Letters of Major James Rennell.

(1) pp. i-v, Correspondence between Messrs. Hacker and Michelmore and Mr. S. C. Hill respecting the copying by the India Office of the letters mentioned below 11th Jan. to 29th March 1911; p. vii, List of the Letters; pp. 1-54, Abstract of the letters. (2) Copies of letters from Major James Rennell in the possession of Messrs. Hacker and Michelmore (Solicitors at Chudleigh). pp. 55-68, 70-90, 100-2, 107-54, 156-69, 172-201, 203-324, to the Rev. Gilbert Burrington 2nd July 1758 to 18th Jan. 1785, Lord Howe's expedition against St. Malo in 1758, Service in the Fleet under Capt. Haldane, Cutting out expedition at Pondicherry in 1760, Survey work on the Madras Coast (It was Rennell who gave its present name to Palk's Strait), Scurvy, Descriptions of Madras, Bombay and Calcutta, Survey of Bengal, Fights with the Fakirs or Saniyasis (see Bengal Select Committee Proceedings, 1773), Character of Clive, Virtues of the Sepoys, Marriage with Miss Thackeray, Dangers of Inoculation; p. 69, to his Mother (Mrs. Ann Elliott) 31st Dec. 1759; pp. 91-2, 103-6, to Miss Burrington 20th April 1761; pp. 93-9 to -- 31st Jan. 1761; p. 155, to Thomas Burrington 20th Aug. 1766; pp. 170-1, to Mrs. Burrington 10th March 1767. (3) p. 202, Receipt from Messrs. Walpole, Clark and Bourne to the Rev. G. Burrington.

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