Colin Mackenzie Papers: General and Miscellaneous Collections
Scope & Content:
The Mackenzie 'General' and Miscellaneous Collections contain some 179 volumes or folders or papers, mainly comprising English translations from the languages of southern and central India (as distinct from Hindustan), and chiefly relating to the antiquities, legends, history, literature, religi...
Papers relating chiefly to Java and the Dutch East Indies collected by Col Colin Mackenzie (c1753-1821), Madras Army 1783-1821, engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian collector, while serving as Chief Engineer, Java 1811-13, comprising copies and translations of published and unpublished books and d...
Translations of works in Persian, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Sanskrit, Javanese, Dutch, and other languages, collected throughout his career by Col Colin Mackenzie (c1753-1821), Madras Army 1783-1821, engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian collector; also letters and reports from Mackenzie's Indian ag...
Orme Collection: papers of Robert Orme (1728-1801), East India Company servant, Bengal and Madras 1743-58, historiographer to the Company 1769-1801, chiefly collected for his `History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan from the year 1745' (London 1763, 1778).
Paper, dated 7 Jan 1807, proposing an embassy from India to the King of Persia, by Sir Harford Jones [afterwards Jones Brydges], 1st Bart (1764-1847), Bombay Civil Service 1781, Senior Merchant and Resident at Baghdad 1800, Envoy to Persia 1807-11.
`Memoir relative to India', dated 25 Oct 1806, by Sir George C Brathwaite Boughton, dealing chiefly with military organization, submitted to Viscount Howick (later 2nd Earl Grey) as Foreign Secretary and a member of the Board of Control.
Extracts and letters from Warren Hastings (1732-1818), Governor of Bengal 1772-74 and Governor-General 1774-85: (i) to David Anderson, sometime East India Company servant, Bengal (dated 1796-97), (ii) to James Anderson, and to Warren Hastings Anderson, his godson (dated 1810-17); also leters from...