India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Arc
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): 1770-71 Boughton’s duplicate letter book, bound in thick paper covers, containing transcriptions of mail to and from him and addressed to
(datelined at Nattore) or from Captain Kyd, Charles Purlling, Captain Fullerton, Charles Child, Nathaniel Middleton, Charles Bentley, Henry Cottrell, etc. mainly fine. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £800-1,000
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| 982 |
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): 1770s working manuscript maps (4, one showing degrees and scales) of Bengal showing the East India Company’s private trade monopolies and revenue
derived from it which Hastings and Francis fought for in the Supreme Council, notation indicate these were produced by Boughton. Photo.
(Image1)
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Est. £600-800
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| 983 |
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): Boughton’s manuscript notes and a few technical drawings in ink or pencil including language, written Persian, names of the days of the weeks,
local phrases, native astrology, a few with small tears or stains, fine insight into cultural education, etc. (Image1)
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Est. £100-120
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| 984 |
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Diary (1770-78), 282 pages compiled during his tenure as Chief of Dacca, bound in thick paper covers (toned and stained), the majority of the contents fine to very fine,
giving an important glimpse in the corrupt machinations of the East India Company during several years of upheaval in the history of the British in India but also cultural comments incl. music, language, scandals, observations of Bengal etc. incl. at
page 92 a Persian copy of a “purwannah” (written legal document) to the officers of Adawlut from Mahomed Reza Cawn, arrested by Hastings in 1772 and at pages 218-25 an eyewitness account of the June 1777 Calcutta Coup d’Etat constitutional crisis
between the Governor and General Clavering detailing unrecorded shadow state politics not found in official East India Company narratives with direct quotes from Philip Francis and Hastings and references to the deployment of troops at Fort William.
A remarkable item still in private hands and of institutional significance. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £25,000-30,000
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| 985 |
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): 1771 printed “CALENDAR/FOR/THE YEARS OF OUR LORD/MDCCLXXI/Calculated to the Meridian of/CALCUTTA./Printed at Madras”, endorsed “William Boughton”
on the title page, paper covers defective, internally mostly very fine. With specific annotations and observations through which he attempts to synchronise it with a native Indian calendar, he later converts this diary to a meteorological journal for
the following year. Contents confirm that Boughton was working in Nattore and which makes the Clavering and Fowke’s warning over the “Ranny of Bowanny” (Rani of Bahani) very real. Early colonial missionary printing and extremely rare thus. Photo (Image1)
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Est. £2,000-2,500
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| 986 |
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): 1771 (Nov. 2) two page letter (contents on four sides, no address panel or cover) datelined at Rangpore and signed by Charles Purling concerning
the illicit salt trade in Bengal alleging systemic corruption in the East India Company including using an agent (Ramnant Biswas) to extort a village headman by confining him in irons over a an apparent debt. The writer issued a state warrant to free
the man but his Government messengers were “cruelly bent, two of whom, I imagine will be cripples during their life”. Remarkable insight into commercial thuggery and perverse functions of the East India Company. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £1,200-1,500
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| 987 |
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): 1772 (Jan. 22) entire letter to Nattore (currently Bangladesh) no postal markings, few vertical file folds and wax seal remnant on reverse.
