Collection of papers relating to Elihu Yale, 1671-1704

Manuscript 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 Denbighshire

Box 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 document