Manuscript Guides

Australia:
Guide to the Papers of Lachlan Macquarie and the Macquarie Family in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.
Prepared by Warwick Hirst. Sydney: Library Council of New South Wales, 1990.

Also available online as two (2) PDF documents on the State Library of NSW website:
Guide to the Papers of Lachlan Macquarie and the Macquarie Family 1787-1836.
www.sl.nsw.gov.au/picman
[Search for Macquarie Papers]

Index to the Papers of the New South Wales Colonial Secretary 1788 - 1825: Handbook.
Sydney: Archives Authority of New South Wales, 1989. (Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales No. 30).

Also available online:
Index to the Colonial Secretary Papers 1788 - 1825
colsec.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/colsec/default.htm

United Kingdom:
BANTON, Mandy. Administering the Empire, 1801-1968: a guide to the records of the Colonial Office in The National Archives of the UK. London: University of London, Institute of Historical Research in conjunction with The National Archives of the UK, 2008.

BAXTER, Ian A. India Office Library and Records. A Brief Guide to Biographical Sources. London: British Library, 1990 [2nd ed.]

HILL, Samuel Charles. Catalogue of the Home Miscellaneous Series of the India Office Records. London: India Office, 1927.

MOIR, Martin. A General Guide to the India Office Records. London: British Library, 1988.

Papers of British Cabinet Ministers, 1782-1900. London: H.M.S.O, 1982.

Papers of British Politicians, 1782-1900. London: H.M.S.O, 1989.

Private Papers of British Colonial Governors, 1782-1900. London: H.M.S.O, 1986.

RODGER, N.A.M. Naval Records for Genealogists. Kew: PRO Publications, 1998 [Public Record Office Handbook No.22]

ROPER, Michael. The Records of the Foreign Office 1782-1968. Richmond: Public Record Office, 2002 [2nd ed].
(Public Record Office Handbook no. 13).

WAINWRIGHT, M.D. and MATTHEWS, Noel. A Guide to Western Manuscripts and Documents in the British Isles Relating to South and South East Asia. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.

Netherlands:
De archieven van de Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie. The Archives of the Dutch East India Company (1602-1795). Comp. by R. Raben, H. Spijkerman and M. Meilink-Roelofsz. Sdu Uitgeverij Koninginnegracht: '-Gravernhage, 1992.

GOMMANS, Jos, BES, Lennant, and KRUJTZER, Gijs, Dutch Sources on South Asia c.1600-1825 Vol.1 Bibliography and Archival Guide to the National Archives at the Hague (Netherlands). New Delhi: Manohar, 2001. [see: pp.59-73; 221-299].

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