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Manuscripts
This collection contains material relating to George Macartney's failed effort to establish a British embassy in Peking (modern day Beijing), China from 1792 to 1794. This includes correspondence with the Governor-General of the Philippines about a secret mission to Manila and correspondence with the East India Company and members of the embassy about intelligence, tactics, and conditions in China. One of the letters from the East India Company reports that Cai Shiwen, also known as Munqua and head of the Cohong, is under orders to follow Macartney's embassy and to act as their interpreter at court. The collection also contains a variety of materials documenting the preparations for the embassy, predicted and actual expenses, salaries, personnel, and gifts of the embassy before, during, and after the expedition. Box 2 contains an indenture between the East India Company and John Barrow, comptroller of the embassy, which documents his expected pay and limits his interactions with the Chinese. Barrow cannot lend or borrow money or have any transactions with the Chinese other than purchasing or procuring the necessary items for his maintenance and travel. It also contains a January 6, 1793, letter from Eyles Irwin, part of the East India Company's Secret and Superintending Committee at Canton, to Macartney describing conditions in China, tactics for the embassy, and news from India. Both items are restricted due to the fragility of the materials.
mssMacartney
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Manuscripts
This collection contains material relating to George Macartney's failed effort to establish a British embassy in Peking (modern day Beijing), China from 1792 to 1794. This includes correspondence with the Governor-General of the Philippines about a secret mission to Manila and correspondence with the East India Company and members of the embassy about intelligence, tactics, and conditions in China. One of the letters from the East India Company reports that Cai Shiwen, also known as Munqua and head of the Cohong, is under orders to follow Macartney's embassy and to act as their interpreter at court. The collection also contains a variety of materials documenting the preparations for the embassy, predicted and actual expenses, salaries, personnel, and gifts of the embassy before, during, and after the expedition. Box 2 contains an indenture between the East India Company and John Barrow, comptroller of the embassy, which documents his expected pay and limits his interactions with the Chinese. Barrow cannot lend or borrow money or have any transactions with the Chinese other than purchasing or procuring the necessary items for his maintenance and travel. It also contains a January 6, 1793, letter from Eyles Irwin, part of the East India Company's Secret and Superintending Committee at Canton, to Macartney describing conditions in China, tactics for the embassy, and news from India. Both items are restricted due to the fragility of the materials.
mssMacartney
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Manuscripts
This collection contains material relating to George Macartney's failed effort to establish a British embassy in Peking (modern day Beijing), China from 1792 to 1794. This includes correspondence with the Governor-General of the Philippines about a secret mission to Manila and correspondence with the East India Company and members of the embassy about intelligence, tactics, and conditions in China. One of the letters from the East India Company reports that Cai Shiwen, also known as Munqua and head of the Cohong, is under orders to follow Macartney's embassy and to act as their interpreter at court. The collection also contains a variety of materials documenting the preparations for the embassy, predicted and actual expenses, salaries, personnel, and gifts of the embassy before, during, and after the expedition. Box 2 contains an indenture between the East India Company and John Barrow, comptroller of the embassy, which documents his expected pay and limits his interactions with the Chinese. Barrow cannot lend or borrow money or have any transactions with the Chinese other than purchasing or procuring the necessary items for his maintenance and travel. It also contains a January 6, 1793, letter from Eyles Irwin, part of the East India Company's Secret and Superintending Committee at Canton, to Macartney describing conditions in China, tactics for the embassy, and news from India. Both items are restricted due to the fragility of the materials.
mssMacartney
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Copies of letters, treatises, and accounts of legal proceedings, chiefly in England, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, including accounts of the rebellion, trial, and execution of the Earl of Essex, a copy of the "Liber Intrationem [in Camera Stellata tempore Regis Henr. Septimi]", other proceedings in Star Chamber, Sir Henry Wotton on George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, etc.
mssHM 41952
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Copies of treatises and records concerning English currency, the wool trade, foreign exchange, the Royal Mint, etc.
mssHM 38340
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Contains a Historical Dialogue in Scripture, as well as addresses, ballads, epigrams, epitaphs, extracts, poems and verses. The volume also includes works by or about Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and Sir Robert Walpole, among others. There is a Table of Contents (possibly incomplete) and penciled autograph notes on the flyleaf. Note: page numbering is not consistent.
mssHM 82623