Collection of papers relating to Elihu Yale, 1671-1704Yale, Elihu, 1649-1721englatManuscript correspondence, 1674-1698; accounts and invoices, 1680-1700 and undated, including accounts kept at Fort Saint George and accounts relating to Yale's activities in the diamond trade; and legal documents, 1671-1704 and undated, relating to the East India Company, Fort Saint George, and DenbighshireBox 1 contains autograph letters, signed, to Yale from Richard Elford and Theophilus Yale; a manuscript letter, signed, from Yale to Elford; accounts and invoices; and a printed oath of allegiance to the East India Company, undated. Box 2 contains oversize autograph letters, signed, to Yale from Elford, Thomas Gomersall, O. Neale, and David Yale; oversize accounts and invoices; Yale's commission as high sheriff of Denbighshire, circa 1704; and an unidentified legal document. Box 3 contains a bond posted by Yale before leaving for India, printed and completed in manuscript, 1671; an agreement signed by Yale relating to his marriage to Catharine Hynmers, 1680; Yale's commission by the East India Company, 1686; and an unidentified legal document. Box 4 contains an unidentified legal documentOfficial of the East India Company. Elihu Yale was sent to Fort Saint George, Madras, in 1672, where he served as a member of the council and as second in command to the governor. He became president and governor of Fort Saint George in 1687. After returning to England in 1699, Yale worked in the diamond trade and in 1704 was named high sheriff of Denbighshire, in Wrexham, Wales. In 1718 the Collegiate School at New Haven, Connecticut, changed its name to Yale College in acknowledgement of a large private contribution made by Elihu Yale.Portions available on microfilmIn English, with some legal material in Latin.