India. Group of signed letters and documents, 18th-20th century

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India. Group of signed letters and documents, 18th-20th century, including:
1) Cotton (Stapleton, 1st Viscount Combermere, 1773-1865). Printed document signed as commander-in-chief, India, 30 January 1828, commissioning H. W. Wood lieutenant 'in the King's Army in the East Indies only', splitting along folds,
2) Gholam Mohumed (1795-1872). Letter signed to political superintendent Colonel George Verner, Russapagla, 3 April 1872, ‘I have the honor to forward to you a copy of a trust deed which I have executed for and on account of the charitable fund and which I wish you to forward to the commissioners of Mysore to be deposited, as a record, in his office’, damp-staining,
3) Staveley (Samuel, ?-1762). Manuscript document signed as chaplain at Fort St George, Madras, 27 December 1758, last will and testament, naming Henry Vansittart and Daniel Morse as executors, remains of seal, browned, backed on clear plastic with clear tape-reinforcement along old folds,
4) Supreme Court of Judicature, Fort William, Calcutta. Manuscript petition relating to the estate of Carr Nimmo deceased, 3 May 1817, signed by Sir James Weir Hogg (1790-1876), Sir Edward Hyde East (1764-1847), and one other, ink corrosion,
5) Michell (William, ?-?). Manuscript document signed East India Company resident at Negapatam and Nagore, Negapatam, 21 December 1792, settling a property dispute involving the Dutch Orphan Society, illustrated with a relevant, diagram, ink corrosion,
and 12 similar items, including a George Canning signed free front, two 18th-century letters in Dutch, and a few typed administrative letters from the 1930s, most items in the lot rather browned or stained, many with splits, tears, and other condition issues, foolscap and other formats

(Qty: 17)

Provenance: private collection, India.

Gholam Mohumed (see item 2) was a son of Tipu Sultan.