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Letter, from Chief Governor and Counsel of India of Batavia to the Directors of the East India Company of the United Netherlands, dated at Passau

Reference number: EL/M1/67

Date: 31 July 1672

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Account about the East India Company in the Far East - about the movement of ships, merchants and commodities
Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

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EL/M1/67
Earliest possible date
31 July 1672
Page extent
26 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, from Chief Governor and Counsel of India of Batavia to the Directors of the East India Company of the United Netherlands, dated at Passau, 31 July 1672, EL/M1/67, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_m1_67/letter-from-chief-governor-and-counsel-of-india-of-batavia-to-the-directors-of-the-east-india-company-of-the-united-netherlands-dated-at-passau, accessed on 11 February 2026

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