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Title:
Ceylon
Scope & Content:
Documents including North's commission as Governor and his instructions, including instructions from the Court of Directors of the East India Company. P A Agnew Major G B Barbut Andrew Barnard John Bartholomew John Chamur Hugh Cleghorn (12 letters) Lord Clive Sylvester Douglas, Lord Glenbervie ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1796-1798
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Ceylon
Scope & Content:
Consists mainly of documents detailing North's investigations into the management of the pearl fisheries at Mannar and Arippo [Arippu]. Mahomed Aliar Jayako Aratchie Major G B Barbut Colonel Josias Champagne Chingay Chinniah Hugh Cleghorn Lord Clive Messrs Drummond James Dunkin Ernest William Fa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1799-1804
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Ceylon
Scope & Content:
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 the export of cinnamon and reports on relations with the Court of Kandy. George Arbuthnot Robert Arbuthnot William Henry Cavendish Bentinck Anthony Bertolacci Lord Clive Henry Dundas The Prince of Wales, later King George IV Lord Hobart William Huskisson Hugh Ingli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1801-1803
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Ceylon
Scope & Content:
Includes a draft of North's will, dated February 1804, his correspondence with General Wemyss, commander of troops, and correspondence with Marquis Wellesley about Wemyss' requiring native troops to parade during Divine Service. Messrs Alexander & Colvin Colonel Baillie Lord William Bentinck...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
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:
Ceylon newspapers
Scope & Content:
Printed copies of, variously, the Ceylon Government Gazette, Ceylon Government Gazette Extraordinary and Supplement to the Ceylon Government Gazette, 1802 (March 15, 22, October 6), 1803 (February 2, 9, August 24, 31, September 7, 14), 1805 (July 18, 26), 1809 (February 8, 13), and the Bombay Cou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1798-1809
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Correspondence, A-F
Scope & Content:
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