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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C34-36; D199-200; E104-110; F31-33
Title:: Raffles Collection
Scope & Content:: Official, demi-official and private correspondence and papers of Sir Stamford Raffles chiefly relating to Java, the Malay Archipelago, and Japan.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1783-1825
Extent:: 15 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur E109
Title:: Raffles Collection XI. This volume contains papers relating to Pontianak, Amboina, Mantawai, Indrapura, Trinidad, the maritime code of the Malays, a charge against Raffles by Dr. Tytler, &c.
Scope & Content:: Raffles Collection XI. This volume contains papers relating to Pontianak, Amboina, Mantawai, Indrapura, Trinidad, the maritime code of the Malays, a charge against Raffles by Dr. Tytler, &c. 1, pp. 1˗153: Mr Burn’s Letterts & Memoirs regarding Pontiane. (a) pp. 1˗30: J. Burn to Tho...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1800-1825
Extent:: pp 64l (35 x 21 cm)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C34
Title:: Raffles Collection I. This volume contains miscellaneous papers of quarto size. The principal documents are copies of 12 letters from Lord Minto, drafts of five Ietters to Lord Minto, and of four to the E.I.C. ; letters to native princes and papers on the Java expedition of 1811.
Scope & Content:: Perhaps the most interesting document is a letter from Raffles to ? W. Ramsay, dated 10th November 1805. This is the only dated document of this period in the whole collection. The dated documents are distributed thus ˗˗ 1805 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1818 1820 1823 1824 1 4 6 6 3 4 4 1 2 1 ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1805-1824
Extent:: pp 376 (27 x 22cm)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F33
Title:: Raffles Collection X. The mission to Japan (1812) ; the formation of an establishment at Singapore (1819); Sumatran vocabularies; and Malay Law are the chief items of this volume.
Scope & Content:: 1, pp. 1˗6: Thos S.Raffles to the. . . Governor in Council, Prince of Wales Island. Batavia, 18th February 1814. On piracy˗˗ “Nothing can tend so effectually to the suppression of Piracy ... the establishment or British Agents ... at the leading Ports ....” [True copy.] 2, pp. 7˗40: A. de N...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1812-1823
Extent:: pp 384 (40 x 25 cm)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur D199
Title:: Raffles Collection VIII. Some correspondence of Captain Francis Light regarding Kedah ; some papers on Johor and Singapore; a note on the “Eastward” and a report of a journey by T. Barnes are the principal contents of this volume.
Scope & Content:: Pieces relative to the Malay Peninsula. 1, pp. 1˗53: Mr Light regarding Queda. 1786. These pages are really a separate volume bound in. Inside the cover is the bookplate of Sir T. Stamford Raffles. The first 25 pages are occupied by copies of Letters to and from Francis Light˗˗the rest bein...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1783-1823
Extent:: pp 388 (34 x 21 cm)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur E106
Title:: Raffles Collection IV.˗˗Pieces relative to the affairs of Palembang. All the contents of this volume are concerned with Palembang in Sumatra, and the neighbouring islands of Bangka and Billiton.
Scope & Content:: There are copies of two Dutch records of earlier date, but most of the documents pertain to 1811, when Raffles entered into corre- spondence with the Sultan of Palembang, and sent agents to treat with him. Raffles advises the Sultan to drive the Dutch from his country “at once”; “for they ar...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1791-1819
Extent:: pp 328 (37 x 25 cm)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur E107
Title:: Raffles Collection V. Miscellaneous letters to and from divers authorities at Macasser (Celebes), Java and Madura, from June to September 1814, with the relative financial statements.
Scope & Content:: All the documents in this volume, except the first and last, are connected with a committee, appointed in July 1814, to adjust unsettled accounts in the Eastern District of Java. Reports from this committee, on Cheribon, Tegal, Pekalongan, Semarang, Surakarta, Jokyakarta, Besuki, Banyawangi,...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1814-1815
Extent:: pp 338 (34 x 21 cm)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur E108
Title:: Raffles Collection IX. A report on Bencoolen (1819), an account of the ruling priests of Sumatra, papers connected with Mr. Burton’s travels in Sumatra, and papers relating to Pulo Nias occupy the greater part of this volume.
Scope & Content:: 1, pp. 1˗132: Chas. Winter, C. Methven & William Jack [See Lady Raffles’ Memoir, p. 406; and Boulger’s Life, p. 286. The Rev. C. Winter was Raffles’ chaplain; Dr. Jack, “another member of our family, my invaluable and highly respected friend” ; Captain Methven was on Raffles’ staff.] t...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1818-1822
Extent:: pp 463 (35 x 22 cm.)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F32
Title:: Raffles Collection VII. An account of the Nassau Islands, and population statistics of the Japara district are the chief items of this volume.
Scope & Content:: Raffles Collection VII. An account of the Nassau Islands, and population statistics of the Japara district are the chief items of this volume. 1, pp. 1˗8: Articles of Capitulation. Print. Dated 17th and 18th September 1811 and signed by P. A. Agnew, S. Auchmuty, De Kock, J. W. Janssens. A n...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1811-1820
Extent:: pp 118 (45 x 28 cm.)

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