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- 1792-1793 (Creation)
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Samuel Holmes was Sergeant-Major of the 12th light dragoons.
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GB 0117 MS 72 1792-1793 Sub-fonds 1 volume Holmes , Samuel , fl 1792-1793 , Sergeant-Major
Samuel Holmes was Sergeant-Major of the 12th light dragoons.
'Journal of Samuel Holmes of a Voyage to China and Tartary, 1792-1793, during his attendance, as one of the guard, on Lord Macartney's Embassy to China'. The original manuscript of the book published in 1795. Also a letter dated Reading 7 December 1799 from Holmes to Sir William Young.
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Paper, bound, 74 ff, size 12.5 x 8.5
The Journal of Samuel Homes ... during his attendance as one of the guard on Lord Macartney's Embassy to China and Tartary 1792-1793, S. Homes (1798).
Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
Feb 2009. China Young , Sir , William , 1749-1815 , 2nd Baronet , Governor of Tobago Travel East Asia
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'Journal of Samuel Holmes of a Voyage to China and Tartary, 1792-1793, during his attendance, as one of the guard, on Lord Macartney's Embassy to China'. The original manuscript of the book published in 1795. Also a letter dated Reading 7 December 1799 from Holmes to Sir William Young.
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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
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- Latin
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General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
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