This is an interim version of our Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue while we continue to recover from a cyber-attack.
This catalogue is currently browse-only. The collection item request form is not available at the moment but will be reopened from Monday 15 December. Find out more about our current collection access suspension.
Search
Search Constraints
You searched for:Project / CollectionIndia Office Private PapersLevel[40] File
Letters to me at Madras in 1754-55, being helps to the history
Scope & Content:
p. [i]. Endorsement as follows:- "Letters to me at Madras in 1754-55, being helps to the history." p. [iii]. List of Contents. 1, pp 1-2 (31.5 x 20 cm.) Letter, dated Chandernagore, 12 Oct. 1754, from Mons. Duval de Leyrit to Orme. Original in French. 2, pp 5-6 (24.5 x 18 cm.). Letter, dated Pond...
p [i]. List of Contents of Vols. 290, 291 and 292. p. [iii]. Endorsement as follows :- Letters from Admiral Pocock. Original. 1, pp. 1-3 (22.5 x 18.5 cm.). Letter, dated Fort St. George, 6 March 1758, from George Pocock to Clive. Original. Says that things are quiet in the Carnatic, but that Lall...
p. [i]. Endorsement as follows:- Bengal Letters from Mr. Watts. Originals. 1, p. 1 (29.5 x 24 cm.). Letter, dated Patna, 26 March 1758, from W. Watts to Clive. Original. Sends some items of Military news; "that villain Omichund must be the spreader of those reports which Drake writes are so large...
p. [i]. Note as follows :- Letters from Col. Forde. Originals. 1, pp. 1-3 (25 x 19 cm.). Letter, dated Calcutta, 1 March 1758, from Francis Forde to Clive. Possibly original. Says that he came to Bengal at the request of the Bengal Council, but that, as they will not grant him the terms to which ...
p. [i]. Endosement as follows:- Letters to and from R. Orme, Esq. p. [iii-iv]. List of Contents. 1, pp. 1-2 (23 x 19 cm.). Letter, dated Fort Marlborough, 11 Feb. 1755, from Thomas Combes to Orme. Original. Congratulates him on his arrival in India and promotion to the Council; ascribes his own f...
Draft account of Mogul History and notes on various places in India
Scope & Content:
1, pp. 1-27. Draft account of Mogul History. In Orme's handwriting. This is headed Book XIV. See 298 (a) 4 and 329. 1 below. 2, pp. 31-64. Notes on Callicut, Anchediva, Cochin, Cananore, Cranganore, St. Helena, Pandarane, Vaipin Island, Repelin, Tanore, Bespur, Cotugan, Corin, Coulam, Onore, Chin...
1, pp. 1-35. Life of Sevaji. Original draft of 298 (b). Orme concludes with the following estimate of Sevaji: “Whensoever we shall obtain a history of his life written in his own country, he will doubtless appear to have possessed the highest resources of stratagem joined to undaunted courage, wh...