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GB 891 BHH-BHH/5-BHH/5/4-BHH/5/4/2
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Letter from Ganapat Sakai to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 4 January 1847
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- 4th Jan 1847 (Creation)
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Letter from Ganapat Sakai to Brian Houghton Hodgson at Darjeeling, 4 January 1847, in which he thanks Hodgson for his letter and writes that he will try to exchange the Pandit and send the painter in his due time. He then writes of the Maharaja and his sons going to Benares and that the then Resident, Dr Login, has returned from accompanying the Maharaja. A new resident Major Thoresby has been appointed who,with Lord Ellenborough,has been at Durbar and Jhawnee. He writes that he learnt from the Delhi Gazette of Mr Colvin returning from Ceylon. Handwritten, 2 sides, dated 4 January 1847.
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- English