Individual Notes
Note for: Baldwin Malet, 17 Dec 1745 - 16 Feb 1750
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Christening: Date: 15 Jan 1746
Place: Combe Florey, Somerset, England
Individual Notes
Note for: Charles Warre Malet, Chr. 30 Dec 1752 - 15 Dec 1815
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Christening: Date: 30 Dec 1752
Place: Coombe Florey, Somerset, England
Burial: Place: Newton Toney, St. Andrew, Wiltshire, England
Individual Note: 1785-1791 Resident minister at Poona, India.
Was created baronet Feb 24, 1791 for his services at Poona, India.
1791-1798 Acting Governor of Bombay.
1798 Retired and returned to England.
"of Wilbury Wiltshire (near Newton Tony), F.R.S. and F.S.A., filled several high official diplomatic employments under the East India Company, and was created a baronet 24 Feb 1791.
Was resident minister at Poona in India from 1785-1791.
1791-1798 Acting Governor of Bombay.
1798 retired and returned to England.
Purchased Wilbury House, Wiltshire in 1801.
NEWTON TONY, Wilbury House (SU 222 414)
Felling date ranges: 1570-1602, after 1588
(a) Re-used 16th century timbers
Lintel or plate 1564 (H/S); Moulded door jambs (3/4) 1541; 1557 (H/S?); 1579; Rail (0/1); beams (0/3). Site Master 1449-1579 WILBURY1 (t=9.7 MASTERAL; 8.9 HANTS97; 8.6 SENG98)
Re-used 17th century timbers
Felling date ranges: 1659-1691, after 1666
Moulded ribs 1650 (H/S); 1657. Site Master 1581-1657 WILBURY2 (t=6.5 THEVYNE3; 6.3 MARLBORO; 6.1 STNSTJN4)
The notable Neo-Palladian house at Wilbury was built by William Benson in 1710. It stands on the site of an earlier house which in the seventeenth century belonged to the Fiennes family and from which Celia Fiennes set out on her tours of England. Nothing was known of the pre-Benson house, until a major refurbishment of Wilbury took place in 1997-99. A full archaeological study was carried out by Dr Warwick Rodwell, and this revealed the wholesale re-use of sixteenth and seventeenth-century materials, particularily in the basement. Ashlars and moulded stonework, paving tiles, panelling, and scores of structural timbers from the Fiennes house had been recycled. Identifiable components included: wall-framing, roof timbers, ceiling beam, sets of floor joists, and moulded window and door frames. With the exception of two sets of elm floor joists, the timbers were all oak. A dozen samples, mostly from identifiable features, were sampled, and the results confirmed the deduction on architectural grounds that there were both sixteenth and seventeenth-century building phases. Notes compiled by Warwick Rodwell. (Miles and Worthington 1999, VA 30, list 100)
In Somerset archives:
1800-1814 Bundle of letter books of Sir Charles Malet:
a) 1800-1 including the dispute with Thos Charter and copies
of letters from 1790s.
b) 1805 mainly on military and international affairs, several
loose items, including letters to Joshua Uhthoff.
c) 1805-6 including Indian affairs, finances; loose letters to
Uhthoff.
d) 1806-7 including Volunteer business, letters to Uhthoff.
e) 1808-9 international affairs, estate and family business,
desire to be exempted from shrievalty.
f) 1811-12 including loose letters from India 1791-2 on suttee
and lynching in India.
g) 1812-14 financial and family affairs, India, instructions for
his illegitimate son Henry on his journeying to Bombay.
(1 bundle)
Sir Charles Malet (d. 1815)
147 1787-1791 Bundle of business letter from Sir Charles to Lt. Col. Dansey,
mainly concerning loans, with accounts of money remitted to
England, and his claim to a baronetage, probably packaged in
connection with a dispute with Thos. Charter. (39 items)
147/a 1787-1793 Bundle of copies of letters from Sir Charles to Col. Dansey
mainly financial and family matters and accounts of Indian
affairs, also to Thomas Charter, vetoing purchase of
Woodlands estate, Som., Hoare's, Governor Boddam;
accounts, list of securities, receipts, papers concerning loans;
letter from Charles's sister Anne to Col. Dansey concerning
settlement on her brother Alexander who married in 1788. (79
items)
148 n.d.
[C18] Sealed packet, marked B, of letters to Lt. Col. Dansey on Sir
Charles's affairs, probably copied into the letter books
(DD/MAL 152-172) (1 doc.)
149 n.d.
[C18] Sealed packet, one seal broken, marked C, of letters from Mr
Charter to Lt. Col. Dansey, copied into letter books, preserved
to justify Dansey's conduct.
(1 doc.)
150 n.d. Sealed packet, marked D, of letters to Lt. Col Dansey on Sir
Charles's affairs.
(1 doc.)
151 1787-1792 Letter book of Sir Charles Malet including correspondence
with Thos. Charter of Bishop's Lydeard, his brother-in-law,
also includes copies of other documents including bonds for
money lent, accounts of money at Hoare's 1774. (1 vol.)
