Isabella L. Bird, The Golden Chersonese
M.C. Ricklefs, A History of Modern Indonesia
Brian Harrison, Holding the Fort
A.H. Hill (ed) The Hikayet Abdullah
John Bastin, William Farquhar Prince of Wales Island Gazette
John Bastin, John Leyden and Thomas Stamford Raffles
Rev James Morton, The Poetical Remains of the late Dr John Leyden
Edward Robarts’s ‘Narrative’ is quoted in Wartzburg
Countess of Minto (ed) Lord Minto in India
Lord Curzon British Government in India
Sir George Elliot, Memoir …
Chapter 4
John Bastin, John Leyden and Thomas Stamford Raffles
Annabel Teh Gallop, ‘Raffles and the Art of the Malay Letter’, BL lecture
Annabel Teh Gallup ‘Illumination: The Art of the Malay Letter’, Sydney lecture
Ahmat Adam (trs and notes) The Letters of Sincerity
Major William Thorn, The Conquest of Java
Captain William Taylor’s manuscript Letters and Journals
Sophia Raffles Memoir … for Raffles’ letters to Minto from Malacca
Wurtzburg for translation of the ‘Proclamation to the People of Java’
C.A. Gibson-Hill, ‘Raffles, Acheh, and the Order of the Golden Sword
Lee Kam Hing and Ahmat Adam ‘Raffles and the Order of the Golden Sword’
A,H, Hill (ed) The Hikayet Abdullah
Countess of Minto, Lord Minto in India
Sir George Elliot, Memoir …
Anthony Webster, The Richest East India Merchant
Syed Hussein Alatas, Thomas Stamford Raffles: Schemer or Reformer?
Joseph Conrad, The Shadow Line
Chapter 5
John Bastin, John Leyden and Thomas Stamford Raffles
John Bastin, Olivia Mariamne Raffles
John Bastin (ed) The Journal of Thomas Otho Travers 1813–1820. Post-1820 extracts from the Journal are from Wartzburg. Original not seen.
Major W. Thorn, The Conquest Of Java
Major W. Thorn, A Memoir of Sir R.R. Gillespie
Christopher Hibbert, George IV: Regent and King 1811–1830
Henry Newbolt’s ‘Gillespie’ in Collected Poems 1897–1907 (1910)
John Blakiston Twelve Years’ Military Adventure in Three Quarters of the Globe
Syed Hussein Alatas, Thomas Stamford Raffles: Schemer or Reformer?
Peter Carey (ed) The British in Java 1811–1816
Peter Carey ‘Sexuality and Power’
M.C. Ricklefs, A History of Modern Indonesia
John Bastin, ‘Raffles’s [sic] Aides-de-Camp in Java’
Tim Hannigan, ‘Sultans, Sepoys and Englishmen’
John Bastin, The Natural History Researches of Dr Thomas Horsfield
W.C. Mackenzie, Colonel Colin Mackenzie
Chapter 6
John Bastin, The Native Policies of Sir Stamford Raffles in Java and Sumatra
John Bastin, ‘The Working of the Early Land Rent System in West Java’
John Bastin (ed) The Journal of Thomas Otto Travers 1813–1820
Karl Marx ‘Division of Labour and Manufacture’ in Capital Vol. 1
Emily Hahn, Raffles of Singapore
Dirk van Hogendorp, Berigt …
Sir George Elliot, Memoir …
Major William Thorn, A Memoir of Sir R.R. Gillespie
W.C. Mackenzie, Colonel Colin Mackenzie
Java Government Gazette
Utbe Bosma and Remco Raben Being ‘Dutch’ in the East Indies 1500–1920
Nigel Bullough, ‘The Minto Stone’
Countesst of Minto (ed) Lord Minto in India
Rasheed El-Enany, Arab Representations of the Occident
Peter Carey (ed) The British in Java
Chapter 7
John Bastin, ‘The Raffles Gamelan’
Ronan Kelly, Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore
Marchioness of Bute (ed) The Private Journals of the Marquis of Hastings
W.C. Mackenzie, Colonel Colin Mackenzie
J.E. van Lohuizen-de Leeuw, ‘Which European First recorded the Unique Dvarapala of Barabudur?’
