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James Dennison Fonds
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- Source of title proper: Title based on creator of material in fonds.
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Fonds
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CA RBD MSG 26
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1816-1817 (Creation)
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Physical description
6.5 cm of textual records
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Scope and content
Fonds consists of a journal kept by Lord William Pitt Amherst's coachman, James Dennison, while traveling to China on a diplomatic mission to the Qing court in China in 1816. Included is an account of the loss of the ship H.M.S. Alceste in the Straits of Gaspar.
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English
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Also described in the McGill Libraries catalogue.
Also described in: McGill University Library, Special Collections I. European & American Manuscripts (Montreal, 1962). Non-Canadian History, 32.
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H65.Bd26