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Manuscripts/MS JM/B1 contains:
1 Private letters: Africa
2 Private letters: America
3 Private letters: Australasia
4 Private letters: Bombay
5 Private letters: Calcutta
6 Private letters: East Indies, Siam and Malaya
7 Private letters: Europe
8 Private letters: Great Britain
9 Private letters: India
10 Private letters: London
11 Private letters: Madras
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Jardine Matheson Archive

Title Private letters: East Indies, Siam and Malaya
Reference MS JM/B1/6
Covering Dates 1813–1882
Extent and Medium 188 letters
Content and context

The correspondents include James Anderson (of Strachan & Co.); Bartolomeu Antonio Barretto; Antonio Lourenço Barretto & Co.; B.A. Barretto & Co.; Batlle, Hermanos & Co.; A. Bauermeister (of Behre & Co.); Captain Dionisio Bordenave; William Sprott Boyd (also Thomas Podé, pseudonym); Francis Bulkeley Bulkeley-Johnson (also Francis Bulkeley Johnson, afterwards Bulkeley-Johnson); Carnegy & Co.; Thomas Church (Resident Councillor, Singapore); J.F. Crockett (Captain of the 'Hellespont' and 'Clan Alpine'); John Dent; George Basil Dixwell (of Augustine Heard & Co.); Francis Durrant (Royal Naval Captain, H.M.S. 'Cleopatra', and Rear-Admiral); F.P. Enriques; A. Evans; Fairlie, Bonham & Co.; Henry Gribble (of the 'Marquis Camden' and British Consul at Amoy); Charles Gutzlaff (Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff); William Hamley; Andrew Henderson (of the 'Forbes' and 'Water Witch'); [ ] Houston; David Jardine (partner, Jardine, Matheson & Co.); William Jardine; H.U. Jeffries; Thomas Jones; William Keswick; Victor Kresser (of Comptoir d'Escompte de Paris, Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, and Wahee, Smith & Co. of Saigon); Thomas Larkins (Captain of H.C.S. 'Marquis of Camden'); Joseph Lèques; Alexander Wentworth Macpherson; Christina Macpherson (wife of Ronald Macpherson); Ronald Macpherson; Hollingworth Magniac; Antonio Maria de Marcaida; [ ] Matheson; Alexander Matheson; Donald Matheson; (Nicholas) James Sutherland Matheson (also 'Santiago Thomasen', pseudonym); John Ambrose Mercer (purser on the 'Inglis'); Theophilus John Metcalfe; P. Myers; Eugenio de Otadui; Edward Campbell Rich Owen; Peele, Hubbell & Co.; Alexander Perceval; John Purvis; John Murray Purvis; Floriano Antonio Rangel (of Jardine, Matheson & Co.); Alexander Robertson; James Adam Smith; Sabina de Souza (also Sabina d'Machado and Sabina Zausa de Machado); William S. Stockley (Captain of the 'Neptune' and 'Lord William Bentinck'; partner, F. Mangles & Co., Perth); Strachan & Co.; Syde Aboo Bukka; James Tait (Spanish Vice-Consul, Amoy); Miss M.A. Thomas; Charles Thomas & Co.; T.S. Thomson; Mary Croft Turner (wife of Richard Turner); H.B. Warburton (Secretary to Rear Admiral Sir Edward Owen); George Frederick Weller (of Augustine Heard & Co.); [ ] Whittall; James Whittall; and Thomas Blenkinsop White (Captain of the 'Lanrick' and 'Fiery Cross').

Access and Use

The original letters are not available to readers, but microfilm copies may be ordered in the Manuscripts Reading Room - Reel 117.

Index Terms
East Indies
Malay Peninsula
Thailand
Jardine, William (1784-1843) physician and merchant
Matheson, Sir Nicholas James Sutherland (1796-1878) 1st Baronet, merchant and politician
Matheson, Sir Alexander (1805-1886) 1st Baronet, merchant and banker
Matheson, Donald (1819-1901) merchant
Keswick, William (1834-1912) merchant
Perceval, Alexander (1821-1866) merchant
Johnson, Francis Bulkeley Bulkeley - (1828-1887) merchant
Magniac, Hollingworth (1786-1867) merchant
Whittall, James (1827-1893) merchant
Jardine, David (1818-1856) merchant
Gützlaff, Karl Friedrich August (1803-1851) German missionary
Macpherson, Alexander Wentworth (b 1824)
Macpherson, Ronald (1817-1869) Colonel
Metcalfe, Sir Theophilus John (1783-1822) 2nd Baronet, Indian civil servant
Owen, Sir Edward Campbell Rich (1771-1849) Knight, Admiral
Rangel, Floriano Antonio (d 1873) bookkeeper
Hamley, William (1786-1866) Commander Royal Navy
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