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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 88900 Name Boyd, William, secretary and agent, fl 1778-1833 Level [40] File

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Title:
Ceylon
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Includes comments by North on the researches made by Joseph de Jonville into the religion and customs of the Cingalese, with reference to Greek philosophy and place-name etymology, and reports by North apparently explaining his government's expenditure. Anthony Bertolacci William Boyd Sylvester ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1800-1804
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Ceylon
Scope & Content:
Includes documents relating to negotiations to end the Kandyan war, and correspondence about the end of North's governorship, the appointment of his successor Sir Thomas Maitland, and his journey back to England. George Arbuthnot Robert Arbuthnot William Arbuthnot George Atkinson Anthony Bertola...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1805-1808
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Ceylon
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to Ceylon in the period immediately after North's governorship. Anthony Bertolacci (13 letters) William Boyd Sarah Cassan Thomas Christie Sylvester North Douglas. His account with the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn Spiridion Foresti King George III (King’s Warrant di...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1808-1812
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Ceylon
Scope & Content:
A Mr Kee or Ker (1815) and A. Bertolacci (1820) describe further relations with the kingdom of Kandy. There are draft reports by North about the recruitment of the army in Ceylon, after 1805, incomplete. A list of 'Ceylon seeds' including some local names, 'botanical names unknown'. Joseph Atki...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1813-1825
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Correspondence, A-F
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Includes letters from John Barker, Consul at Aleppo, mentioning Lady Hester Stanhope and also referring to the defeat of Bonaparte; Barker also forwards to North accounts of the travels in the Near East of John Fiott and of Mr Ibrahim. There are letters concerning pictures and other goods sent t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1792-1814
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Boyd
Scope & Content:
Letters addressed to William Boyd, North's secretary in Corsica and then Ceylon, former secretary to the Consul at Venice. With three letters addressed to his brother, James Boyd, including one from Horatio Nelson, [1796]. Alexander Adamson Patrick Ballantine [Luigi?] Belgodere de Bagnaja [Luisa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1791-1802
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Boehm-Desoulavy
Scope & Content:
William Boyd, secretary and later trustee of North, writes to Lord Glenbervie about Ceylon affairs including the Supreme Court and the pearl fisheries. There are also letters from Sir Codrington Edmund Carrington, Chief Justice of Ceylon. Messrs Edmund Boehm & Co William Boyd (9 letters) Maj...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1800-1804
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Papers connected with the executorship of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford
Scope & Content:
Inventories, bills and correspondence. William Boyd David Brown to Alexander Milne Christie's auction catalogue of 'Silver-gilt plate...of Francis [sic], Earl of Guilford, lately deceased...', 1828 John Craufurd to the Earl of Sheffield, 1 letter about the Academy library and the Earl's reply, b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1827-1833
Extent:
1 volume