Letter from Thomas Stamford Raffles to the Revd Thomas Raffles, 6 June 1825, with accompanying prospectus of the Zoological Society of London

Title
Letter from Thomas Stamford Raffles to the Revd Thomas Raffles, 6 June 1825, with accompanying prospectus of the Zoological Society of London
Year/Period
20 May 1825
Region
London
Dimension
Object size: Refer to parts
Accession No.
2019-00207
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 it, Raffles discusses his work on the Zoological Society of London, and attaches a copy of the first printed prospectus of the Society dated May 20 1825.