Catalogue description Packet No 13: Papers relating to British India. Letters to Earl Cornwallis from Robert...

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Details of PRO 30/11/13
Reference: PRO 30/11/13
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Packet No 13: Papers relating to British India. Letters to Earl Cornwallis from Robert Adair, E. Addison, Lieut. James Anderson, Capt. Anstruther, Sir Joseph Banks, Nathaniel Bateman, R. Bathurst, Sir Archibald Campbell, K.B., Jeremiah Church, W. Farquharson, Charles Fitzgerald, Lieut. W. Fleming, George Forster, Capt. Richard French, G. Gardner, St. Leger Gillman, James Grant (Resident at Benares), Lt.-Colonel Gabriel Harper, Patrick Heatley, R. Johnson, Captain John Kennaway, Capt. William Kirkpatrich (Resident with Mahajee Scindia), Rev. William Lewis, Hon. Robert Lindsay, Charles Warre Malet (Resident at Poona), D. H. Macdowell (Collector at Rungpore), Sir J. Macpherson, Lieut. Manson, Mr. Thomas Parkinson, John Peach, R. Plowden, George Smith, John Sumner, Peter Speke, General Sloper, John Stables, Hon. Charles Stuart, James Uhthoff (Assistant at Poona), Captain Thomas Welsh, Colonel White, J. Willes (Resident at Furruckabad), Captain Worship, Sir George Yonge, Secretary at War.--The more noteworthy writings of the packet are, (1.) The letter by Jeremiah Church on the scandals attending domestic slavery in Calcutta; (2.) The letter by Sir Joseph Banks to Sir George Yonge, respecting a project for establishing a correspondence between the Botanical Garden at Calcutta and His Majesty's Botanical Garden at St. Vincent, with an appended catalogue of the various plants in the last named garden; (3.) The letter (24 closely written folio pages), by J. Willes, being a memoir of the government of Furruckabad 'from the first establishment of the Government of the Patans of this district till the present time.'

Date: 1787 Jan
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Not Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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