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Packet No 25: Papers relating to British India. Letters to Earl Cornwallis from Robert...
Catalogue reference: PRO 30/11/25
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Packet No 25: Papers relating to British India. Letters to Earl Cornwallis from Robert Adair, J. Addison, Capt. Nathaniel Alexander, Lieut. W. Baker, Claude Benezet, R. Birch, Ensign Edward Brooke, Sir Archibald Campbell, Capt. John Cudmore, D. Cumming, Samuel Daniel, Le Chr. Debraux, J. F. Deluc, Jonathan Duncan (Resident at Benares), George Forster, Assistant-General John Grattan, Lieut. Greene, John Hall, Robert Holme, Lieut. John Hughes, Edward Otto Ives (Resident with the Vizier's court), Capt. John Kennaway, Thomas William Kerr, Matthew Leslie, H. Lodge, Charles Warre Malet (Resident at Poona), James Meyrick, Hon. Capt. Monson, Lt.-Col. John Mordaunt, William Palmer (Resident with Mahajee Scindia), Lieut. John Robertson, Claud Russell, Peter Touchet, Wm. Whalen, Lieut. Charles White, Colonel White, W. Wodsworth, Sir Geo. Yonge. Also (1.) Account of imports and exports between Bombay and the Mahratta country; (2.) A very kind letter from Cornwallis to C. L. Lewis (an actor who had gone out to India without leave from the Company) regretting that he cannot give him leave to perform, and sending him 1,000 rupees from his own purse.
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Charles Cornwallis: Papers
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