Catalogue description Packet No 23: Papers relating to British India. Letters to Earl Cornwallis from William...

Packet No 23: Papers relating to British India. Letters to Earl Cornwallis from William Armstrong, Wm. K. Amherst, Claude Benezet, John Bebb, W. A. Brooke, Capt. John Buchanan, Reuben Burrow, Lieut.-Col. Thos. Call, Sir Archibald Campbell, Niel Campbell, Stephen Cassan, Jeremiah Church, John Champain, Le Chr. Debraux, George Forster, Capt. Richard French, Hon. L. Gordon, Ensign William Graham, James Grant, Major J. Grattan, Sir Sam. Hannay, Lieut.-Col. Jas. Hartley, Warren Hastings, A. Heselrige, Edward Otto Ives (Resident at the Vizier's court), Lieut.-Col. G. Johnstone, J. Hutchinson, Col. Knudson, Captain A. Kyd, D. R. Leckie, Robert Ledlie, John Lloyd, Thomas Lyon, Charles Warre Malet (Resident at Poona), D. H. Macdowell, E. C. Meyer, Laurence Mercer, James Meyrick, Captain Edmund Pitts Middleton, J. Neave (Head Assistant at Benares), John Pagan, William Palmer (Resident with Mahajee Scindia), R. Plowden, Rob. Percival Pott, Henry Pyne, Lieut. John Reade, Lieut. J. N. Rind, John O'Reilly, Peter Speke, John Stonhouse, Lord Sydney, Lieut. Samuel Turner, Robert Walpole (dated from Lisbon, introducing Mr. Willoughby Hair), Colonel White, J. Willes, Alexander Wright, Sir Geo. Yonge. Amongst the private letters of this packet are two characteristic notes by Warren Hastings, introducing Mr. Julius Imhoff and Mr. Peter Touchet to Lord Cornwallis; and a letter from Lord Cornwallis's Suffolk steward, Mr. John Hutchinson of Brome, which gives the governor-general a large amount of local gossip. Of Mr. Julius Imhoff, Warren Hastings says, 'He is very nearly related to me, and I have his interest very much at heart; and from what I yet know of his disposition I am persuaded that he will not discredit either my regard for him, or any notice that your Lordship may be pleased to show him.'