152 1787-1792 Letter book of Sir Charles Malet including correspondence
with Thos. Charter and others concerning his fortune, dispute
with Charter and deposit of securities at Hoare's; copy of
power of attorney given to Dansey, 1787. (1 vol.)
153 1788-1792 Letter book of Sir Charles Malet including correspondence
with Thos. Charter concerning Sir Charles's fortune, loan to
Lord Poulet on Cudworth manor, possible sale of Balch
estates near Bridgwater and possible purchase for Sir Charles
of Woodlands estate in West Somerset.
(1 vol.)
154 1799-1800 Letter book of Sir Charles Malet's outgoing correspondence
on business matters and on international affairs especially
with regard to India; two loose draft letters concerning Mr
Irwin, a coachmaker, and complaining about a new carriage;
loose pages from the previous volume, now missing. (1 vol.)
155 1800-1801 Letter book of Sir Charles including Indian affairs, the Dansey
family, his Indian mistress and his children by her, the birth of
his son Alexander, with loose notes on views of Bombay by
his father-in-law James Wales. (1 vol.)
156 1800-1801 Letter book of Sir Charles. (1 vol.)
157 1801 Letter book of Sir Charles including request for a pension
loans, his precedency in the baronetage, proposed purchase
of Wilbury. (1 vol.)
158 1801-1802 Letter book of Sir Charles including requests for office in
Somerset or India, financial affairs, Wilbury purchase, his
nephew Wm. Dansey's affairs; loose letters concerning
purchase of a horse and two letters [not sent] to Thos. Charter
concerning the latter's debts to him.
(1 vol.)
159 1802-1803 Letter book of Sir Charles including his precedence, the
Dansey family, his quitting Hartham Park, nr. Chippenham,
and disputes with Thos. Charter. (1 vol.)
160 1803-1804 Letter book of Sir Charles including financial affairs, his Indian
mistress and his children by her, Wilbury Volunteers; with
loose notes on views of Bombay by his father-in-law James
Wales. (1 vol.)
161 1804 Letter book of Sir Charles including Wilbury Volunteers and
possible defence of the Channel coast, Indian and financial
affairs. (1 vol.)
162 1804-1805 Letter book of Sir Charles including Wilbury Volunteers,
financial affairs, Charterhouse Festival, his attempts to obtain
a barony; with loose letters concerning volunteers. (1 vol.)
163 1805 Letter book of Sir Charles, Apr.-Nov. 1805. (1 vol.)
164 1806 Letter book of Sir Charles, Nov. 1805-Apr. 1806. (1 vol.)
165 1806-1807 Letter book of Sir Charles, Apr. 1806-Feb. 1807. (1 vol.)
166 1807-1808 Letter book of Sir Charles including financial affairs, Indian
and European affairs; with loose letter concerning Napoleon
and Persia. (1 vol.)
167 1808-1809 Letter book of Sir Charles, Feb. 1808-Feb. 1809. (1 vol.)
168 1809-1811 Letter book of Sir Charles including Royal affairs, tree
planting, international affairs; with loose invitation to dinner,
draft letter concerning Persia, note on proposed new road
from Andover to Honiton through Somerset with sketch of
battle lines on back. (1 vol.)
169 1811-1812 Letter book of Sir Charles, June 1811-Apr. 1812. (1 vol.)
170 1812-1814 Letter book of Sir Charles, 27 Apr. 1812-Mar. 1814. (1 vol.)
171 1814 Letter book of Sir Charles including family affairs, the St Lo
family, money matters; with loose draft to earl of Pembroke
concerning militia. (1 vol.)
172 1815 Letter book of Lady Susanna recording the death of Sir
Charles, letters of J. Uhthoff concerning the funeral and
estate affairs; with loose letter to Francis Warden of Bombay
informing him of the death of Sir Charles. (1 vol.)
173 1927 List of Sir Charles Malet's letter books. (1 doc.)
174 1811-1812 Letters to Sir Charles from his nephew Capt. Dansey, mainly
concerning the Peninsular campaign including the battle at
Badajoz, from his sister Catherine Dansey concerning her son
and the St. Lo family, account of an embassy to Candia, letter
from the marquis of Buckingham on the death of his wife,
from his illegitimate son Henry on rote to Bombay with an
account of a visit to Madeira and the ceremony of crossing the
line, from his sister Anne concerning the St Lo family, from his
mistress Bebee Amber Koorr who has heard nothing of him or
her children for nearly a year, from his wife on domestic
matters, from Mrs Bebb congratulating him on marriage of his
elder illegitimate daughter Eliza and informing him of her
husband's illness and her nephew's change of regiment, from
Joseph Everett whose son wishes to marry Sir Charles's
sister-in-law, from Joshua Uhthoff concerning Sir Charles's
son Henry, Indian affairs and Bernadotte and sending a copy
of a letter from a friend Major Moor, from Major Moor from
Thos. Shephard concerning Judd farm, letters from G.
