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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: Great Britain
Reference MS JM/B1/8
Covering Dates 1829–1873
Extent and Medium 171 letters
Content and context

Letters from places in Great Britain (excluding London). The correspondents include Dr Alexander Anderson; George Armstrong; Bank of Scotland; Francis Bulkeley Bulkeley-Johnson (also Francis Bulkeley Johnson, afterwards Bulkeley-Johnson); John Burd (Captain of the 'Norden' and 'Syden'); Canton Regatta Club; Adam Howden Crawford; Donald Currie (brother of John Currie of Hong Kong); John Currie (of Jardine, Matheson & Co.); John Currie Senr (father of John Currie of Hong Kong); Helena Dallas; Duncan George Davidson (Captain of H.M.S. 'Hornet'); John Francis Davis; George & R. Dewhurst; John Durant (attorney at Poole); Thomas & William Earle & Co.; James Ewing & Co.; William Fraser; Alexander Thomas Gordon; George Grant (of Liverpool); W.F. Gray; Thomas Holroyd; Robert Horn (of the Bank of Scotland, Inverness); Robert Alexander Houstoun; Mary Grant Hughes (Mary Grant Macpherson; sister of A.W. Macpherson); Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 1st Baronet; Andrew Jardine; David Jardine (partner, Jardine, Matheson & Co.); Joseph Jardine; Sir Robert Jardine, 1st Baronet; William Jardine; Francis Jauncey (of the 'Austen' and 'Governor Findlay'); W.A. Jeffray; R.C. Jenkins & Co.; George Johnston; William Keswick; Hugh Hamilton Lindsay; Lloyd, Matheson & Co.; John Richard Lumsden (Lieutenant, 63rd N.I.); Dr Mathew Lumsden; Robert Lumsden; Charles Lyall; Lyall, Matheson & Co.; Emily Macdonald (aunt of A.W. Macpherson); Donald Macdougall (of Inverness); Lewis McIver; John Mackenzie (Agent, Bank of Scotland, Inverness); Louisa Maclean (Louisa Macpherson; sister of A.W. Macpherson); Malcolm Anderson Macleod (junior partner, Jardine, Matheson & Co.); George McAlister (Executor in China of W.W. McIver); Captain Henry McMinnies; Alexander Wentworth Macpherson; Duncan Macpherson (surgeon in Madras Army); Duncan Macpherson (also McPherson; General, India Army); Ronald Macpherson; Williamina Macpherson (widow of R.W. Macpherson and sister-in-law of A.W. Macpherson); Hollingworth Magniac; [ ] Matheson; Alexander Matheson; Donald Matheson; Hugh Matheson; Hugh Mackay Matheson; (Nicholas) James Sutherland Matheson (also 'Santiago Thomasen', pseudonym); Thomas Matheson (merchant of Liverpool and nephew of Sir James Matheson); Matheson & Scott; Henry Melling; Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston; Floriano Antonio Rangel (of Jardine, Matheson & Co.); Rathbone Brothers & Co.; Alexander Robertson; Royal Mersey Yacht Club; Rustomjee Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy; John Scott (of Matheson & Scott and Scott, Meldrum & Co.); Sheppard & Co.; James Adam Smith; John Abel Smith (partner, Magniac, Smiths & Co.); John Stewart; William Stewart (partner, Jardine, Matheson & Co.); Sykes Schwabe & Co.; Charles Edward Trevelyan; James Whittall; and Thomas Blenkinsop White (Captain of the 'Lanrick' and 'Fiery Cross'); and Wilson & McIver (of Liverpool).

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
Great Britain
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
Johnson, Francis Bulkeley Bulkeley - (1828-1887) merchant
Magniac, Hollingworth (1786-1867) merchant
Whittall, James (1827-1893) merchant
Jardine, Joseph (1822-1861) merchant
Jardine, David (1818-1856) merchant
Jardine, Sir Robert (1825-1905) 1st Baronet, merchant and politician
Houstoun, Robert Alexander (1838-1879) merchant
Jardine, Andrew (1812-1881) merchant
Stewart, William (d 1846) merchant
Temple, Henry John (1784-1865) 3rd Viscount Palmerston, prime minister
Anderson, Alexander (d 1857) doctor
Currie, John (c 1817-1851) merchant
Davis, Sir John Francis (1795-1890) 1st Baronet, Governor of Hong Kong
Hughes, Mary Grant (1822-1851)
Jejeebhoy, Sir Jamsetjee (1783-1859) 1st Baronet, merchant
Lindsay, Hugh Hamilton (1802-1881) MP
Maclean, Louisa (b 1822)
Macpherson, Alexander Wentworth (b 1824)
Macpherson, Duncan (1812-1867) military surgeon
Macpherson, Duncan (1778-1850) General
Macpherson, Ronald (1817-1869) Colonel
Matheson, Hugh (1805-1875) merchant
Rangel, Floriano Antonio (d 1873) bookkeeper
Jejeebhoy, Rustomjee Jamsetjee (1824-1872)
Trevelyan, Sir Charles Edward (1807-1886) Knight, colonial administrator
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