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Mss Eur F697/2
- Record Id:
- 036-003256599
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003252366
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100027581326.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F697/2
- Title:
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Lydia King Baker
- Scope & Content:
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Five diaries kept by Lydia King Baker, later Raban (1821-1862) covering 1840-1846 and recounting her voyage to India on board the Maidstone; her first year's residency in Noakhali, where her father, a surgeon in the East India Company, was stationed; her engagement to Herbert Raban during a visit to Sylhet; and of accompanying her husband on a regimental march from Dinapur to Delhi,
The reverse of the third diary contains a short journal kept by her father John Baker (1789-1852) of a voyage to the West Indies 1817-18 to serve as part of the 2nd Venezualan Hussar's in Venezualan's rebellion against the Spanish.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003252366
036-003256599 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur F697 : Raban Family Papers
Mss Eur F697/2 : Lydia King Baker - Contains:
- Mss Eur F697/2/1 : Journal of A Voyage to India and Two Months Residence in that Country, Vol. 1.
Mss Eur F697/2/2 : Journal of a Voyage to India and Two Months Residence in that Country, Volume 2
Mss Eur F697/2/3 : Diary of life in Noacally [Noakhali], India
Mss Eur F697/2/4 : Diary of a visit to Sylhet
Mss Eur F697/2/5 : Regimental Diary
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Mss Eur F697/2 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003252366[0002]/036-003256599
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F697
- Record Type (Level):
- Series
- Extent:
- 5 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1817
- End Date:
- 1846
- Date Range:
- 1817-1846
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Raban, Lydia King, nee Baker, 1821-1862