Matcham and Jacob Bosanquet concerning governorship of
Bombay, from a cousin congratulating him on Eliza's
marriage, from J. Rogers concerning indecent conduct of two
of Sir Charles's sons, from Elizabeth St. Lo concerning her
father and house, from his sister-in-law Margaret Wales to
Lady Susanna concerning her wish to become engaged, from
Wm Lucas on his son's desire to marry Margaret Wales and
from John Lucas on her funds in Bombay, from Mr St. Lo
concerning his estate, from Sir John Trevelyan on death of
Spencer Perceval and financial matters, from Penry Price
concerning loan to purchase land, from G. Bolton, an
acquaintance from India newly arrived in England, from W
Bruere on the Russian campaign and marriage; papers
relating to Judd farm, tithe payments and other Wilbury estate
matters. {27 of these letters were formerly numbered and
wrapped in a corresponding list, with some inaccuracies, but
all but one of Capt. Dansey's letters have since been replaced
by photocopies} (71 items)
175 1813-1814 Letters to Sir Charles from his nephew Capt. Dansey and
Major Moor on military matters {photocopies}, from his sister
Catherine Dansey, from his wife, from his sister Anne, from
Geo. Emmett concerning his son George, from W. Bruere
recommending a servant, from Eliz. St. Lo concerning her
father's debts, from James Forbes, correspondence with
Joshua Uhthoff concerning domestic and Indian matters, from
Geo. Nesbitt Thompson , from Dr Gabell at Winchester school
declining to admit his son at present, from hi son-in-law Revd.
Rob. Ekins, from Mr Warden in Bombay concerning a career
for his son ?Henry; notice of the death of John de Ponthieu;
papers relating to Wilbury estate including tithe accounts and
a defaulting tenant; verses including inscriptions from Temple
Cloud, Som.
(40 items)
176 1813 Letters to Sir Charles from Joshua Uhthoff concerning Sir
Charles's marriage and his illegitimate children especially
Eliza and the validity of her marriage under the name Malet;
from his wife at Godalming and Wilbury, from J. M. Cox on the
disappearance of Mr St. Lo, from Eliz. St. Lo anxious about
her father, from his sister Catherine Dansey, from John Bebb
with reference to Mail coach decorated for one of Wellington's
victories and Indian affairs, from W. Bruere on domestic
matters, from Lord Jas. O'Brien offering to help any of his
sons who wish to enter the navy, from James Forbes, from his
nephew Capt. Dansey in the Peninsular campaign
{photocopies}, from John Chaumez concerning the East India
Co. and family matters, from Sir Joseph Bankes, from
Crawford Bruce concerning the estate and wills of John de
Ponthieu, from Thos. Love Peacock postponing a reply to a
offer from Sir Charles; from Sir Charles's sister Eliz. to Lady
Susanna on the birth of Sir Charles's granddaughter with
details of the post natal treatments administered to Eliza, part
of a letter from the wife of the bishop of Salisbury to ?Lady
Malet concerning their move to London and an ordination,
from Mr Elphinstone to Mr Warden and reply concerning a
situation in India for Henry Malet. (33 letters)
177 1829 Letters to Sir Charles from his wife at Wilbury on domestic
matters including Eliza and her baby, recipe for currant wine,
and estate matters, from his illegitimate son Henry in Bombay
and Poona describing his journey and visit to his mother (with
typesccript copy), from his nephew Capt Dansey in the
Peninsular campaign (photocopies), from R. ?Torin in
Bombay concerning Henry, from his sister Catherine Dansey,
from Major Moor on horses and military matters, from Col.
Wilson in Bombay, from Edw. Hinxman, from Revd. A.
Burrowes concerning a missing baptism entry for the
Pemberton family, notification of the death of Mr Diss, from
Myrza Mahomed in Persian; from Sir Charles at Bath to G.
Rose M.P.; lists of names with occupations of men in the
parishes of Boscomb, Idmiston, Bulford, West Cholderton,
Allington and Newton Tony, the last in more detail - for the
militia? [w.m. 1829]; bill for Turkey carpet 1813. (30 items)
178 1808-1813 Letters to Sir Charles from Joshua Uhthoff in Bath and at
Huntingfield concerning the war in Europe, Catholic
emancipation, a fatal skating accident, Indian affairs including
Sir Charles's writings on India, and domestic matters, 1808-9,
1813, (photocopies), from James Forbes on paintings and a
visit to Windsor Castle, from Dr Cox at Fishponds concerning
state of Mr St.. Lo, from L. St. Lo concerning his daughter and
his illegitimate children with additions by Dr Cox , from Ann
Wartnaby concerning breaking off of Elizabeth St Lo's
engagement to Wm Wiltshire, from John Bebb on his health
and European affairs 1808-9, 1813.
