Jardine Matheson Archive

The correspondents include the following names:

Rutherford Alcock; John Anderson (of London); Peter Anderson; William Henry Anderson; George A. Archer; J.H. Astell.

Samuel Ball; James Bannerman (of the East India Co.); Bartolomeu Barretto; Antonio Lourenço Barretto & Co.; William Baynes; Thomas Beale; Thomas Chay Beale; Beale & Co.; Robert Berry; Francis B. Birley; Birley & Co.; John Blain; George Blight; W.O. Bokee; Bomnajee Hormasjee (Bomanjee Hormarjee); William Bosanquet (supracargo); H.F. Bourne; William Sprott Boyd (also Thomas Podé, pseudonym); Elijah Coleman Bridgman; Isaac M. Bull; William G. Bull (of H.C.S. 'David Scott'); Charles F. Burgett; Abraham Joseph Burley (or J. Burley; Captain of the 'John', 'Zenobia' and 'Falcon'); Byramjee Cooverjee Bhabha.

Callianjee Canjee; A.J. Campbell; British Chamber of Commerce, Canton; British Mercantile Community at Canton, 1859; British subjects at Canton, 1847; Commissioner of Customs, Canton; Comptroller of Customs, Canton; Superintendent of Customs, Canton; Carnegy & Co.; R.H. Chambers (of Lyall, Still & Co.); China Overland Trade Report; Choo (Chief Magistrate of the district of Nan-hai); Frederick W. Coare; Thomas Richardson Colledge; Charles Spencer Compton; Spencer Compton; Joseph Cotton Jnr (2nd member of Select Committee, East India Co.); Thomas Coupar (Captain of the 'Thomas Fielden'); Everard L.H. Crace; John Currie (of Jardine, Matheson & Co.); John Cushing Perkins.

Dadabhoy & Maneckjee Pestonjee (also D. & M. Pestonjee and Dadabhoy & Moneckjee Pestonjee); W.W. Dale; William Dallas (purser of the 'Duke of York'); Richard P. Dana; James Frederick Nugent Daniell (of the East India Company); W.S. Davidson & Co.; John Francis Davis; Warren Delano Jnr (U.S. Vice Consul at Canton); John Dent; Thomas Dent; Wilkinson Dent; Dent & Co.; Dent, Thomas & Co.; G. Dickson (at Honam).

Secretary of Select Committee of the East India Company; East India Trade Association, London; Robert Edwards; Adam Wallis Elmslie; Edward Elmslie; Thomas Everard.

Fairlie, Bonham & Co.; William E. Farrer; Edward Fischer (agent of Jardine Matheson, Yokohama and Osaka); Maximilian Fischer; George V.W. Fisher; Jose A. da Fonseca; Framjee Pestonjee; William Fraser.

Patrick Gifford; Gifford & Co.; George B. Glover (Commissioner of Maritime Customs, Canton); John Henry Gray; W.F. Gray; John N. Alsop Griswold; Charles Gutzlaff (Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff).

J.B. Hallam; W.H. Hamilton; His Excellency Hang, Comptroller of Maritime Customs, Canton; Henry H. Harker; W.M. Harper; J.A. Haste; William Hastings (of Jardine, Matheson & Co.); Augustine Heard & Co.; John Hine (Captain of the 'Earl of Balcarres'); Holliday, Wise & Co.; Hong Merchants (Cohong); Hop Kee; George Horback; Robert Alexander Houstoun; Howqua; Howqua Senior.

Ilbery & Co.; Ilbery, Fearon & Co.; James Innes.

[ ] Jardine; David Jardine (partner, Jardine, Matheson & Co.); Joseph Jardine; Sir Robert Jardine, 1st Baronet; William Jardine; G. Jellicoe (Captain of the 'Duke de Beja'); Stephen P. Johannes.

William Keswick; E.M. King (U.S. Consul, Canton).

John Richardson Latimer; Peter George Laurie (of Jardine, Matheson & Co.); William Leslie; Lindsay & Co.; John Livingstone; John Christopher Lochner (Captain of H.C.S. 'Lady Melville'); George Lungley (of the 'Lady Hayes'); Charles Lyall; George Lyall; Lyall, Matheson & Co.

