| 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 |
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| 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
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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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