| Description | Copy letter from William Duff, Fort William [Bengal] to his brother James, London, thanking for letters, sorry to report that their brother John has been ill, everything James writes will be interesting to him but he can hardly write anything that will be interesting to James, economies in the civil establishment but not yet in the military, meeting of the British inhabitants of Calcutta wanting to petition for a repeal of much of the last India bill, General Sloper’s arrival and Lord Macartney’s unpopularity, visit of a Portuguese Major whose motives are unclear, possible promotion for their brother Patrick, 30 July 1785 |