IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/074
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: EAST INDIA COMPANY
Date(s): 1618-1827
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 4 production units.
Name of creator(s): East India Company
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The East India Company was based at East India House, Leadenhall Street (Sir William Craven's mansion house, rebuilt in 1726 and enlarged in 1799, occupying 11-21 Leadenhall Street in 1842, demolished in 1862 and the site sold to Lloyd's of London).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the East India Company, comprising warrant for the delivery of tea; correspondence and receipts; account book of the ship "Ganges"; and papers relating to an investigation into the alleged sale of a staff position in the Madras establishment.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Guildhall Library holds only miscellaneous records of the East India Company, chiefly deeds, 17th-19th centuries (Ms 817, 3613, 6439, 9895, 19531-44, 24705, and 31375, and Add. Mss. 1123-32, and 1135). The main archives are held at the British Library, in the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collection.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2010 to January 2011.