Including:

1) Note from Robert Oxford, with attached quarto sheets, together with a review of K. N. Chaudhuri 'The English East India Company: the study of an early joint-stock company, 1600-1640' (Cass: London, 1965). Four typed sheets and nine manuscript pages in D. K. B.'s hand.

2) Chapter 1: The years of apprenticeship, 1600-1613. Ts., 46ff., fcp.

3) Chapter 2. (No title: events of 1613-1620). Ts., 44ff., fcp., + 5ff. of another draft + ms.1f. notes

4) Chapter 3: Batavian interlude, 1620-1628. Ts., 27ff., fcp.

5) Chapter 4: The Batavian Presidency: problems of administration and supply. Ts., 43ff., A4 (carbon copy) + a letter of Colin E. Franklin of Routledge & Kegan Paul, publishers, London (5 Dec 1960)

6) Chapter 5: The pepper trade, 1628-1653. Ts., 45ff., A4

7) Chapter 6: A period of stagnation, 1652-1659. Ts., 12ff. = 24pp. A4

8) Bantam, 1628-1652: investment and administration. Ts., 8ff. = 16pp. A4

9) Bantam, 1628-1653: the pepper trade. Ts., 10ff. = 20pp. A4

10) Tabulated statistics of shipping to Bantam, from October 1658 to March 1681/2. Ts., 22ff., double foolscap, carbon copy

11) Summaries of documents from March 1658 to March 1675. 43 typed slips, 10x16.5 cm