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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/131, ff 349-744
Title:: ‘Negotiations with the Ex-King of Cabool and the Maha Rajah Runjeet Singh’
Scope & Content:: Enclosure nos. 2-102 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of India, dated 13 August 1838. The enclosures are dated 16 May-11 August 1838. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to a plan to overthrow Dost Mahomed Khan [Dūst Muḥammad Khān Bārakzāy] as Emi...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13 Aug 1838
Extent:: 1 item (396 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F231/32, ff 9-75
Title:: 'Secret Letters received Aug. 1. 1857.'
Scope & Content:: This bundle consists of summaries of official secret letters received, mainly from the Governor General of India in Council (17 June 1857, Number 30; 19 June 1857, Number 31; 19 June 1857, Numbers 32-35), and from Bombay [presumably the Government of Bombay] (24 June 1857, Numbers 128-132; 25 Jun...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1 Aug 1857
Extent:: 1 item (67 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Seal XCVIII.3
Title:
Scope & Content:: Ceylon, etc. Ceylon: Proof impression of seal of Queen Victoria for.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1837-1901
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1039
Title:
Scope & Content:: Robert Hooke, FRS: Collection of scientific papers and letters: 17th cent. includes: ff. 1-25 b Geography: Papers of Dr. R. Hooke rel. to the "English Atlas," printed at Oxford: 1680-1683. ff. 1-25 b Moses Pitt, bookseller and publisher, of London: Papers relating to "the English Atlas": 1680-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3324
Title:
Scope & Content:: Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet: Collection by, of papers relating to natural history, medicine, etc.: 18th cent. includes: f. 4 Maryland, N. America: Remarks by J. Petiver on a Natural History Collection from: 18th cent. f. 4 Reverend H- Jones, of Maryland: Remarks on his Natural History collection ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 988
Title:
Scope & Content:: "RECUEIL HISTORIQUE, tiré de plusieurs autheurs": a collection of abstracts of histories and travels, compiled, according to a note on the first page, by James Le Fanu. The chief contents are:- (1) Abstract of Bussy Rabutin's -History of Louis XIV. [1662- 1693]. ff. 2 b-5 b;-(2) Notes on Peru ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

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