BIB_ID
300986
Accession number
MA 3200.9
Creator
Altham, Emmanuel, 1600-1635 or 1636.
Display Date
1631 Dec. 25.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, 1978.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 30.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to "To my Honorable Brother Sr Edward Altham knight, dwellinge at Marke Hall in Essex in Laton. Inquire for Sr. Edward Latham at ye signe of ye Starr in Pauls church yard: a woolyndrapers shop right against ye south dore of ye Church, of one Mr. Ralph Hawtry, and he will direct you as afore desired, London, Pr my good frend Mr. Collison whome God preserve."
Docketed "Decr. 1631."
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 "Fort Armago ... upon ye Coast of Cormondell [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 "Decr. 1631."
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 "Fort Armago ... upon ye Coast of Cormondell [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 he arrived "all in health" at the Fort of Armagon on June 25, 1631, but that he has been ill with fever since that time. Noting that "the country wherein wee now live is much afflicted with war and famine inswering that ye trade of these pts doe much decay."
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