Papers relating to conditions in and administration of Invernessshire and Western Isles of Scotland Papers relating to conditions in and administration of Invernessshire and the Western Islands of Scotland. These manuscripts appear to have been sent to Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, when he was First Lord of the Admiralty, to enlist his support as a member of the Government and a Scottish family which had played such a prominent part in Scottish affairs. MS 2023/1 Letter, dated 26 March 1817, from Claud Russell, Edinburgh to Rt. Hon. Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville. He encloses MS 2023/2, a copy of which was to be presented to the Lords of the Treasury by the Duke of Atholl, requesting Dundas' support for the measure proposed. As an agent for Clanronald, Russell also describes the conditions of tenants. Encloses MS 2015 in confirmation of facts given in memorial. MS 2023/2 Copy of memorial, dated 1817, by Hon. Mary Lady Hood Mackenzie of Seaforth, Alexander Wentworth (Lord Macdonald), Ronald George Macdonald of Clanronald (M.P.), Alexander Norman Macleod of Harris, Colonel Alexander Macdonald of Boisdale, Roderick Macneill of Barra and Ronald Macdonald of Bornish: all proprietors of Hebrides or Long Island in counties of Inverness and Ross, to the Rt. Hon. Lords Commissioners of H.M. Treasury. Describes in detail conditions in Long Island in Inverness and Ross including islands of Lewis, Harris, North and South Uist, Benbecula and Barra. 1817