Correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone: private Indian correspondence for 1822 to 1823
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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...
Correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone for 1820-1853: Indian [Persian and Marathi] letters
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Includes a translation of letter from Syyad Irrutoolah of Delhi, 1820; Captain Graham's Persian poem, 1821; a prospect and specimen of the first volume of the epic George Nameh by Moollah Fyrooz bin Caoos, June 1836; letter from Tatia and Dada Maharaji, 1838; letter from the Iman of Muscat; lette...
Official References from Members of Council and Secretaries to Government. Vol. 3
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Includes official references and correspondence from: William Newnham; Sir Thomas Bradford; Francis Warden; John Warden; William Henry Wathen; John A Dunlop; John Bax; Charles Norris; Thomas Buchanan; Lestock Robert Reid; and Arthur Steele
Official References from Members of Council and Secretaries to Government. Vol. 4
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Includes official references and correspondence from Sir Thomas Bradford; Arthur Steele; John Warden; Charles Norris; John Bax; William Henry Wathen; and William Newnham
Papers and letters of Mountstuart Elphinstone regarding the lands of Biggar Mill
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Includes letters from John Miller, William Johnstone, George Turnbull, Patrick Cockburn, Sir Charles Adam, etc. Contains one large, folded folio (folio 51)