Great Britain - India Office - Transcripts compiled by Frederick Charles Danvers, of selected Dutch documents relating to India and the East Indies, 1600-1699

MAV/FM4/1804-1830
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fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432407

7 microfilm reels 35 mm

Frederick Charles Danvers was Registrar and Superintendent of Records of the India Office from 1884 to 1898. Between 1893 and 1895 he made a number of visits to the State Archives in The Hague to inspect and arrange for the copying of official Dutch records of the seventeenth century relating to the East Indies. These translations are in Dutch with some English translations are now held in the India Office, London

The documents deal with all activities of the Dutch in the East from the regulation of trade to the treatment of indigenous people, and particularly relations with Chinese, French, Spanish, English and Portuguese traders and officials. The following three groups of records have been microfilmed: (1) Letters from India 1600-99 with English translations 1600-70. (2) Letters from the Dutch East India Company to India 1614-1700, with English translations. (3) Letters from the Governor General at Batavia to various factories 1617-99, with English translations 1617-1643.

Dutch, English

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales.
National Library of Australia holds microfilm master.
Available for reference.
Australian Joint Copying Project handbook. Part 8 : Miscellaneous [M series], Entry 124, p.45.
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M550-576.
Microfilm copy of originals held by India Office Records, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 197 Blackfriars Rd, London, SE1 8NG, England.
Refer to the National Library of Australia’s AJCP Portal (https://www.nla.gov.au/content/australian-joint-copying-project) for information on Australian Joint Copying Project reels digitised in 2019/29