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Add MS 88900/1/3
- Record Id:
- 040-000000022
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000000007
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000128.0x000003
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88900/1/3
- Title:
- Ceylon
- Scope & Content:
-
Includes comments by North on the researches made by Joseph de Jonville into the religion and customs of the Cingalese, with reference to Greek philosophy and place-name etymology, and reports by North apparently explaining his government's expenditure.
- Anthony Bertolacci
- William Boyd
- Sylvester Douglas
- Lord Glenbervie
- Messrs Drummond
- Henry Dundas
- Lord Elgin (7th Earl of Elgin)
- William Hunter
- Pierre de Mervé de Jonville
- William Orr
- William and Thomas Raikes & Co
- Marquis Wellesley
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000000007
036-000000008
037-000000010
040-000000022 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88900 : Guilford Papers
Add MS 88900/1 : Papers of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford
Add MS 88900/1/1-9 : Ceylon
Add MS 88900/1/3 : Ceylon - Hierarchy:
- 032-000000007[0001]/036-000000008[0001]/037-000000010[0003]/040-000000022
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88900
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1804
- Date Range:
- 1800-1804
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 395 x 255mm.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bertolacci, Anthony, civil servant, 1776-1833
Boyd, William, secretary and agent, fl 1778-1833
Bruce, Thomas, 7th Earl of Elgin, 1766-1841
Charles Drummond and Co, bankers, of Charing Cross, c 1712
Douglas, Frederick Sylvester North, actuary, writer and son of Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie, 1791-1819
Douglas, Sylvester, 1st Baron Glenbervie, lawyer, politician and diarist, 1743-1823
Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville, lawyer, politician and statesman, 1742-1811
Hunter, William, Secretary to the Society for Asiatic Researches, fl 1778-1802
Jonville, Pierre de Mervé de, fl 1796-1798
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770
Wellesley, Richard Colley, 2nd Earl of Mornington, Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, 1760-1842
William and Thomas Raikes & Co, merchants, c 1795-c 1800