Contents written by Charles Dempetter and datelined at Calcutta, concerning the paranoia of private trade and with reference to Colonel Robert Kyd (1746-1793) who went on to found the Calcutta Botanical Garden in 1787, fine. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £250-300
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| 988 |
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): 1772 (Jan. 22) letter (two pages, double sided contents, no cover or address panel), datelined at Chugurah written by Mrs Golding to Boughton
concerning the difficulties of maintaining European high society in Bengal using a harpsichord as a metaphor and with reference to child orphans and sudden deaths. Important insight into pioneer colonialism in India. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £150-200
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| 989 |
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): 1772 (Feb. 21) letter (two pages, contents on four sides, no cover or address panel, central fold) to Boughton datelined at Mahomedpore and
written by Francis Gladwin (? - 1813?) later a founder of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and an early orientalist polymath with reference to the expectation of Warren Hastings’ (1732-1818) arrival in Calcutta to assume to Presidency with description
of a suicide attempt (and other brutalities) of a Sepoy upon the writer’s orders for him to be flogged and references to the writer’s and addressee’s mutual interest in classical music Important contents, mainly fine. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £1,000-1,200
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| 990 |
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): 1772 (May 10-30) document in the form of diary entries over twenty days (four pages, contents on three sides, no cover or address panel, central
fold) written by Boughton and describing the chronological cycle and development as to the “Propagation of Silk Worms/1772” , fine. Photo. Note: The East India Company’s interest in the subject was an attempt to wean themselves off the Chinese silk
trade. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £250-300
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| 991 |
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): 1772-73 Boughton’s duplicate letter book, bound in thick paper covers, containing transcriptions with pasted title on the front cover “Letters
written from October 29th 1772 to the September 13 1773” incl. to Hastings, Charles Bentley, and Fowke and those to Boughton. The contents give insight as to how Boughton shared sensitive information on East India Company policy well before the
constitutional crisis with allies who would later become Hastings’ foes. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £800-1,000
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| 992 |
, entire, etc. |
 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): Selection of 1773-74 letters (no address panels or covers) to Boughton from England, possibly his mother “my dear Boy, will you never write to
me?” one with a separate technical detailed drawing (and hand-coloured) of a monument to be erected in the memory of Boughton’s late brother William, who had died recently. (3) Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £120-150
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| 993 |
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): 1773 (Apr. 20) and 1774 (Apr. 17) letters (no address panels or covers) to Boughton from his mother or sister in England and making clear family
expectations for fortune with a clear conscience. (2) Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £80-100
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| 994 |
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): 1773 (May 23) two pages (contents on four sides) from a notebook entry labelled and headed “Representation of a Bengal Fiddle called Sarinda &
Description of it” again by Boughton and including a to-scale illustration in ink and pencil of the instrument, remarkably early example of the East India Company’s developmental knowledge of Indian organology, particularly prior to the formation of
the Asiatic Society. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £500-600
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| 995 |
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): 1773 (Oct. 21) letter (two pages, contents on one side, no cover or address panel) docketed “Fm the Governor Oct 21”, written and signed by
Warren Hastings (1732-1818) to Boughton “...I have the highest sense both of your abilities and protensions...” etc. Important insight into the allegiance between the Governor and Boughton, a provincial chief, that would prove critical in the
Calcutta Coup d’Etat and save the Governor’s leadership in 1777. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £2,500-3,000
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| 996 |
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): 1774 (Jan. 28) letter (two page, contents on four sides, no cover or address panel) to Boughton written and signed by Mary Campbell
(London)“....been informed that Mr Hastings attaches himself to you.....[East] India House is all in confusion”. Important insight into the relationship between Boughton and Hastings and the financial collapse of the East India Company and associated
Regulating Act (1773). Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £250-300
Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. |
| 997 |
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): 1774 (Feb. 22) letter (one page, contents on both sides, no cover or address panel) docketed “General Smiths’ Memorandum....” to “Mr Boughton
Rous....” written by General Richard Smith (1734-1803), a former East India Company Commander-in-Chief at Bengal. The contents describing Boughton’s rise within the East India Company due to academic abilities, Smith seeking to protect him from the
British Government following the arrival of Clavering, Francis and Monson and by proxy Hastings’ and his own interests. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £1,200-1,500
Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. |
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): 1774-75 partly bound duplicates of Boughton’s mail entitled “Letters written to Europe between August 74 & July 75” being 68 numbered pages and
with reference to Richard Barwell (1741-1804) on pages 45-50, mainly fine. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £150-200
Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. |
| 999 |
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): 1774 (Dec. 28) letter (two pages, partly severed, contents on four sides, no cover or address panel) to Boughton written and signed by Mrs A.
Golding and datelined at Patna with contemporary society remarks concerning the newly arrived General Clavering’s family in Calcutta and how his youngest daughter is charming the men on her harpsicord. The General had arrived two months earlier to
impose the (British) Regulating Act (1773). Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £150-200
Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. |
| 1000 |
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 India: The Charles William Boughton Rous Dacca Archive (1770–1782): 1775 (ca.) two page treatise (contents on three sides) on the: Hundu Cosmos (with Debangari script) written by Boughton detailing a “Description
of the Sun & Planets from a Sanskrit manuscript, explained to me by Kewal Ram Bissbint Buttechange of Nuddaeah” and an attempt to reconcile a celestial glossary with British empirical distances. Important early insight into East and West scientific
interactions. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £600-800
Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. |
