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Packet No 20: Papers relating to British India. Letters to Earl Cornwallis from John...
Catalogue reference: PRO 30/11/20
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This record is about the Packet No 20: Papers relating to British India. Letters to Earl Cornwallis from John... dating from 1787 Oct in the series Charles Cornwallis: Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- PRO 30/11/20
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- 1787 Oct
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Packet No 20: Papers relating to British India. Letters to Earl Cornwallis from John Bebb, Captain Thomas Blair, Thomas Calvert, Captain Cameron, Sir Archibald Campbell, Mr. Chauvet, Captain James King Combe, Lieut. Crockett, D. Cuming, Jonathan Duncan (Resident at Benares), Hon. Lockhart Gordon, Charles Grant, John Hall, Colonel Gabriel Harper, Robert Ireland, Edward Otto Ives (Resident at the Vizier's Court at Lucnow), Francis Johnson, Lieut.-Col. Robert Kyd, Lieut. Robert Loy, Charles Warre Malet (Resident at Poona), Laurence Mercer, James Meyrick, A. Molony, F. Mure, J. Neave (Assistant at Benares), William Palmer (Resident with Mahajee Scindia), S. Penny, Samuel Skardon, Hon. Charles Stuart, Sec. John White, Col. White, John Willes, J. Wombwell (Assistant at Lucknow), Sir George Yonge (Secretary at War). Also letters from Lord Cornwallis to E. O. Ives (copies).
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PRO 30/11
Charles Cornwallis: Papers
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