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1. Add MS 5253

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Add MS 5253
Title:
'Collections of Costumes of various nations, Chiefly Indian; Chinese Buildings, &c.', from the Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, by different hands
Scope & Content:
Drawings of inhabitants of several parts of the world from a variety of sources. Drawings 1-2, 8-11, 14-17, 23-25 and 28-29 are associated with the traveller and artist, John White (fl. 1577-1593). Hans Sloane commissioned watercolour copies from an album now in the British Museum Prints &...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (78 drawings)

2. Add MS 45273

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Add MS 45273
Title:
Raffles Papers
Scope & Content:
RAFFLES PAPERS. Vol. III. Complimentary addresses from the people of Java to Raffles on his retirement as Lieutenant-Governor in 1816. Contents as follows:- (1) Addresses from residents and public bodies in Batavia, two of which, ff. 3-5 (in both Dutch and English), 6-7b (a copy), are printed i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, Javanese, and Malay
Date Range:
1816
Extent:
1 item

3. Mss Eur E378

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur E378
Title:
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles papers.
Scope & Content:
Correspondence in Malay, Javanese and English, mainly between Sir Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), East India Company servant 1795-1824, as Lieutenant-Governor of Java 1811-16, and local rulers, concerning the return of Java to the Dutch.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, Javanese, and Malay
Date Range:
1813-1817
Extent:
30 folios

4. Sloane MS 2376

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2376
Title:
James Cuninghame [Cunningham]: notes on botany and zoology in East Asia and the Canary Islands, plus correspondence with Juan Baptista Poggio and Isidorus Arteaga de la Guerra
Scope & Content:
Public Domain in most countries other than the UK. Includes: 1. Plantae in Insula Palma Collectae Mense Januario 1697/1698, ff 5-9. 2. Copy correspondence between Cuninghame and Juan Baptista Poggio, 1698, ff 10-21; and copy correspondence between Cuninghame and Isidorus Arteaga de la Guerra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1706
Extent:
1 volume