BIB_ID
300985
Accession number
MA 3200.8
Creator
Altham, Emmanuel, 1600-1635 or 1636.
Display Date
1631 Feb. 28.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, 1978.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 31.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to "To my Honorable Brother Sr Edward Altam Knight dwelling at Marke Hall in Essex, in Latton near Eppinge."
Docketed "Feby 1631 / East India."
Part of a collection of nine letters from Emmanuel Altham to his brother Sir Edward Altham and two related documents; items in the collection have been described separately in eleven catalog records (MA 3200.1-11); see related records for more information.
Written from "Ye ffort of Armago ... Coast of Wormondell [i.e., Coromandel]." Fort Armagon (or Armagaon) was the second colony (established 1625 or 1626) of the English East India Company in Southern India, just north of Pulicat Lake. Its original name was Durgarazpatnam (Dugarazpatam). Altham was appointed Captain of that fort in 1630.
Docketed "Feby 1631 / East India."
Part of a collection of nine letters from Emmanuel Altham to his brother Sir Edward Altham and two related documents; items in the collection have been described separately in eleven catalog records (MA 3200.1-11); see related records for more information.
Written from "Ye ffort of Armago ... Coast of Wormondell [i.e., Coromandel]." Fort Armagon (or Armagaon) was the second colony (established 1625 or 1626) of the English East India Company in Southern India, just north of Pulicat Lake. Its original name was Durgarazpatnam (Dugarazpatam). Altham was appointed Captain of that fort in 1630.
Provenance
From the Oliver R. Barrett collection; his sale (New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1 November 1950, lot 928); P.D. Sang; sale April 26, 1978, lot 241.
Summary
Reporting that "I am in good health and doubt not by the blessing of God of good success."
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