Letters from Robert James, Secretary to the Company, informing the recipient of signals agreed between the Company and the Lords of the Admiralty in order that the ships of the two organisations might recognise each other. A postscript confides that the Company's ships might use the same signals between themselves.
Orders and certificates of permission to the commanders of various ships to receive Clive and members of his suite on board their ships for passages to and from India.
Declaration made by Mohunloll and many named others that he protected 15 European soldiers by hiding them until he was forced to surrender them to Cossim Ali Khan [Mir Kasim].
"Regulations for the Annual Distribution of the Interest of Five Laack of Rupees given by the Rt Hon Robert Lord Clive and of Three Laack of Rupees given by Syf ul-Daula" [Saif ud-Daula].
Opinion given by William de Grey, Attorney General, upon the question of the legality of the Company and British subjects lending and borrowing money to and from foreign companies or foreign subjects.
Announcement of a Company resolution to diminish the number of slaves belonging to the Company in St Helena and a list of the numbers of slaves on the island in 1800 and 1804.
A letterbook containing copies of outgoing letters. The vast majority of the letters are to military officers of various ranks and members of the Council at Fort William. The author is nowhere named but may be Captain Martin White.
Scope & Content:
The letters are written from various Indian locations including Calcutta, Surie and several military camps. Correspondents include Major Yorke, Major Carnac, Bryan Scottney, Captain Broadbridge, John Johnstone, Captain Carstairs, Warren Hastings, Stanlake Batsan, Mr Motte, W B Sumner, Henry Vansi...