Miscellaneous legal and financial documents of Sir T. S. Raffles.
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This file contains correspondence concerning Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles financial arrangements. Also included are invoices and receipts for his salary between 1822-1823 in Singapore. Two bargain and sale documents are also included.
This file contains letters to Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles from William Marsden, an orientalist and numismatist who lived and worked in Fort Marlborough, Sumatra 1770-1779. He published a History of Sumatra in 1783 and had a reputation as both a talented writer and a scholar of zoology, botany, li...
Notes in Lady Sophia Raffle's hand, possibly relating to the Memoir she published. Includes notes on Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles and on published works on the Eastern Seas and on posthumous works by Fredrick King of Prussia.