Dutch India: the Letter as a Record of the Voyage
Cochin, the Coromandel factories, Bengal and Surat survive in letters that record ships, copies, arrivals and official decisions.
Dutch India
Cochin, the Coromandel factories, Bengal and Surat survive in correspondence that records ships, copies, arrivals and official decisions.
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Dutch India: Places, Government and a Collecting Guide
A correspondence collection spread across several Indian regions, with the letters of Cochin at its centre.
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Dutch Cochin and Malabar: a Network Carried in Letters
Coastal exchanges, overseas packets and the Indian rulers whose letters survive in the records of Dutch Cochin.
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Reading Dutch Indian Letters: Addresses, Signatures and Dockets
The outside of a folded letter can tell a second story alongside the message written inside.
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Dutch India: Originals, Duplicates and Lost Mail
Sending copies by separate ships was a practical answer to uncertain carriage; the records keep distinctions an album should keep too.
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Dutch India: Ships, Routes and Shared Carriage
A Surat letter of 1630 went east to Java before it went west to London: the nationality of a ship is not the nationality of the letter.
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Dutch India: Indian Rulers, Languages and the Correspondence
Olas, translated letters and diplomatic forms show a network that reached far beyond the European offices.
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Finding Dutch Indian Letters: Archives, Copies and Provenance
Old shelf lists, modern inventories and captured mail each keep a different part of the record.
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Dutch India: the 1824 Treaty, the 1825 Transfers and the Stamp Era
A treaty closed one collecting period; older Dutch connections carried on in a different postal setting.
