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Robert Clive Papers Verelst, Harry, 1734-1785
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India Letter Book: letters from England to India,

Letters to India from Clive at Walcot, Bath and Berkeley Square, and from Paris and Montpellier (during his tour of Europe) mainly to Henry Verelst (Clive's successor as governor of Bengal)and other East India Company officers containing Clive's opinions on civil and military matters in Bengal; his recommendations to appointments in the Company's service; Clive's unfavourable opinion of the directors; and discussing the salt trade and his jagir. ). The last letter addressed to Claud Russell (p. 62) is continued in CR6/2 .For a nineteenth century transcript see NLW, Sir John Malcolm Papers M4/1.