(32 letters, mainly photocopies)
179 1814 Letters to sir Charles from his sister Catherine Dansey
concerning her son in Bayonne, from J. Uhthoff in Isle of
Wight concerning domestic matters and Lord Belmore's
yacht; from his sister Anne with one to Lady Susanna on
estate matters and victory celebration, from Major Moor, from
W. Bruere, from G. Matcham, from J. Kennaway, from Eliz.
St. Lo to Anne Malet concerning her father's disappearance,
from Mr Cribb framemaker concerning a picture, from Moore
and Dashwood of Sturminster Newton concerning Mr St. Lo's
affairs, letters and papers on tithes, household bills, estate
business, etc. (29 items)
180 1814 Letters to Sir Charles from J. Uhthoff on Indian and European
affairs (mainly photocopies), from his sister Anne and son
Alexander, from his sister Catherine Dansey concerning her
son's failure to get promotion, from his sister Anne Malet on
domestic and estate matters, from James Forbes, from his
sister-in-law Anna Wales on her broken engagement with Mr
Everett, from Gen. Henry Oakes concerning Capt. Dansey's
career, from Wm le Suet, who wishes to marry Anna Wales,
on his financial prospects, from Thos. Dashwood concerning
Mr St. Lo; to Lady Susanna from her sister-in-law Elizabeth
Charter enclosing bill from Hayden of Oxford Street for
scarves, to her from her sister-in-law Anne Malet. (27 items)
181 1798-1801 Diary or memoranda book of Sir Charles Malet covering stay
at Walford, Bath and Tirhill, Somerset with account of visit to
Bath abbey, marriage 17 Sep 1799, problems over his wife's
parentage, setting up home at Harthill Park, birth of his son
Alexander, 23 July 1800, correspondence with the East India
Co., also includes accounts, list of silver and at back a list of
books wanted; loose items include draft agreement with
Momen Khan [1780?], sample of cloth from Henry Morgan,
Newtown, Wales. (1 vol.)
182 1780, 1802-1804 Diary or memoranda book of Sir Charles Malet includes
accounts, brief index to previous volume, list of servants and
at back a brief index; loose draft proposals concerning port of
Gogo and other Indian matters. (1 vol.)
183 1805-1808 Diary or memoranda book of Sir Charles Malet at Wilbury,
Southampton, London and Bath includes accounts, list of
servants, carriages and horses, births of sons George 1805
and Arthur, 1806, notes on international news and at back
note on gaols and unsuitability of clothiers to be JPs. (1 vol.)
184 1808-1811 Diary or memoranda book of Sir Charles Malet includes
accounts, visit to Taunton and Weymouth, christening of son
Hugh, 1808, birth and death of a son 1809 and birth and
christening of son Octavius 1811; loose tithe account, letter
concerning a proposed visit to Wilbury and tax account for
1809. (1 vol.)
185 1812-1815 Diary or memoranda book of Sir Charles Malet includes
accounts, visits to London and Bath, birth of son Alfred 1814;
many loose items including accounts, agreement for a water
channel, agreement to surrender a tenement at Newton Tony
memorandum by his sister Mrs Dansey concerning her burial
and monument at Combe Florey 1795, coloured sketch of a
lady ?Susanna, printed advertisement for cure for scurvy etc.,
inventory of ?tack room and of a farmyard 1802, minutes for
guidance of under sheriff c. 1807, draft marriage settlement
for illegitimate daughter Eliz and Revd. Robert Ekins,
expenses of running Wilbury 1803, English-Arabic vocabulary.
(1 vol.)
186 1802 Papers concerning the purchase of Wilbury, Wilts and
marriage of Elizabeth Wales and Charles Lucas including
letters from Townley Ward concerning bonds and settlements
and from Geo Rooke concerning taking over tenancy of
Hartham. (12 items)
187 1803 Letters from Townley Ward concerning bonds and
settlements, from Geo Rooke concerning taking over tenancy
of Hartham, and game and gamekeeper's certificates for
Wilbury. (10 items)
188 1804 Letters from Townley Ward concerning Graves family and
mortgages on Wilbury.
