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Copy of T7/6 for Lady Clive but without the memorandum.

Catalogue of the library at Berkeley Square catalogued by size with location followed by music books and maps; an alphabetical catalogue of books at Claremont, January 1775 and since removed to Berkeley Square; and catalogues of books at Walcot and Oakly extracted from Mr Probert’s inventories The whole library was valued at £850-16-0. The catalogue ends with an acknowledgement by Edward Clive that he has received from his father’s executors all the books catalogued in accordance to his father’s will.

Poem, [c. 1771], in honour of Lord Clive by Francis Bacon Lee.

Letters, 12 March 1765-15 March 1767, to Clive in India and during his voyages out and back from Margaret, Lady Clive at Berkeley Square and Westcomb but also from his son Edward at Berkeley Square and Eton. They convey news of family and friends, events and happenings in England and Ned’s (Edward’s) schooling and make recommendations for appointments in the Company’s service. Some of Lady Clive’s letters are long, that of 12 Nov. 1766, for example, comprising 23 pages.

Letters from Lady Clive in Europe to Lord Clive in England written in the context of the continental tour which they both undertook in 1768, but from which Clive returned earlier than his wife because of an illness that prevented him from travelling. The letters, dated 9 and 21 Sept. 1768, and written from Spa in France to Clive at Berkeley Square, speak of Lady Clive’s progress and homecoming.

Papers acquired by Robert Clive, 1739-1772, some deliberately, others it seems by accident.

Financial journal of Edward Crisp of London detailing income received (much from shipping investments) and of expenditure. The journal begins with lists of balances due to and from ‘the estate of Edward Crisp, Esq. Dec.’ He may be related to another Edward Crisp, Clive’s accountant (see also R5/2).

Daybook and ready money of a London firm of chinaware dealers, almost certainly Messrs Crisp, Sanders & Co., Vauxhall.

A manuscript, [c. 1766], comprising copies of letters relating to a dispute between George Johnstone, the governor of West Florida, and the deputy governor. George Johnstone was the leader of a group in the House of Commons which took part in the attack on Clive in the parliamentary enquiry of 1772-1773. His brother, John Johnstone, a member of the Calcutta Select Committee, disputed Clive’s powers as governor of Bengal in 1765. These links perhaps help to explain Clive’s interest in and custody of the manuscript.

An incomplete manuscript, [c. 1772], of a Refutation of Considerations on Indian Affairs by William Bolts (1772), being presumably A View of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the British Government in Bengal (1772) by Harry Verelst, Clive’s successor as governor.

Letter books and bundles of loose letters containing official and some private correspondence mainly from, but also, to Clive, relating to his life in India and England, 1752-1759,1765-1774. For the most part there is no clear division between either the public and private or the Indian and European aspects of the correspondence. Owing to the predominance of the public correspondence, it is Clive's service in the East India Company and, in the wider context, the history of British rule in India, rather than his domestic and private concerns, that provide the main subject matter. The group also contains indexes and registers of corespondence, and letters written in Persian, 1752-1773, almost all addressed to Clive, relating mainly to military and financial affairs in India and to relationship with and between native Indian rulers.

Enclosed are two letters (one of 14 Sept. 1759 from Clive at Calcutta to G. Pocock [i.e. Rear-Admiral George Pocock] regarding the insufficient numbers of troops to meet the military needs of Bengal) and an index in a modern hand on note paper headed 'All Souls College, Oxford. November 10. 1914'. -- Endorsed: 'No 10'

Letters sent mainly by Clive within India (but including some from H. S. [Henry Strachey, his secretary] during his third and final period there including his second governorship of Bengal, 1765-1767. The wide range of subject matter provides information about the country's internal politics, the civil and military aspects of Clive's duties as governor and various other matters including Clive's own private concerns (e.g. his interest in diamonds), the personal fortunes of company servants, and the Batta mutiny and the ensuing court martials, April-August, 1766, including the arrest, trial and court martial of the mutiny's instigator, Sir Robert Fletcher.