The letters were sent in cypher and survive both as cyphers and translations. Each letter was numbered, either by the sender or recipient , from which it is clear that several letters do not survive: the earliest letter is number 44 and the latest 83, with several others missing within the seque...
Letters in cypher, probably in William Watts' handwriting.
Scope & Content:
The letters are similar in format to those of the sequence of letters he sent in 1757, but lack either dates or numbers. Both contain parts which have been decrypted.
Letter to Clive from the Select Committee partly in cypher and partly in plain text concerning his alliance with Mir Jafar. A decryption is attached on a different page.