Correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone: private Indian correspondence for 1822 to 1823
Scope & Content:
Topics of correspondence include requests for information (for example, Mrs Ellen Ricketts' letter to Mrs Keith Erskine, Mountstuart Elphinstone's sister, regarding Captain John Simpson Bamford); letters of thanks for Elphinstone's patronage; letters from old friends renewing acquaintances; lette...