John Miksik, Borobudur: Golden Tales of the Buddha
Nigel Barley (ed) The Golden Sword
Clifford Geertz, The Religion of Java
R. Kowner, Skin as Metaphor
Utbe Bosma and Remco Raben Being ‘Dutch’ in the East Indies 1500–1920
Jean Gelman Taylor, The Social World of Batavia
Tim Hannigan, ’Sultans, Sepoys and Englishmen’
John Bastin, Olivia Mariamne Raffles
The Countess of Minto (ed) Lord Minto in India
David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Arnold Chapman, A St. Helena Who’s Who
Chapters 8 & 9
John Bastin (ed): The Journal of Thomas Otho Travers 1813–1820
Lady Gwendolen Ramsden, Correspondence of Two Brothers
Alfred Spencer (ed) Memoirs of William Hickey Vol. IV
Christopher Hibbert, George IV
Thomas Stamford Raffles Esq. B.A. etc (ed) Memoirs of the Life and Ministry of the Rev. Thomas Raffles
Rev. Thomas Raffles, ‘Reminiscences of Sir Stamford Raffles’ in John Bastin (ed) Letters and Books
Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder
John Gascoigne, Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment
John Bastin, Sophia Raffles
Andrew S.Cook, ‘William Marsden 1754–1836’ ODNB
Sir Reginald Coupland, Raffles of Singapore
The Rev. Thomas Raffles, Letters, During a Tour …
Thomas Sadler (ed) Crabb Robinson
Anna Letitia, le Breton Memoir of Mrs Barbauld
Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java
John Bastin, Sir Stamford Raffles’s History of Java: a Bibliographical Essay (which includes Raffles’ letters to Elton Hamond from Falmouth, from the Baker MSS at the Royal Asiatic Society)
Catalogue of the Antiquarian Book Fair 1990 (for the presentation copy of The History of Java to Mrs Sophia Hull, and Raffles’ inscription. The asking price was £35,000.)
Felix Felton, Thomas Love Peacock
Chapter 10
G.F. Davidson, Trade and Travel in the Far East
John Bastin (ed) The British in West Sumatra 1685–1825
Alan Harfield Bencoolen: The Christian Cemetery and the Fort Marlborough Monuments
John Bastin, Sophia Raffles John Bastin (ed) The Letters of Sir Stamford Raffles to Nathaniel Wallich 1819–24
John Bastin, ‘Sir Stamford Raffles and the Study of Natural History in Penang, Singapore and Indonesia’
H.J. Noltie, Raffles Ark Redrawn
‘Vegetable Titan’ (signed ‘B.’) The Saturday Magazine Vol. I 1833 (for Dr Arnold’s letter about the Great Flower)
Annual Register 1919 (for Salmond in Palembang and Raffles’ ‘Protest’ letters)
Anthony Webster, The Richest East India Merchant
John Anderson, Acheen and the Ports on the North and East Coasts of Sumatra
Chapter 11
C.R.,Buckley, An Anecdotal History of Olden Times in Singapore Vol. 1
C.D. Cowan (ed) Early Penang and the Rise of Singapore
Thomas Stamford Raffles B.A. etc (ed) Memoirs of the Life and Ministry of the Rev Thomas Raffles
John Anderson, Acheen and the Ports on the North and East Coasts of Sumatra
John N. Miksic, Archaeological Research on the ‘Forbidden Hill’ of Singapore
Lee Kip Lin, The Singapore House 1819–1942
The letter from TSR to John Taylor 9 June 1819 is in the National Library of Singapore
John Crawfurd, History of the Indian Archipelago
Sir John Barrow, An Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow
The online archive of the Quarterly Review is edited by Jonathan Cutmore
Chapter 12
The letter from TSR to Joseph Dart Febr
uary 1822 is in the National Archive of Singapore
Lee Kip Lin, The Singapore House 1988
Tan Sri Dato Mubin Sheppard (ed) Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society: Singapore 150 Years (reprints of JMBRAS articles, mostly undated)
John Bastin (ed); The Letters of Sir Stamford Raffles to Nathaniel Wallich 1819–24
Anthony Webster, The Richest East India Merchant 2009
T.H.H. Hancock, Coleman’s Singapore
John Crawfurd Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General of India. 1828
The Mission to Siam in the years 1821–2 from the Journal of the late George Finlayson
A.H. Hill (trs) The Hikayat Abdullah
Marchioness of Bute (ed) The Private Journal of the Marquess of Hastings
C.B. Buckley, An Anecdotal History of Olden Times in Singapore Vol. I
Nicholas A. Joukovsky (ed): The Letters of Thomas Love Peacock Vol. 1
Chapter 13
A.H. Hill (ed) Hikayat Abdullah
J.Bastin, William Farquhar
Singapore National Archives
Baron H.G. van Burgst Nahuis: typescript translations of extracts from his book are in the India Office Papers, BL
H. Temperley, Foreign Policy of Canning
Mrs A. Prinsep, Voyage from Calcutta to van Diemen’s Land
Chapter 14
John Bastin (ed): The Journal of Thomas Otho Travers 1813–1820
Documents concerning the founding of the Zoological Society and minutes of early meetings are in the Library of the Royal Zoological Society of London.
