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On the mission to Cochin China, see Suzanne Karpeles 'Notes on a Manuscript relative to a Burmese Embassy to Cochinchina', ‘Journal of the Burma Research Society’, vol. 42, no. 2 (December 1959), 1-7.

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A note reads 'This map was copied from a large map secretly brought to Lt. Col. Burney from the Palace of the King of Ava. The original measured 12 feet by 7 feet.'

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Archives created by the British soldier and diplomat Henry Burney relating to his service in Burma [Myanmar] and Siam [Thailand]. The cataloguing of the collection has occurred in several stages. In 1921, the RCI Librarian Evans Lewin listed the main English language material in four series, assigning each a letter, A to D. In 1958, Dr D.K. Wyatt examined the Siamese material, including some as yet uncatalogued European material. He listed it in three sections, with the letters E, F, and...

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4 pages.

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Pencil note on cover reads ‘Document of the Burmese Envoys to Cochin China in 1823-1824.' 30p.

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English translation.14 pages.

Scope and Contents A transcript of letters from Copeland to his mother, 6 June 1917 - 22 April 1918, 236 pages, describing his service in Agra and Chakrata, U.P; Maymo, Burma; and Poona. The volume is marked 'Volume 5', but nothing is known of the earlier and later volumes, or of the fate of the writer. The transcript was presumably made by Copeland's mother, although the date it was written is not known. The volume includes 101 photographs and 12 postcards of India and Burma, including architectural...

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4 pages.

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Lists 10 works, presumably collected by Burney.

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4 sheets, Burmese script.

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240 x 370 mm, 2 sheets, 45 lines to a sheet. Copied in B.E. 1156 (October 1834).

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1 sheet.

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European paper notebook, 140 x 100 mm, 8 sheets, in Burmese and English.

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2 sheets.

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There are two copies of the list, a draft and a finished copy. On the latter is written, 'Some Bengalee Bramins at Ava furnished me with these lists of the countries and cities mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures with corresponding names in Bengalee Sanscrit. H. Burney' (12 pages).

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European paper; 5 sheets.

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153 x 114 mm. Showing a line of Burmese women with loads of fuel carried on their heads, standing on a gang plank waiting to board a steamer.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...

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132 x 92 mm.

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91 x 130 mm.

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131 x 92 mm.

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132 x 91 mm.

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131 x 92 mm.