(7 items)
189 1805 Letters from Townley Ward concerning Wilbury, copy of letter
to Lord Chancellor concerning ownership of the estate;
account of Rebecca Hiscock abandoned by her husband who
had marries again in London after faking suicide. (6 items)
190 1806 Letters from Townley Ward, papers concerning purchase of
further property in Newton Tony, Wilts from Francis Egerton,
its valuation and the boundaries, letters relating to tenancies
and rents, estimate of tithes due on Wilbury, letter regarding
lunacy of Mr St. Lo. (15 items)
191 1807 Letters from Townley Ward concerning the purchase from Mr
Egerton, with accounts, and loan to Lord Poulett, papers
concerning boundary disputes at Newton Tony with owner of
Quarley manor, Hants. (20 items)
192 1808 Letters and accounts from Townley Ward concerning loan to
Lord Poulett etc., papers concerning boundary disputes at
Newton Tony and other estate matters including valuation of
Wilbury. (38 items)
193 1808-1809 Bills, receipts and correspondence concerning the Wilbury
estate including disputes over tithes, inventory of fixtures in
house bought from Mr Egerton and further papers in dispute
over boundary including statement concerning old county
boundary stone; account of Anna Wales at Bombay; letter
concerning a drum and arms; papers relating to marriage
settlement of Eliz. Forbes to the Marquis de Montalembert of
which Sir Charles is a trustee; copy of memorial inscription to
Lord Chatham by his wife. (64 items)
194 1809-1810 Letters, bills and receipts relating to Wilbury estate, letters
concerning death of Townley Ward, letter from Edw. Boucher
at Wiveliscombe concerning money owed by Sir John
Trevelyan to Sir Charles possibly misapplied by Thomas
Charter, Sir Charles's brother-in-law; The Star 13 June 1810
concerning Wiltshire Militia commanded by Sir Charles;
agreement between Sir Charles and Richard Cox concerning
boundary of their estates; letter from Geo. Emmett at
Laugharne, Carms condoling with Sir Charles on the death of
a baby, letter referring to gift of salmon. (43 items)
195 1815 Correspondence of Lady Susanna Malet and Joshua Uhthoff
with J. Huddlestone and others concerning employment for
her sons in the East India Co., from Mr Hinxman concerning a
bailiff, letter from the bishop of Salisbury concerning Sir
Charles's burial, letters and papers relating to Wilbury estate
including tithe matters, valuations of pictures and books, two
inventories of books including about 50 volumes of Persian
manuscripts and about 50 folios of letters relating to Sir
Charles's residence in India, inventory of Wilbury farm, estate
correspondence including letters from Lord Folkestone and
Capt. Dansey concerning sales of horses, letter from John
Whittle brickmaker of West Tytherley demanding payment;
legacy duty and annuity receipts. (41 items)
196 1801 Envelope containing a lock of his mother's hair. (1 item)
197 n.d.
[C18] A cipher. (1 doc.)
198 1808, 1811-1812 Papers relating to Newton Tony tithes, parish rate, work on
workhouse, bills and receipts for Wilbury; letter from Townley
Ward [1808] concerning loan to Lord Poulett, letters from a
former colleague James Forbes including a dedication of his
book Oriental Memoirs to Sir Charles; accounts of Margaret
Wales at Bombay and payments on East India Co. loans
correspondence with Lord Weymouth and Jacob Bosanquet
and copy letters relating to Sir Charles's candidacy for the
government of Bombay. (39 items)
199 1772 Memo book kept by Charles Malet in India including lists of
clothing, descriptions of places, jottings in several languages,
cash accounts, notes on Indian history, recipes for horse
medicines; note by Charles on English failure to understand
Indians in wrapper by Sir Edward (d. 1990)
(3 items)
200 1781 Account of a tiger hunt. (1 doc.)
201 1776, 1971 Memoirs of the Maratta Empire and various Indian matters by
Sir Charles, one a photocopy; notes by Sir Edward (d. 1990)
(7 items)
202 1755-6 Extracts from reports and correspondence of Secret and
Select Cttees of East India Co. at Bombay - matters include
capture of Gherea and negotiations with Nana Phadnaris.
[NRA EIC/1/1] (1 bundle)
203 1757-1795 Copy articles of agreement between E. India Co. and
Bugwandrew concerning trade at Bancote, the salt trade,
customs charges on grain, dues on animals, slaves, timber,
undertaking to return runaway slaves, care of river banks etc.,
15 Apr. 1757 [NRA EIC/1/2]
Copy of proposals of the Peshwa on capture of Surat Castle,
to be given into the possession of the English, 1759 [NRA
EIC/1/3]
Copy of Treaty between E. India Co. and Nizam Ally Khan of
the Deccan concluded at Fort St. George 23 Feb. 1868 [NRA
EIC/1/5]
Extracts from Treaty of Poorundur between E. India Co. and
Maharatta state, 1 Mar. 1771 [NRA EIC/1/6]
Copy of a Treaty between the E. India Co and the Maharaja
Lenkindar Bahadre 1779 [NRA EIC/1/7]
Copy of translation of articles of agreement between E. India
Co. and Seremunt Mhaderon Narrain Pundit Purdham, n.d.
[1779] [NRA EIC/1/8]
Copy agreement with Madaju Scindia to deliver up a fort at
Bombay,
n.d. [1779] [NRA EIC/1/9]
Copy of treaty between E. India Co and Tutti Singh Rao
concerning partition of Gujerat and other matters, 26 Jan
1780 [NRA EIC/1/10]
Printed copy in English and Persian of the treaty of Salbai
between the E. India Co. and the Marattahs (17 May 1782,
ratified by the Peshwa Dec. 1782) 1783 [NRA EIC/1/11]
Copy of a treaty further to the above 1783 [NRA EIC/1/12]
Copy of a further treaty, 1783 [NRA EIC/1/13]
Printed copy of preliminary articles of peace between England
and France signed at Versailles, 20 Jan. 1983 [NRA EIC/1/14]
Copy of peace treaty of Mangalore between E. India Co and
Nabob Tippoo Sahib, 11 Mar 1784 [NRA EIC/1/15]
Copies of the Calcutta Gazette, 17-18 May 1787 (2 items)
[NRA EIC/1/16a-b]
Copy of treaty between E. India Co. and the Nawab of the
Carnatic, 24 Feb 1787 [NRA EIC/1/17]
Printed copy of Convention between Kings of Great Britain
and France relating to E. Indies trade, Versailles, 31 Aug.