Thomas Stamford Raffles Esq. B.A. etc (ed) Memoirs of the Life and Ministry of the Rev. Thomas Raffles
P. Chalmers Mitchell, Centenary History of the Zoological Society of London 1929
Victoria & Albert Museum
J.C.M. Khoo, C.G. Kwa, L.Y. Khoo ‘The Death of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles’ Singapore Medical Journal Vol. 39 1998
Chapter 15
Castle Stewart Papers, Public Record office of Northern Ireland
‘The Red Book’: unpublished manuscript notes and family memories compiled by Stamford Raffles Flint (1847–1925), son of Jenny Rosdew and the Rev Charles Raffles Flint. In private hands
Augustus J.C. Hare, The Life and Letters of Frances Baroness Bunsen
John Bastin, William Farquhar
John Bastin, Sophia Raffles
Ivan Polunin and Kwa Chong Guan, The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings
H.J. Noltie, Raffles Ark Redrawn
Adam Smith, ‘On Colonies’ The Wealth of Nations 1776
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Abbreviations:
Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
JMBRAS
Bijdragen tot de Tal- ,Lan- en Volenkunde
KITLV
Selected documents
sel. docs
Printed Books, including monographs
Date of first publication is given unless a later one is materially significant. Though many of these books have never been reprinted, some – even the earliest and most obscure – are available as downloads. Place of publication is not given since this is easily determined on the internet if required, as are any later editions with notes and/or introductions. In the endnotes I have given only short titles.
Adam, Ahmat (trs. and notes) The Letters of Sincerity: The Raffles Collection of Malay Letters (1780–1824) A Descriptive Account MBRAS monograph 2009
Alatas, Syed Hussein Thomas Stamford Raffles: Schemer or Reformer? 1971
Anderson, John Mission to the East Coast of Sumatra in 1823 under the Direction of the Government of Prince of Wales Island 1826
—Acheen and the Ports in the North and East Coasts of Sumatra (1840) with intro by A.J.S. Reid 1971
Anson, A.E.H. About Myself and Others 1920
Barley, Nigel The Duke of Puddle Dock: In the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles 1991
—(ed.) The Golden Sword: Stamford Raffles and the East 1999
Barrow, Sir John An Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart. Late of the Admiralty 1847
Bastin, John The Native Policies of Sir Stamford Raffles in Java and Sumatra: An Economic Interpretation 1957
—The British in West Sumatra 1685–1965 (sel. docs) 1965
—The Letters of Sir Stamford Raffles to Nathaniel Wallich JMBRAS reprint 1981
—Olivia Mariamne Raffles (monograph) 2002
—Sophia Raffles (monograph) 2002
—Sir Stamford Raffles’s The History of Java: A Bibliographical Essay 2004
—William Farquhar: First Resident and Commandant of Singapore (monograph) 2005
—The Natural History Researches of Dr Thomas Horsfield (monograph) 2005
—John Leyden and Thomas Stamford Raffles (monograph) 2006
—(ed.) The Letters and Books of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles and Lady Raffles 2009
Bird, Isabella L. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither 1879
Blagden, C.O. (ed.) One Hundred Years of Singapore 1931
Blakiston, John Twelve Years’ Military Adventure in Three Quarters of the Globe, or, Memoirs of an Officer 1829
Bosma, Utbe and Remco Rabem (trs. Wendie Shaffer) Being ‘Dutch’ in the Indies 1500–1920 2008
Bowen, H.V. The Business of Empire: the East India Company and Imperial Britain 1756–1833 2006
Boulger, Demetrius Charles Life of Sir Stamford Raffles 1897
Buckley, C.B. An Anecdotal History of Olden Times in Singapore Vol. I 1902
Bute, Marchioness of (ed.) The Private Journals of the Marquess of Hastings 1858
Carey, Peter The British in Java 1811–1816: A Javanese Account. A text edition. English synopsis and commentary on BL Add Mss 12330 1992
Burgess, Anthony The Malayan Trilogy 2000
