Letters and manuscripts, 1795 October 24-1798 November 8.

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Letters and manuscripts, 1795 October 24-1798 November 8.

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One ALS (7 p.) to Lord Hobart, statesman and Governor of Madras, marked private and relating to military tactics to be used in capturing Colombo from the Dutch; a collection of 5 letters and mss. (19 p.) relating to captured property in Ceylon, addressed to Henry Dundas; "Average estimate of the annual charges attending the possession of Ceylon under the Dutch Government and of the annual amount of Revenue produced by that Island." (signed P.A. Agnew and transmitted to Henry by Dundas by the Chairman of the East India House, 3 Nov. 1798).

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Agnew, P. A. (Patrick A.)

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Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811

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