"Mainly in-letters in the office of one of the central BM officials in India"

Remains of a file in the style of C-5-4.7, covers lost, about 4.5 cm thick at the binding. Bound with paper from an English newspaper.....a large majority of the sheets pasted in are tissue-paper copies of correspondence, and the general condition is correspondingly unsatisfactory, both in terms of ink and legibility and damage to the margins of the paper on the outside of the file. Covers the years 1904-7, and seems to consist exclusively of letters originated in Basel, or the circulars sent out in India and based on those letters. Since so many of the letters are tissue-paper copies it seems likely that the file was generated in one of the upper offices of the BM hierarchy in India, and that the tissue-paper copies were kept of letters being sent on to subordinate offices or individual people or stations. NB during a cursory search one letter was found in English, typewritten, and originated in India, and addressed to Rev. Frohnmeyer, inviting him to a meeting to constitute a Central Court of Board of Arbitrators in Madras, dated 29th October 1904. Continuation of C-5-5.8d.

1904

1907

1904-1907

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