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Work details

Applicant or licensee name:

The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning / McGill University

Applicant or licensee country:

Canada

Application number:

OWLS000203-1

Application date:

11/02/2020

Status of application:

Licence Granted

Title or short description:

Gwillim Correspondence 1801-1807

Full description:

The Gwillim correspondence consists of four volumes of manuscript letters written by Elizabeth Gwillim née Symonds (1763-1807), and her sister Mary Symonds (b. 1772) during their residence in Madras (Chennai) between 1801 and 1807, the year of Elizabeth's death, plus one letter from Sir Henry Gwillim written in 1809. The letters are held in the India Office Records and Private Papers, British Library (Mss Eur C240). The letters were purchased by the BL in 1971.

Category:

Written works

Type of work:

Manuscript

Museum, gallery, library or archive holding the work:

British Library, India Office and Private Papers

Details and dates of publication, broadcast and/or distribution:

In 2006, McGill University Library in Montreal acquired a copy of the microfilm of the letters. In September 2019, McGill Library purchased scans of the original letters from the BL.

Uses

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Preservation purposes

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Known creators or right holders

Type	Located	Name
Creator	No	Elizabeth Symonds Gwillim
Creator	No	Mary Symonds
Creator	No	Henry Gwillim

Known identifiers

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