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Robert Clive Papers Fletcher, Robert, Sir, ca. 1738-1776
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'Country letter books',

Letters sent mainly by Clive within India (but including some from H. S. [Henry Strachey, his secretary] during his third and final period there including his second governorship of Bengal, 1765-1767. The wide range of subject matter provides information about the country's internal politics, the civil and military aspects of Clive's duties as governor and various other matters including Clive's own private concerns (e.g. his interest in diamonds), the personal fortunes of company servants, and the Batta mutiny and the ensuing court martials, April-August, 1766, including the arrest, trial and court martial of the mutiny's instigator, Sir Robert Fletcher.