Cavenagh Letterbook [07]

A volume of Sir Orfeur Cavenagh's private letterbooks from his time as Governor of the Straits Settlements (Singapore, Malaya, and Penang) from 1859-1867. Materials included also provide insight into his military career in India and Nepal (1837 -1858). Orfeur was an army officer and colonial governor (1820-1891), who served as the last India-appointed Governor of the Straits Settlements. Topics mentioned in this volume include the amount of crime in Malacca, the deportation of Chinese Rebels and their families to the Stations of the Straits Settlements, and repeated warnings to the Sultan of Tringanu to stop investigating the Peninsula.

In Collection:

• Cavenagh Family Collection

Creator

• Cavenagh, Orfeur

Subject

• Governors
• Armies--Officers
• Families
• Cavenagh, Orfeur
• Colonies
• Politics and government
• Great Britain. Army
• East India Company
• History
• Cavenagh (family)

Language

• eng

Date created

• July 10, 1863 to December 24, 1863

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Extent

• 94 pages ; 23 x 19 cm

Geographic coverage

• Malaysia--Pulau Pinang (State)
• Asia--Straits Settlements
• Malaysia--Malacca (Malacca)
• Singapore

Coordinates

• 5.37292, 100.24963
• 1.28967, 103.85007
• 2.25, 102.25

Additional physical characteristics

• Soft cover volume.

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Cavenagh Family Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• handwriting
• manuscripts (documents)
• correspondence
• diaries
• letters (correspondence)
• letter books

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 1996-067; Subseries 5, Private Letter Books; Item 2.2.7

Fonds title

• Cavenagh family fonds

Fonds identifier

• SC023

Is referenced by

• Special Collections finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/cavenagh-family-fonds

Date digitized

• July 2017 to September 2017

Technical note

• Scanned on TTI/Betterlight at 600 DPI by PD. Metadata by MT.

Rights

• Use of this material is permitted for research and private study purposes only to the UVic researcher community. For all other uses, contact University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/dv01-np65

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