Title
Letter from Thomas Stamford Raffles to the Revd Thomas Raffles, 10 February 1821
Year/Period
10 Feb 1821
Region
Bencoolen (Bengkulu, Sumatra)
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: Refer to parts
Accession No.
2019-00194
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Tang Holdings Pte Ltd
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles established a British East India Company trading factory in Singapore in 1819. This letter is part of a collection of letters he wrote to his cousin, the Revd Thomas Raffles, an influential religious leader in Liverpool to whom Raffles was close and with whom he corresponded frequently. In this letter from Bencoolen, Raffles comments on John Crawfurd’s History of the Indian Archipelago and his own ongoing work on natural history collecting.
