File BHH/5/30 - Correspondence with Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff

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Correspondence with Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff

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  • 1873 (Creation)

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Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff GCSI CIE PC FRS (21 February 1829 – 12 January 1906), known as M. E. Grant Duff before 1887 and as Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff thereafter, was a Scottish politician, administrator and author. He served as the Under-Secretary of State for India from 1868 to 1874, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1880 to 1881 and the Governor of Madras from 1881 to 1886.

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Correspondence with Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff. A set of letters between Hodgson and Grant Duff concerning trade routes through Nepal and Tibet, dating to 1873.

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