1787 [NRA EIC/1/18]
Printed copies of treaty of commerce between E. India Co and
the Nawab of Oudh, 1788 [NRA EIC/1/19a-b]
Printed treaty arranged by Charles Warre Malet between the
E. India Co. and Rao Pundit Purdham concerning the forts of
Gingera, 6 Jun. 1791 [NRA EIC/1/20]
Printed treaty between E. India Co. and Rajah of Colapore
concerning latter's debt to Co. and MS copy, 25 Nov. 1792
[NRA EIC/1/21, 23]
Copies of proposed treaty between E. India Co. and Rajah of
Travencore, 17 Nov. 1795 [NRA EIC/1/22, 24] (1 bundle)
204 1767-77 Extracts from the official diary of Thomas Mostyn, E. India Co.
representative at Poonah including his instructions, accounts
and copies of documents. [NRA EIC/1/4] (1 bundle)
205 1776-1809 File of notes, some loose, by Benedicta, Lady Malet on Sir
Charles Warre Malet and the E. India Co., inventory of his
letter books. (1 file, 9 items)
206 1795-1801 Copies and extracts of correspondence with the East India
Co., Lord Cornwallis and others concerning Sir Charles's
governorship of Bombay etc. (9 docs)
207 1779-1789Account of a cheetah hunt 1781; letter from Charles to his
brother-in-law Lt. Col. Wm. Dansey [1789] concerning his
finances; correspondence with Edw. Montagu and H. Lyte
concerning purchase of a baronetcy. (5 items)
208 1790-1799, 1806 MS and typed copies of extract of letter from Hen. Dundas to
W. Grenville concerning grant of Baronetcy, letters and copies
of letters relating to Indian affairs, copy/draft letter relating to
sale or lease of properties including St Audries and Tirril
{?Tirhill}, memo from John Bellasis to Sir Charles concerning
Hutchins' History of Dorset and the ruling family of Peshwa;
letters and accounts relating to Sir Charles's funds in England
and India; accounts of James Wales in India and in England
including sales of paintings; letters and papers relating to
estate of Susanna Wales and her sisters; legal account for
letting Hartham Park; copies of marriage settlements of Sir
Charles and Susanna Wales dau. of James Wales of
Bombay, dec'd; extracts relating to a painting of a durbar in
1790 including letters made by Sir Charles in 1806; inventory
of jewels, clothing, servants, animals including 66 camels and
an elephant presented to Charles.
(24 items)
209 1790-1794,
1800-1801 Letters and papers relating to Sir Charles's retirement form
the East India Co. including his memos of his achievements,
testimonials in his favour; letter from Baroness Montalembert
whose husband has been commanded to join Lord Wm.
Bentinck; letter from Chas. James concerning lease of a
house [?Harthill]; correspondence with Hoare's; sheet of
verses some in Greek; wrapper with note of Irish festivals. (26
items)
210 1799-1845 Will of Sir Charles Malet of Walford, Som. January 1799
providing for his illegitimate children by Bebee Amber Cooer,
Eliza, Henry and Louisa, and his Indian servants, another will
of September 1799 following his marriage with later
amendments, another will of July 1804 providing for his
legitimate and illegitimate children and copy will of 1814 ;
executors' accounts, correspondence etc, inventories of
china, jewellery and plate, farm stock, and investments,
record of sales at Wilbury 1822 legal opinions concerning
trust property and interment of Sir Charles, Sir Alexander's
receipts for family jewellery and plate lent him by his mother. (
26 items)
211 1965-1985 Correspondence of Sir Edward Malet (d. 1990) with Dr Mildred
Archer of the India Office Library, P.P. Mhasawade, V.D.
Divekar of Poona, Dr Maurice Shellim and others concerning
the Sir Charles Malet's Indian career and painting of his
horses by Sartorius; a copy of an estimate of the cost of
renting a country house c. 1790; papers relating to sale of
drawings by James Wales, father-in-law of Sir Charles and to
the Royal Institution of which Sir Charles was a founder
member. (70 items)
212 1968-1970 Correspondence relating to the sale by Sir Edward Malet to
the India Office Library of Sir Charles Malet's papers with list
of letter books made in 1927 and lists of papers made by Sir
Edward 1927. (50 items)
213 1973-1984 Correspondence with Sir Edward Malet (d. 1990) and the
India Office Library concerning the India Exhibition at Brighton
for which he had lent items relating to Sir Charles Malet's
Indian career and a History of India to be published by
Thames and Hudson; booklet of exhibition on Vanity at
Brighton; further correspondence concerning Sir Charles in
India including transcript of a firman, articles by V.D. Divekar
and photograph of a painting by Francis Sartorius of a string
of horses belonging to Sir Charles being exercised c. 1800.
