Society. He was a Trent University professor for 20 years where he taught History from 1968 to 1987, with courses such as the Expansion of Europe, 1400-1825 and Russian History as well as, his specialty, Business and Economic History. He also taught some evening courses at Durham College in Oshawa for Trent. After a lengthy illness David Stirling Macmillan died 4 September 1987.

Custodial history

Papers were in the custody of the Macmillan estate until donated to Trent University Archives.

Scope and content

Collection consists of disparate materials collected by Professor Macmillan who was a philatelist. The correspondence and documents pertain to writers in Great Britain and the British Empire. The subject matter ranges from military campaigns between the British and the French, mutiny in the West Indies and India and the sugar and slave trade in the West Indies. Subjects of letters include: battles in India, trade routes in West Indies and Asia; wars with France, Spain, and Austria.

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Fonds acquired from the estate of Professor David Macmillan.

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Dutch
English
French
Spanish

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None

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For related records see the David Macmillan fonds (90-001 and 94-002).

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This fonds is an addition to 05-003.

General note

Note: The correspondence Box 1 is arranged alphabetically by recipient.

Box 1

Folder

Alexander, R., Commercial Bank Melrose 1839
1a. Alison, Colin 1813
Allison, James 1860
Anderson, John 1850
Anderson, Michael 1803
Barker, Thomas 1853-1866
Barraclough, Harry 1893-1914
Bell, James Thomas 1843
Bell, John 1827
Bellas, George 1754
Blaquiere, George 1816
Bradford, Thomas 1822
Bryon, Thomas 1849
Burn, Robert 1772
Carroll, Charles 1781
Chalmers & Guthrie 1824
Colonial Secretary, Sydney, Australia 1830-1839
Crookshank, George 1818
Darling, Thomas 1857
David, Sir T.E. 1894-1931
Deane & Deane 1892
Deane, William (London) 1853
Deane, W. (Sydney) 1860
Dumar, William 1849
Elbeston, Captain 1843
Evans, Robert 1789
Ewen, John ca 1770-1822
Extrait de la convention militaire de la legion suisse britannique 1855
Fairlough, John 1688
28a. Falconer, Dalgleish 1830
Fell, Alex and John 1846-1855
Fesq, William 1882-1883
Findlater, A. 1849
Fletcher, Charles 1850
Forbes, David (Lieut. Col.) 1820-1848
Forbes, William of Township of Packenham, Upper Canada 1847
Formen, John 1841
Fraser, Alexander 1910
Fraser, Thomas 1854
Gibson, Andrew 1832-1833
Glen, John 1780
Goldsbrough, Mort & Co. 1893
Gooding, Christopher 1686
Gordon, Miss M. 1903
Gordon, Edward Maxwell 1822 [related to John Ewen folder 26]
Gordon, Roger 1714
Governor of Canton 1818
Grahame, Mrs. 1839
Grahame [Graham], Barron 1825-1857
Grahame [Graham], Francis 1820-1846
Grahame, Mrs. James 1832
Grant, Jane 1847
Gray, Reverend Doctor George 1844
Grimmett, George 1798
Hailstone, Samuel 1819
[Hardman], Jenny from her brother [ ] Hardman [1873]
Hennessy, John 1835
Hofa, Dr. 1786
Holden & McCarthy [MacCarthy] 1851
Holmes, Robert 1683
Hopkinson, Sir Charles 1840
59a. Inglis, William 1786
Jenkins, Leolyn [Leolin] 1666-1684
Keith, James 1845-1850
Keyden, William 1824-1825
King, P.P. (Royal Navy) 1848
Kinnear & Monro 1853
Lamond, James 1858
Lang, Alexander 1843, 1878
London House Results 1867-1886
Macarthur, Emily [Mrs. James Macarthur] 1839, 1852
Macartney, Charlotte 1870-1885
Macartney, Flora C.A. 1893-1904
Macartney, Reverend H.B. 1853
Macartney, Jane 1875-1878
Macartney, J. Arthur 1863-1881
Mackay, Captain 1868
Marray, James Thomas 1852
Martin, William 1841
Mathieson, Andrew ca 1804
Maxwell Morison, William 1802
McAdam, James 1858
McCarthy, Donovan & son 1867
McInnis, Brisbane 1943
McKenzie, A.K. 1837-1861
McKillip, Archibald 1835
McNicoll, D 1842
84a. Middlebrook, Michael 1649
Milne, Baillie 1832
Mitchael Graham & Mitchael 1830
Mitchell, Alex. O.; James Mitchell; Mitchell Henderson & Mitchell; William Russell 1845-1847
87a. Mitchell, Major (Surveyor General, Sydney) 1850
Moir, James 1849
Morehead, R.A.A. 1846-1864
Morrison & Co 1786
Murray, Andrew 1858
Murray & McCombie 1858
Nelles, Hon. Abram 1834
Owens, Joseph 1841
Panton, William 1827-1849
Patterson, Mrs. 1908
96a. Paul, Robert 1833-1840
Plan for expediting mail from London to Edinburgh 1822
Playfair, Robert 1789
[Post office] - printed items re mail despatch 1833-1844
Prendergast, William 1837
Price, James 1836
Proceedings at a meeting of the Proprietors of Highland Estates held in Inverness 1892
Ranken, John 1866
Robinson, William 1796
104a. Royal Geographical Society 1889
Ruddock, George 1781
Russell, George 1802-1812
Salary account 1853-1860
Scott, James 1839-1840
Scott, Peter 1834
109a. Seamour, Edward 1664
Shaw, Lt. Col. 1833
Shiell & Small ca 1843
Smart, Thomas Ware 1839-1856; [1880]
Smith, Alexander 1836
Smith, Mrs. 1817
Smith, Mary 1863
Somervell, Francis 1781-1782
Speaker of the Legislative Council New South Wales 1845
Steele, John 1835
Stevenson & Son; D.B. Stevenson 1841-1845
Strachan Hall & Co. 1804
Strachan, William 1803
Teal, Jon'r 1813
Thomson, John 1844
Thorsby, Ralph 1709
Troop, Andrew 1780
Townes, Captain R. 1847
Vollmer, G.1902
Watt, Alex'r H. 1844-1848
Watt, Walter 1907
Welsh, David 1846-1847
Wilson, Jacob 1702
Wildman, Henry 1815
Miscellaneous: partial letters, envelopes, indecipherable
Lloyd's Register of Shipping, London, No.2 White Lion Court, Cornhill, Robert Brooks, 1848; from 1st July, 1848, to the 30th June, 1849. London: J.&H. Cox Brothers, 1848. (Note: the name "Robert Brooks" is on the outside cover. Several pages include information stamped in red colour. It is possible that the stamped notations may have been added by Robert Towns (1794-1873) who represented Robert Brooks & Co. as "R. Towns & Co., 16 Loftus Street, Sydney" is written by hand in ink at the top of the title page. An inserted newspaper clipping provides a description of the volume).

Box 2