Francis Coleman Macgregor (of the British Consulate); Thomas W.L. MacKean; D.W. McKenzie & Co.; Malcolm Anderson Macleod (junior partner, Jardine, Matheson & Co.); Alexander Wentworth Macpherson; Charles Magniac (brother of Hollingworth and Daniel); Daniel Snaith Magniac; Herbert St Leger Magniac; Hollingworth Magniac; F. Mansbach (Secretary to Danish Government at Serampore); Henry Davies Margesson; Margesson & Co.; Richard Markwick; [ ] Matheson; Alexander Matheson; Donald Matheson; (Nicholas) James Sutherland Matheson (also 'Santiago Thomasen', pseudonym); John A.T. Meadows; Theophilus John Metcalfe; John Millar; Charles Millett (of the East India Co.); James Molony (of the Select Committee, East India Company); Molony & Roberts; Moul & Co.; John T. Mounsey.

Chief Magistrate of Nan-nai; William Napier; Thomas George Newton (tea inspector for Jardine, Matheson & Co.); Matthew Noall (Captain of the 'Saint Ja'); Gideon Nye; Nye, Parkin & Co.

Thomas Scruton Odell (tea inspector for Jardine, Matheson & Co.); A.P. Olding (Agent, P. & O.); David Washington Cincinnatus Olyphant; Olyphant & Co.; Charles W. Orne (of Augustine Heard & Co.); Eugenio de Otadui.

Parkyns & Co. (?); Francis Parry; William Paterson (partner, Jardine, Matheson & Co.); Thomas Charles Pattle; Payva, Viuva & Filhos; Dr Alexander Pearson; Alexander Perceval; Oliver H. Perry (United States Consul); Edward Pettit; Phenix Insurance Office; F. Piñeyro; William Henry Chicheley Plowden (Secretary, Select Committee, East India Co.); James Purdon & Co.; John Purvis.

S. Rawson; John Rees (Captain of the 'Dansborg', 'Kronberg', 'Colonel Young', 'Austin' and 'Lady Hayes'); E. Reimers; Reiss & Co.; Remington & Co.; John Rickett (Captain of the 'Austin'; Secretary of the Hong Kong Club; and surveyor, Canton Insurance Office); James Thomas Robarts; John Robertson (Captain of the 'Stornaway' and 'Cairngorm'); A.A. de Rocha (purser of the 'Canton' and 'Lily'); Rothschild & Sons; H. Vernon Russell (Captain of S.S. 'Corea' and S.S. 'Appin'); Russell & Co.; Russell & Sturgis); Henry Rutter; Charles Ryder.

Saboodeen Guttay; Sadoodeen Shaik Ally Coor; Anthony Scanlan (Captain of the 'Hellas'); Adam Scott; M.J. Senn van Basel (Acting Netherlands Consul); Senn van Basel toe Laer & Co.; Secretary to Danish Government at Serampore; Alexander Shank (T. Beale & Co., China); John Shaw (barrister; eldest son of Thomas Shaw, late of Bengal); John Shillaber; Theodore Shillaber; A. da Silveira; Henry Skinner (of Macao and Honolulu); Small Colquhoun & Co.; C.T. Smith; George Mackrill Smith; John Abel Smith (partner, Magniac, Smiths & Co.); Smith, Kennedy & Co.; Sorabjee Cooverjee; L. de Souza; Joseph Stanton (Captain of H.C.S. 'General Harris'); Charles Thomas van Straubenzee; Robert Shaw Sturgis; Russell Sturgis (of Russell, Sturgis & Co. and Baring Bros & Co.); Captain Thomas Sullivan.

William Tarrant; Thomas & Mercer; Charles Thomas; Thomas Thomas; Edward Townend; Danish Government at Tranquebar; Richard Turner & Co. (of Canton).

George Urmson; Martha Urmson; James Brabazon Urmston.

Seraphin Van Caneghem; A. Viegas.

William Wallace (of Gledstones & Co.; in Canton 1838); Watts & Co.; Wetmore & Co.; Wetmore, Williams & Co.; Whiteman & Co.; [ ] Whittall; Edward Whittall; James Whittall; Benjamin Chew Wilcocks; Franklin Delano Williams (Agent, Wetmore & Co.); John Williams; J.A. Wilson (of S.S. 'Spark'); Charles Alexander Winchester; Henry Wright (partner, Jardine, Matheson & Co.).

The original letters are not available to readers, but microfilm copies may be ordered in the Manuscripts Reading Room - Reels 28 (letters P1-199), 29 (P200-648), 30 (P649-1155), 282 (P1156-1518), 283 (P1519-1761), 284 (P1762-2072), 285 (P2073-2308) and 286 (2309-2492).