This journal begins with Elphinstone at home. He comments on the Elphinstone College, the death of James Elphinstone, his declining health and the literature he reads. Pages 28-29, 80-81, 209-210 have blank pages between them
Papers and correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Includes miscellaneous papers and letters, etc. from Henry Dundas Robertson and James Grant [Cunninghame Duff] regarding the Raja of Satara; list of salaries, pensions, and characters of principal persons at Poona, Satara, etc.; the original plan of the auxiliary force in a letter to the Supreme ...
With a copy of the Governor General's General Order on completion of conquest of the Peishwa's terrority, 29 August and 26 September 1818; remarks on the route marched by Sir William Grant Keir's division from Baroda through Malwa in 1817-1818; Dhackjee's interference with the Baroda cotton trade...
With copies of the Bombay Gazette from Oct to Nov 1823 and Sep 1826; the Bengal Hurkaru from Aug to Nov 1826; and the Bombay Courier from Sep to Oct 1826