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Container Reference (shelfmark) Mss Eur D742/2-6

1. Mss Eur D742/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D742/2
Title:
Letters to Sir T. S. Raffles from William Marsden
Scope & Content:
This file contains letters to Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles from William Marsden, an orientalist and numismatist who lived and worked in Fort Marlborough, Sumatra 1770-1779. He published a History of Sumatra in 1783 and had a reputation as both a talented writer and a scholar of zoology, botany, li...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1809-1826
Extent:
8 items

2. Mss Eur D742/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D742/3
Title:
Letters to Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles from a variety of persons (with index)
Scope & Content:
This file contains a letters written to Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles and Lady Sophia Raffles by a variety of persons, largely in the period 1823-26. During this period the Raffles family suffered the disaster of the burning of the ship Fame, on which they were returning to England with all thier p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1820-1826
Extent:
59 items

3. Mss Eur D742/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D742/4
Title:
Two original farewell addresses presented to Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles on his departure from Java in 1816. 'Statement of Personal Property belonging to Sir Stamford Raffles lost on board the Honourable Company's chartered ship Fame', sent by Raffles to the Court of Directors. Reply to the 'Second Address to Sir Thomas Stamford by the inhabitants of Benkulen, on his return to Benkulen after the destruction of the ship Fame'. [This reply, with the addresses, was later printed by Cox and Bayli...
Scope & Content:
This file contains the farewell correspondence between Sir Thomas Raffles and well wishers from Samarang on his departure from that place. Also included are documents listing the personal possessions of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles lost in the sinking of the ship Fame and a certificate to verify t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1816-1824
Extent:
5 items

4. Mss Eur D742/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D742/5
Title:
Miscellaneous legal and financial documents of Sir T. S. Raffles.
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence concerning Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles financial arrangements. Also included are invoices and receipts for his salary between 1822-1823 in Singapore. Two bargain and sale documents are also included.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1799-1825
Extent:
26 items

5. Mss Eur D742/6

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D742/6
Title:
Copy of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles' last will and testament.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1825
Extent:
1 Document

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