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↑ Up one levelLetter from the Reverend Dr. Stevenson on [Samashtian] Coins
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Reference code
GB 891 RAS GOV7-RAS GOV7/4
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Published
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1 page handwritten
Date(s)
- 14th Oct 1846 (Creation)
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Name of creator
_Stevenson_
_John_
_1798-1858_
Biographical history
John Stevenson was born in Alton Campsie, Stirlingshire, on 3 November 1798 He trained as a minister becoming a missionary in India and an Indologist. After ordination in 1823 he was sent by the Scottish Missionary Society to their new Bombay Mission, and was a Missionary in Pune until appointed, in 1834, as Chaplain of the East India Company in Bombay, as Senior Chaplain in 1841, and Minister of St. Andrews. He resigned in 1854 and returned to Britain becoming Parish Minister of Ladykirk in Berwickshire from 1855-58.
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Royal Asiatic Society Archives
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Scope and content
'Copy of a letter from the Reverend Dr. Stevenson, addressed to Colonel Sykes, dated Poona (Pune), 14 October 1846, on [Samashtian] Coins'. Stevenson explains how the coins were found in an uncultivated field and brought to auction in Pune. He bought 100. He is sending some of the them to Sykes. He describes the coins and transcribes some of the inscriptions.
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