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10 pages.

Scope and Contents The collection includes original letters from Le Fleming to his mother Florence, known in the family as 'FM’. Subjects include Le Fleming’s travel to Malaya and within the region for work and leisure; descriptions of his duties and colleagues at the FMSR in Ipoh and Kula Lumpur; friends and social life; painting and design; holidays in Europe; the Malay and Chinese people; Malaya’s landscape, butterflies, botany and wildlife; training with the FMS Volunteer forces; and the deteriorating...

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4 sheets.

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5 pages.

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22 pages.

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68 pages.

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Annotated script of a radio documentary broadcast during the Malayan Emergency (2 sheets).

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60 x 80 mm.

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Palm-leaf manuscript of 22 leaves, with two blank leaves at each end. Strung through a single centre hole with a plain cord. Each leaf is numbered on the verso. Five lines of writing on each side.

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72 pages.

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14 pages.

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This is a brief discussion of boundary issues between Malaya and Siam after 1909 (3 sheets).

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Much of the correspondence relates to an article printed in the 'Penang Gazette' on 17 April 1827, written by Captain Lake, Inspector-General of Plans at Penang, criticising the treaty the that Burney had recently negotiated with Siam [Thailand]. Several of the letters were written by William Cox, the editor of the paper. Burney's complaints to the Government of India were upheld.

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1 Letter dated Penang, 20 July 1827, from Captain Lake regarding the article in the ‘Penang Gazette’ 4 pages
2 Letter regarding the article in the ‘Penang Gazette’ from A.D. Maingy. Undated, 4 pages
3 Duplicate of RCMS 65/4/28/1 above
4 Reply of Captain Burney, dated 11 Oct 1827. 4 pages
5 Letter dated 15 Sept 1826, from R. Fullerton. 4 pages

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Notes on history, culture and religion.

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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Contains loose prints from the 1950s and 1960s, supplementing the main historical collection. The main subjects are 44-57, 63-70 Indigenous peoples; 93-109 ceremonies (including Merdeka, 1957, 96-98); 110-121 Gurkhas; 122-139 Sarawak; 140-179 Singapore (including official visits and formal occasions).

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Includes only Thai equivalents for Latin words alphabetically between testudineus and zythum. Neither the Latin nor the Thai words (in transcription) appear to be written by Burney, with a few pencilled exceptions.

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6 pages.

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Notes on the population and products of the principal towns of the Kingdom of Siam; lists of principal officers of state and their emoluments; and notes on foreign trade. Probably acquired by Burney from the Portuguese Consul in Bangkok during 1825-26. 16 sheets. Incomplete.

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1 Column of Siamese numerals (1 sheet)

2 Tho sok, the thirteenth koon (1 sheet)

3-5 Calculations (3 sheets)

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Probably compiled for the paper Burney presented to the Royal Asiatic Society (1 sheet).

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Research material collected by Burney between 1830 and 1837, including an article 'On the titles of the kings of Ava' published in the ‘Transactions of the Asiatic Society.’ There are also notes on Shan place names (c 50 sheets).

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108 pages

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...