Light, Francis (The Light Letters)
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Light, Francis (The Light Letters)
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Creator |
Light | Francis | 1740-1794 | Superintendent of Penang
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Armed forces
Colonial conflicts Colonial countries Colonization Diplomacy Drugs Enterprises Exports/imports Foreign relations International relations International trade Maritime transport Military equipment Military organizations Narcotic drugs Naval personnel Organizations Pharmacology Political systems Slavery Social structure State security Trade Trade (practice) Transport Water transport Weapons Equipment |
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Description |
Papers, 1780s-1790s, largely of Captain Francis Light, including several hundred Malay letters, primarily letters received by Light and his business partner, Captain James Scott, from rulers and dignitaries of the Malay Sultanates. The letters cover the history of relations, negotiations and conflicts between Light, the rulers of Kedah and the Governor General in Bengal leading up to and including the settlement of Penang in 1786 and the armed conflict of 1791. There are also letters dealing with business affairs between Light and Malay nobles such as the purchase, shipment and sale of commodities, ammunition, slaves and opium, and the maintenance of good political and economic neighbourly relations; letters from the Sultanate of Selangor; letters from royal merchants at the Malay courts; and letters concerning trade from various rulers and nobles in the Peninsula and Sumatra, especially from Aceh, Asahan and other North-Sumatran states. In addition, the collection contains several dozen letters and documents from the same period relating to Bencoolen (Benkulen) and the West Sumatran Presidency, which are unrelated to Light. |
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School of Oriental and African Studies
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Date |
2007-03-09
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text
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text/html
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Identifier |
http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=143&inst_id=19
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Rights |
Unrestricted. No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance. |
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