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East India Company Letter Books

Catalogue reference: IOR/E/3/84-111

What’s it about?

This record is about the East India Company Letter Books dating from 1626-1753.

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Reference

IOR/E/3/84-111

Title

East India Company Letter Books

Date

1626-1753

Description

The Letter Books consist of copies of letters written by the East India Company to its trading posts in the East (India, China, Persia, Mocha, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Siam, West Africa, St Helena) and to its agents in Europe and the Levant, with occasional copies of Home Correspondence. The books begin in April 1626 but few letters survive before 1 April 1653, from which date they are more or less complete.

Related material

Pre-1626 letters can be found in the Miscellaneous Court Book [IOR:B/2] published in full transcript: Sir George Birdwood & William Foster, eds., 'The register of letters etc of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies

Held by
British Library: Asian and African Studies
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Public Record(s)

Language

English

Physical description

28 volumes

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Publication note(s)
William Foster, ed., The English Factories in India, 9 volumes for 1618-1654 (Oxford, 1906-15); Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, ed., A calendar of the Court Minutes etc of the East India Company, with introductions and notes by William Foster and William Thomas
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/7f37c42e-8343-411f-a52b-43f0f4d91591/

Series information

IOR/E/3

Correspondence with the East

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East India Company General Correspondence.

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Correspondence with the East

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East India Company Letter Books