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- [18th cent.?] (Production)
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1 volume: 2 front endpapers and 12 blank ff followed by ff 1-118, MS; 14 blank ff and 2 endpapers follow.
2 letters (1 folded sheet and 1 sheet) pasted in at front endpaper.
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Bookplate of Richard Shawe, Casino, Dulwich Hill, Surrey (Shawe, 1755-1816, was the lawyer who defended Warren Hastings in his impeachment trial, 1788-1795).
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Gift of William Aldis Wright, Feb. 1909.
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Two letters from G. L. Strachey to W. Aldis Wright ['Dear Vice-Master...] attached to front endpaper: 1 Feb. 1904 and 12 Oct 1904. The first lists books Strachey has borrowed from Wright; the second accompanies the return of the books, thanking Aldis Wright, and noting that one, the index to papers re Hastings at the India Office, lists an order different to the papers' current state.
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Front and back boards detached.
Finding aids
Printed material relating to the trial of Warren Hastings given to the Library by Aldis Wright along with this MS volume can be found at Adv. c. 16.40 and in class X: see the online catalogue of printed books, https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/library-catalogues/.
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Lytton Strachey's dissertation, submitted in Sept. 1905 for a fellowship at Trinity (he was unsuccessful), was entitled Warren Hastings, Cheyt Sing, and the Begums of Oude