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1. Add MS 57696

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Add MS 57696
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Scope & Content:
R.U.S.I. MAPS. Vol. LXI (1-15). Agra - Hameerpore. 1. 'A sketch of ground in the vicinity of the fort and Taj at Agra', by A. M. Stewart; circa 1857. Scale given on map as 1:6000, with scale bars of 400 paces and 500 yards (= 3 inches), but scale statement ('Scale of 200 paces to 1 inch') indi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

2. IOR/L/MAR/B/313J-K

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IOR/L/MAR/B/313J-K
Title:
‘A Journal of a Voyage to the East Indies in the Ship London William Sedgwick Commander. From England, Consigned to Fort St. David Madrass and Bengal. Richd Allwright’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a journal (log book) by Richard Allwright, Chief Mate, of a voyage on the East India Company ship London, commanded by William Sedgwick. The journal is in two parts: the first part of the journal (folios 4 to 96) is dated 16 November 1749 to 10 February 1752; and the second...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Nov 1749-8 Jul 1752
Extent:
1 volume (187 folios)

3. IOR/L/MAR/B/698A

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IOR/L/MAR/B/698A
Title:
Dartmouth: Journal
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of a journal (log book) of a voyage to Madras [Chennai] and Bengal in the East India Company ship Dartmouth, recorded by the Captain of the ship Thomas Beckford. The journal entries are dated 14 October 1710 to 17 August 1713. The inscriptions on folio 2 of the journal s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Oct 1710-18 Sep 1713
Extent:
1 volume (131 folios)

4. Mss Eur C320

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Mss Eur C320
Title:
Fontenille papers.
Scope & Content:
Letters from Capitaine Fontenille, of the Regiment de Lorraine, to relatives in France, describing his part in Lally's campaign against the British and his experience of the siege of Pondicherry 1760-61.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1758-1761
Extent:
15 folios

5. Mss Eur Mack Private

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Mss Eur Mack Private
Title:
Colin Mackenzie Papers: Private Collection
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century-Early 19th century
Extent:

124 Volumes

6. Mss Eur Orme

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Mss Eur Orme
Title:
Robert Orme papers.
Scope & Content:
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).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1636-1796
Extent:
356 volumes