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GB 891 SC29-SC29/1-SC29/1/10
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"Letter from Moraba to Nana Furnevees dated 2 April 1769"
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- 2nd Apr 1769 (Creation)
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1 pieces with five folds handwritten
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"Letter from Moraba to Nana Furnevees (Fadnavis) dated 2 April 1769". Moraba was the cousin of Nana Fadnavis, who accompanied the Peshwa, Madhu Rao, and wrote under his orders. The letter is in Marathi with the title in English in a different hand.
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- Marathi
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Briggs' translation of this letter can be found in Secret Correspondence of the Court of the Peshwa, Madhu Rao, from the Year 1761 to 1772. Translated from Original Mahratta Letters, Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society II, 1830, pp. 146-7.
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- Madhu Rao I Peshwa 1744-1772 (Subject)
- Moraba Fadnavis (Subject)
- John Briggs 1785-1875 (Subject)