Transcripts of letters from India, 1600-1662

 
Component identifier:
Subseries I/3/1-86 (M550-M567)
Content Summary:

The title of this series of records is somewhat misleading: they are not confined to letters and they were written from Dutch settlements and factories throughout Asia, not just in India. In addition to letters, there are legal documents, treaties, contracts, reports of diplomatic missions and trade negotiations, historical summaries and accounts, daily registers of expeditions, journals of ships' captains, descriptions of towns, resolutions, lists of merchandise and prices, and instructions to naval officers and factors. A large number of the letters were written to the directors of the VOC in the Netherlands, many of them from the Governor-General and Council in Batavia. There is also a great deal of correspondence between the Governor-General and governors, directors, factors, admirals, captains and Dutch residents in the East Indies, India, Japan, Siam and elsewhere and also between the Governor-General and kings, sultans, rajahs and other rulers. There is some correspondence with agents of the English East India Company and Portuguese governors.

The original records were arranged in roughly chronological order, although some documents were misfiled. The transcribed documents were numbered by Danvers and bound in volumes. The English translations were given the same numbers and the volumes of translations were interfiled with the volumes of transcripts. For instance, the first volume containing the 1600-1608 transcripts was followed by the volume containing the 1600-1608 translations. However, the microfilming was done in two sequences, with all the volumes of transcripts filmed first (M550-M570), followed by all the volumes of translations (M571-M576).

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Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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