(42 items)
214 1815-1841 Account book of Sir Charles's executors, mainly annuities to
his sons, his sisters Catherine (d. c. 1825) and Anne (d.
1836), his former mistress Bebee Amber Kooer (d. c. 1835)
and her daughters Eliza, wife of Revd. Rob. Ekins, and
Louisa, wife of Revd. Jas. Barrow, with note that Lady
Susanna resumed management of the estate in 1841. (1 vol.)
215 1815-1836 Account book of trustees of Sir Charles's second son,
Charles, a minor. (1 vol.)
216 1815-1836 Account book of trustees of third son, William. (1 vol.)
217 1815-1837 Account book of trustees of youngest son, Alfred. (1 vol.)
218 1791-1793 Account book, hardly used, relating to unsatisfactory servant
Rob. Mabon, carriage and horses and household expenses in
India. (1 vol.)
219 1814-1817 Legacy duty papers, accounts and correspondence following
the death of her husband Sir Charles Warre Malet (d. 1815)
including land tax assessment and list of houses with owners,
occupiers and place of settlement for Newton Tony, Wilts.,
indemnity because the estate is insufficient to meet legacies
to sons, illegitimate daughter and sisters; bill for nails etc;
corconcerning payment of rent. (26 items)
respondence with John Bebb concerning an appointment
in India for one of her sons, letter from John Russel
requesting particulars of a cottage, letter from a tenant
877/3 1761-1762 Folder of letters relating to the sale of St. Audries, a charge of
£600 on the estate and on Tolland manor, and the claims of
Anne, widow of Baldwin Malet and Miss Smith; mainly
between Revd. Alexander Malet, Thomas Carew, Richard
Escott of Goathurst and John St. Albyn of Alfoxton.
[NRA EMC/1/1-19] (19 items)
878
6/6/2 1) Sir Chas. W. Malet, Bt. of Willbray House, Wilts.
2) Sir John Trevelyan
Reconveyance of mortgaged properties
1 Nov. 1809
6/6/1 1) Sir John Trevelyan, Bt.
2) Sir Charles Warre Malet, Bt. of Poonah, E.Indies
Mortgage of manors of Huish Champflower, and Woodadvent;
Woodadvent farm, and Yard farm in Nettlecombe; and Southwoods,
Togford and Vellow Wood farms in Stogumber to secure payment of
£16,000.
25 Dec. 1796.
"Sir Charles Warre Malet published his account of Ellora caves with drawings in 1794 and Mr. Salt made available detailed account of Kanheri and Salsette in 1806."
An interesting article on Sir Charles Malet's influence in India - http://www.macalester.edu/~icm9/purandare.html
About Maria St. Just of Wilbury Park:
May 27, 1990
Sincerely Theirs: Letters as Literature
By EDMUND WHITE
FIVE O'CLOCK ANGEL Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just, 1948-1982. With commentary by Maria St. Just.
hese letters provide us with the most cheerful, most tender, most civilized picture of Tennessee Williams we're likely to get. After so many lurid accounts of his drugging and drinking, his hustlers and hangers-on, his boorish ranting and egotistical sulks, at last we're provided with a 30-year-long record of a friendship that enables us to see the source of everything in his work that was lyrical, innocent, loving and filled with laughter.
To be sure, Maria St. Just brought out the best in Tennessee Williams. Charles Bowden, the producer of ''The Night of the Iguana,'' and his wife, Paula, remarked in a 1987 interview cited in ''Five O'Clock Angel'' that, ''Maria would arrive, and suddenly Tennessee would start to entertain, and be with those friends who were deeply his friends - not the fly-by-nights who, when Maria wasn't around, he was apt to be with. She brought a family feeling, a continuity.''
Perhaps the best proof of the richness and intimacy of their relationship is that it provoked jealousy in both her husband and Williams's companions, one of whom once sent a bill for $500 to the playwright because he'd had to endure several dinners with Lady St. Just.
Maria Britneva was born in Russia shortly after the Revolution. After her father's death she was brought to London where her grandparents already lived. She was raised in sometimes grand, sometimes precarious circumstances. She began her career as a ballet dancer as a young child, but a foot injury made her switch to acting. Though never a big star, she did act with the most important performers of the day. As a young woman in postwar London, attending a party at the home of John Gielgud, she spontaneously befriended an ill-at-ease American whose name she hadn't caught. They chatted, and soon admitted to each other that they had each been brought up by a grandmother.
The young man turned out to be Tennessee Williams; his first Broadway hit, ''The Glass Menagerie,'' was in rehearsal for a British production. The play didn't do so well in London, but Maria Britneva soon became the confidante Williams wrote to in the evening after his day's work - his ''Five O'Clock Angel,'' as he called her in a typically genteel, poetic periphrasis.
Although Williams preserved few of her letters (''Ah, dear child Tennessee was so sentimental . . . ,'' Gore Vidal said), she kept all of his, so we hear much more about his triumphs and sufferings than about hers. We can, of course, infer her side of the correspondence from his remarks, and fortunately she kept rough drafts of a few of her letters, which are so sprightly and gossipy it's hard to imagine she actually worked them up.
