India.- Stopford (James S., Sheriff of Fort William, Calcutta, 1844) Archive of his personal papers, including 2 journals (India and Egypt, 1839, and India, 1840), and extensive correspondence (c.90 letters of varying lengths), mostly from Calcutta, but also from other Asian locations, and one from Malta, including the odd manuscript plan, postal ink stamps, folds, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, housed in a ?contemporary box file with manuscript 'Letters' and decoration to spine, lid detaching, soiled, v.s., [1830s-1840s] (c.100 pieces)*** An excellent insight into the life of a colonial official in the first half of the 19th century.