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Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: A neat, or at least legible, copy or transcript of any kind of text, the copy being made by the author of the original, or by a scribe, as an acceptable version of the text to be read by others. Source: Beal (Peter). 'Dictionary of English manuscript terminology 1450-2000.' (Oxford, 2008.)

Found in 107 Collections and/or Records:

Volume containing a wide range of important and revealing memoranda of Alexander Walker, chiefly concerned with Ceylon and with the East India Company's role in India., ?4th quarter of 18th century-?1st quarter of 19th century.

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Identifier: MS.13796
Scope and Contents The volume seems to have been gathered together by Alexander Walker from his earlier writings and bound together circa 1826. If any single volume reflects Walker's eclectic mind it is this.It includes a fair copy of an account, written by Lieutenant Tomkins Knox of the Bombay Army, of his visit to Kandy with the mission of Robert Andrews, a Madras civil servant, in 1796 (page 9).There is also a memoir on the administration of Ceylon written by Hugh Cleghorn, circa...
Dates: ?4th quarter of 18th century-?1st quarter of 19th century.

Volume entitled 'Farrago Libelli' by Alexander Walker, consisting of three chapters based on Walker's first-hand experience of India., 1781-1784.

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Identifier: MS.13775
Scope and Contents

The chapters are formed by a journal of Alexander Walker's voyage from Europe to India as a young officer in 1781, a journal of the Malabar expedition under Brigadier-General Mathews against Hyder Ali in 1782-1783, and a journal of the siege of Mangalore in 1783-1784. This fair copy seems to have been made circa 1821.

Dates: 1781-1784.