Such fastidiousness as drafting letters, however, typifies the attention they lavished on every aspect of what they labeled their ''amitie amoureuse'' - their loving friendship. As Williams wrote in 1976 in a note intended to be added to the English edition of his autobiography, ''It is a delicate feeling, of course, and of course it is frangible and most certainly of all it must not be neglected. And yet it is long-suffering. It survives many unavoidable separations without disrepair, since it does not depend on physical presence as much as a carnal attachment. Extended absences of one from the other do not affect it, probably because these absences are a material element and this feeling that I call l'amitie has so little concern with material things.''
Those fools who've argued that Williams's female characters were based on men will be surprised to learn that Williams based Maggie in ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' on Maria and that he could write, ''I have had many close friendships with men which were without any sexual connotations, God knows. But I have found them less deeply satisfying than those I have had with a few women.'' These remarks, added to the brilliant observations Williams made about Blanche and Stella in his notes to the director of ''A Streetcar Named Desire,'' demonstrate his profound grasp of women's experience.
Neither Williams nor Maria St. Just had an easy time of it, if these letters are taken as evidence. Williams hoped that she would marry one of his best friends, his publisher James Laughlin, to whom this book is dedicated, but Mr. Laughlin couldn't make up his mind to take the plunge, abandoned his fiancee in the Mediterranean and left for India and Japan. The two correspondents speculate that the wealthy American might have been afraid the impoverished and impetuous young woman wanted to marry him for his considerable fortune. Maria Britneva subsequently married a despondent Englishman, Peter Grenfell, who became Lord St. Just and inherited Wilbury Park, the first Palladian house in England. He died in 1985.
On his side, the great love of Tennessee Williams's life was Frank Merlo, a prickly but intelligent and loyal man who advised Williams on his art and career and somehow acted as a keel to steady this otherwise out-of-control ship. When Merlo died in 1963, Williams fell apart - he later referred to the 60's as his ''stoned age.'' A decade later he pulled himself together (there are very few extant letters from the 60's). When he did recover, he discovered that his new plays pleased the critics less and less often. He suffered from the terrible paradox of being acknowledged as America's greatest living playwright - whose new work was universally ridiculed.
Maria St. Just gave Williams what Gertrude Stein said every genius needs: praise. She became an informal agent for him in England, informal because she never accepted a fee, and she is now the co-trustee of his estate. She steadfastly defended a brilliant but neglected play, ''Out Cry,'' which was dedicated to her.
The only text she criticized outright was his autobiography - and that, possibly, because he unaccountably left her out of it, or nearly so. ''Five O'Clock Angel'' fills in that missing chapter with a detailed, living, breathing account of their laughter and gaiety. They give pet names to all their friends. John Gielgud becomes ''the Old One,'' Frank Merlo ''Little Horse'' (because of his big teeth) and Robert Carroll, one of Williams's hopped-up psycho boyfriends, ''the Twerp'' (his earlier sobriquet was ''the Enfant Terrible'').
As sentimental and amused as characters in a Noel Coward play, but without the brittleness, in their letters Maria St. Just and Tennessee Williams provide us with a stylish, brave vision of friendship and its rugged staying power.
Edmund White, the author of the novels ''A Boy's Own Story'' and ''The Beautiful Room Is Empty,'' is writing a biography of Jean Genet.
A CONVENTIONAL PAGAN
April 15, 1966
Dearest Maria:
How sweet of you to write me, even from the Dowager's [Wilbury Park] where I doubt there is much else to do I think it is wonderful that she [Maria's mother-in-law] is coming around. It is hard to be severe with old ladies. I keep getting letters from my mother and forget to open them because almost invariably they contain a printed prayer that she thinks appropriate to my pagan way of life which has actually become so conventional that it would bore even a mother.
I have been to a fine dental surgeon about my facial swelling. He took X-rays and today he told me that the swelling is probably caused by an impacted wisdom tooth - clearly visible in the X-rays - which is ''decalcifying.'' I am not altogether happy about this diagnosis because if it were the whole truth, I should think he would want to pull the tooth right out instead of telling me to go to Sicily - where I'm going next week - and forget about it. He gave me the name of a dental surgeon in London who he says is the dental surgeon ''to the Crown,'' and to whom I must fly if there is a sudden emergency - such as my face exploding in all four directions, I suppose. I always beg doctors to tell me the complete truth but for some reason I never feel that they do.
We leave here a week from today for Rome and then Taormina. The water will still be cold but preferable to the YMCA pool. We're taking Frankie's little Boston terrier Gigi along. She is an absolute genius compared to the long succession of English bull-dogs that preceded her.
-- From ''Five O'Clock Angel.''
http://www.albion.appstate.edu/content/14indx.htm Berlatsky, Joel, British Imperial Attitudes in the Early Modern Era: The Case of Charles Ware Malet in India, 139; (R), 75