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Lot 137

MURRAY FAMILY OF OCHTERTYRE
Papers and correspondence relating to the Murray family of Ochtertyre, 1825 to 1907

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14 October 2020, 11:00 BST
Edinburgh

£300 - £500

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MURRAY FAMILY OF OCHTERTYRE

Papers and correspondence relating to the Murray family of Ochtertyre, including: ten letters from Wellington's quarter-master general Sir George Murray regarding his appointment as lieutenant-general and civil administrator of Upper Canada in 1814 ("Nothing further to do now in England but to wait for a wind..."), his first speech in the House of Commons in 1825 ("Canning turned round and reached across an intermediate bench to shake hands with me and said that nothing could be better..."), political and family matters (writing confidentially that he is to succeed Mr Huskisson as Secretary of State for the Colonies), etc., 1814-1828; geologist William Edmond Logan (six letters from 141 George Street, Edinburgh, four to Alexander Murray regarding politics, 1853, two to Augusta, 1859); Anthony Murray (Sir George Murray's nephew) to Major Armstrong (three, regarding family history, 1882); Rudyard Kipling (one-page autograph letter to Lady Campbell: "I'm a parent myself and so far from prescribing to lecture parents on their duties towards their kids...", November 1907); and other family letters and papers including the valuation of Drunlandrick, 1839 and family tree, c.100 pages, 4to and 8vo, 1825 to 1907

Footnotes

The lot also includes a four-page contemporary copy of Amelia Fancourt's moment-by-moment account of the Mutiny at Vellore of 1806, in which her husband Colonel St. John Fancourt of the 34th Foot was killed. In it she describes how she hid with her children in the house with their ayah ("...she took the children under my bed...and was no sooner there than several shots were fired into the room... the children were screaming with terror at the fire & I expected our last hour had come..."), their escape and rescue. The original of this account is held in the Warren Hastings papers at the British Library (see Ferdinand Mount, The Tears of the Rajas; Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India, 1805-1905, 2015). It was also published, with slight differences, in The Sydney Gazette, June 14 1842. With it, in the same hand, is a copy of a report from a soldier of the rescue party.

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