Letters: to Henry Dundas, 1798-1800.

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Letters: to Henry Dundas, 1798-1800.

ALS (4 p.) advising that he had sent a table made of coromandel wood and that he could send a supply of this wood from Ceylon (16 April 1798) and ALS on the commercial development of Ceylon and its military defense, enclosing estimated expenses of European vs. native troops (17 September 1800).

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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