| Manuscripts/MS JM/B1 contains: |
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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 |
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| 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
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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 |
| 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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