File 497C. - Journal to the East Indies & Home [Vol. 1],

The first volume [110 pp.] of a 'Journal to the East Indies & Home' by, and in the autograph of, T. Hastings, who, according to the journal, was going out to join his regiment (22nd Light Dragoons) as a captain. The journal covers the period 25 March - 21 November 1803 and describes the voyage to Madras on board the East Indiaman Wexford and the subsequent 'march' in company with Lieutenant Conran in palanquins as far as Adonee and Hutcholi where the present account ends. There are several sketches in pencil and watercolour, some pasted on to the pages, and also specimens (fragile) of a butterfly and the wing of a flying-fish. At the beginning of the volume are three loose items, probably all originally inside a wrapper marked 'Vellore Papers. Three Letters', containing accounts of the Vellore Mutiny, 1806, viz. a copy of an account by Mrs Fancourt, [widow of Colonel Fancourt], 24 July 1806, and copies made by Mrs Anna Maria Gore, one if not both for Captain Hastings, of a letter, 25 September 1806, from Eliza Prichard, Vellore ('Mr Prichard' being the Garrison Surgeon at Vellore) to Mrs Dalrymple at Hydrebad [sic] and of a letter, 2 October 1806, from Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Gore, Hydrebad to Mr Skardon, this last transcript dated Abinger Hall, 11 May 1807.