Excerpt from The Register of Letters &C. Of the Governour and Company of Merchants of London Trading Into the East Indies, 1600-1619
But the Government both at home and in India might, I contended, still further promote the diffusion of a thorough knowledge of the rise and progress of the British Indian Empire, by encouraging private enterprise, firstly, in the facsimile repro duction of such graphic documents in their possession, or in that of private persons, as those photo-lithographed by Mr. W'illiam Griggs of Peckham in the journal of Indian Art for july, 1890, january and April, 1891, and july, 1892; secondly, in the publication, verbatim et literatirn, of selected series of the records, such as the Court Books or Court Minutes, and Original Corre spondence, after the manner of the publication, in 1886, by Mr. Henry Stevens, of Vermont, u.s., of the first volume [1599 1603] of the Court Books, under the title of The Dawn of British Trade to the East Indies and finally, by extending the utmost possible assistance to trained scholars of recognized literary capacity, who would be found willing to rewrite the history of British India. Or well-defined portions of it, direct from the stored muniments of Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, and the India Office.
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