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Letters from Sir John Shore Bart., Governor-General of Bengal, to The Right Hon[ora]ble Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India : manuscript, 1793-1798.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 231
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Teignmouth, John Shore, Baron, 1751-1834.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
- India.
- History.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Documents (object genre)
- Codices.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Manuscripts, English.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gift of Holden Furber, 1975.
- Physical Description:
- 1 v. (385 leaves) : paper ; 34 cm
- Place of Publication:
- 1793-1798.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Bound collection of private letters from John Shore Teignmouth, Governor General of India, to Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, dated 10 January 1793 to 17 October 1798.
- Also includes an Appendix consisting of copies made by Dundas of documents sent to him by Teignmouth, along with a few original documents and letters.
- Notes:
- Title taken from Dundas' manuscript title page (recto of first folio before p. 1).
- Most of the letters were written from Bengal.
- Many of the letters are written on paper that is smaller in dimensions than the volume itself. A few items are larger, and have been folded to fit.
- Pagination and foliation: [4] ff.; pp. 1-307, [i]; [227] ff. The letters have been paginated by Dundas, after being arranged and bound into the volume. The appendix is unnumbered.
- Binding: contemporary calf, with leather label on spine with the words: Governor General Sir John Shore, Jan. 1793 to Oct. 1798.
- The entire volume is very fragile. The cover is crumbling, and much of the paper is brittle and cracked. The spine is coming off.
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 : Supplement B. The Library Chronicle 45 (1981), p. 12 (Ms. English 39).
- Publications about:
- This correspondence was edited and published in: Furber, Holden, ed. The private record of an Indian Governor-Generalship (Cambridge, Mass., 1933).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 231.
- OCLC:
- 155903407
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is subject to staff review.
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