Title
Contemporary clerical copy of a letter from Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles to the Directors of the East India Company
Year/Period
Oct 1812
Region
Batavia
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 31.4 x 20.1 cm
Accession No.
2019-00304
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. The original letter, of which this is a contemporary clerical copy, was written by Raffles in October 1812 when he was Lieutenant-Governor of Java. Addressed to the Directors of the East India Company in London, this letter mentions Raffles’ support for the botanical survey of Java conducted by Dr Thomas Horsfield, the botanist who he had commissioned to do this work.
![The History of Java, first edition [two volumes], Thomas Stamford Raffles, London, 1817](https://www.roots.gov.sg/api/media/6972aac8-d668-488a-88b7-56301f9f392a/00-cultural-connections.jpg)
