1-272-847 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Letter from Robert Clive to Thomas Pelham-Holles, 23rd February 1757. Letter, written from near Calcutta by Clive of India when Lt-Colonel commanding the Madras forces, to Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, First Lord of the Treasury, reporting the recovery of Calcutta, his defeat of the army of the Nawab Suraj-Dowlah in the outskirts, and the conclusion of peace and an allliance. From the second series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I-V. (London, 1899).