Copies of minutes and letters of the Secret Department of the Company's Treasury
Scope & Content:
These volumes give a good overview of the financial affairs of the Company during the period 1803-1834. The contents include statements of its cash balances from time to time, its borrowings and lendings, movement of bullion, rates of interest on stock, and purchase of Exchequer bills. There a...
Report of the Select Committee on East India Communications
Scope & Content:
The committee was appointed to enquire into the practical working of the current system of telegraphic and postal communications between England and the East Indies, China, Japan, Australia and Mauritius