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Madras. Asia - India. State. Longitude: 78.0000. Latitude: 11.0000.

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Letters of Captain Alexander Lindsay to his brother, Thomas Lindsay, merchant, Montrose. With a photograph of a portrait of Alexander Lindsay.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13230
Scope and Contents

27 letters and one bill of lading of Alexander Lindsay to Thomas Lindsay. The letters are written from ports visited by Alexander Linsday during his career as a sea captain. Places visited include Calcutta, Madras, the Cape of Good Hope, Havre de Graca, Hamburg, as well as Portsmouth and London. One letter tells of his imprisonment by the French and an attack by pirates. With a photograph of a portrait of Alexander Lindsay.

Dates: 1789-1799.

Reminiscences, ? 1936, of the Reverend Dr E M Macphail.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8299
Scope and Contents

Concerning his service in Madras Christian College in 1886-1887 and of life in Madras at this time.

With letter, 1936, of Secretary of Madras Christian College Day Association to Macphail.

Dates: 1936 and undated.