Archief RM - Papers of Robert Millar

1 bound volume

Donated by Sir Cyril Walter Gurner to the Society in January 1957.

Leather-bound manuscript entitled ‘Extracts of a Journal of a Voyage to the East Indies and return to England, Annis Domini 1817 and, 1818 in a merchant ship of the H. E. I. C. [Honourable East India Company]’. The manuscript documents the encounters of the writer, Robert Millar, an assistant surgeon aboard the East India Company ship Princess Charlotte of Wales, in his journey through Madras, Calcutta and St Helena. In the preliminaries the writer writes that he has copied out this manuscript form his notebook for the perusal of his sister, Anne. Includes a printed map of Bengal, 'projected by C. A. 1810', an illustration of an adjutant described by the locals and an annotated diagram of the canoe vessel used by the natives.

With Sir Cyril Walter Gurner's bookplate on the inside pastedown. A typescript note on the flyleaf, dated January 1957 and signed by Gurner, shows that the manuscript was purchased by the late L. S. S. O'Malley Esq., Indian Civil Service, in Norwich, and came into Gurner's possession when O'Malley left for Calcutta.

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• Engels

Most part of this manuscript was, after its purchase by O'Malley, published in two parts in 'Bengal Past and Present', the Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society, 1916 (vol. 13, pp 177-199) and 1917 (vol. 14, pp. 120-132).

First catalogued by Nancy Charley, RAS Archivist, in 2019. Re-catalogued by James Liu, RAS Archivist, in April 2025.