Chapman, Arnold A St Helena Who’s Who; or, a Directory of the Island during the Captivity of Napoleon 1914
Chaudhuri, K.N. (ed.) The Economic Development of India under the East India Company 1814–1858 1971
Coldham, Peter Wilson Child Apprentices in America from Christ’s Hospital 1617–1778 1990
Collis, Maurice Raffles 1966
Conrad, Joseph The Shadow Line 1917
Cook, J.A., Bethune Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles Founder of Singapore 1819 and Some of his Friends and Contemporaries 1918
Cotton, Sir Evan (ed. Charles Fawcett) East Indiamen 1949
Coupland, Sir Reginald Raffles of Singapore 1897, 3rd edn. 1946
Crawfurd, John History of the Indian Archipelago. Containing an Account of the Manners, Arts, Languages, Religions, Institutions, and Commerce of its Inhabitants, with Maps and Engravings 3 vols 1820
Curzon, Lord British Government in India 1925
Dalley, Jan The Black Hole: Money, Myth and Empire 2006
Dalrymple, William The White Mughals 2002
Davidson, G.F. Trade and Travel in Far East 1900
Dempster, Charlotte L. Hawkins Memoirs of My Time 1920
Devenish, R.J. and C.H. McLaughlin Historical and Genealogical Record of the Devenish Families 1948
Devine, T.M. Scotland’s Empire 1600–1815 2003
Dowden, Wilfred S. (ed.) The Letters of Thomas Moore 2 vols 1964
—(ed) The Journals of Thomas Moore 3 vols 1984
Egerton, H.E. Sir Stamford Raffles: England in the Far East 1900
El-Enany, Rasheed Arab Representations of the Occident: East-West Encounters in Arabic Fiction 2006
Elliot, Sir George Memoir of the Honble Sir George Elliot, Written for his Children 1853
Evans, John The Gentleman Usher: The Life and Times of George Dempster (1732–1818) Member of Parliament and Laird of Dunnichen and Skibo 2005
Faulkner, Thomas The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Hammersmith 1839
Felton, Felix Thomas Love Peacock 1973
Fergusson, James (ed.) Letters of George Dempster to Sir Adam Fergusson 1756–1813 with Some Account of his Life 1934
Finlayson, Geor
ge The Mission to Siam … in the years 1821–2: from the Journal of the late George Finlayson, Esq., Surgeon and Naturalist to the Mission. With a Memoir and Introduction by Sir S. Raffles FRS 1825
Flower, Raymond Raffles: The Story of Singapore 1984
Gascoigne, John Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment 1994
Geertz, Clifford The Religion of Java 1960
Gilmour, David The Ruling Class: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj 2005
Hahn, Emily Raffles of Singapore 1948
Hancock, T.H.H. Coleman’s Singapore 1986
Hare, Augustus J.C. The Life and Letters of Frances, Baroness Bunsen Vol. 1 1879, Vol. 2 1880
Harfield, Alan Bencoolen: The Christian Cemetery and the Fort Marlborough Monuments 1985
Harrison, Brian Holding the Fort: Melaka Under Two Flags 1795–1845 1985
Hibbert, Christopher George IV: Regent and King 1811–1830 1973
Hogendorp, Dirk van Berigt vanden Tegenswoordigen Toestand der Bataafsche Betzittingen in Oost-Indien 1799
Holmes, Richard The Age of Wonder 2008
Joukovsky, Nicholas A. (ed.) The Letters of Thomas Love Peacock Vol. 1 2001
Keay, John The Honourable Company 1991
Kelly, Ronan Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore 2008
King, Dean A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O’Brian’s Seafaring Tales 1995
Knight, David Humphry Davy: Science and Power 1992
Kowner, R. Skin as Metaphor: Early Racial Views on Japan 1548–1853 2004
Le Breton, Anna Letitia Memoir of Mrs Barbauld 1874
Lewis, Samuel (ed.) A Topographical History of England 1831
Liu, Gretchen Singapore: A Pictorial History 1819–2000 1999
Lee, Kip Lin The Singapore House 1819–1942 1988
Mackenzie, W.C. Colonel Colin Mackenzie: First Surveyor-General of India 1952
Madden, Paul Raffles: Lessons in Business Leadership 2003
Marsden, William The History of Sumatra 3rd edn 1811
Matheson, Virginia and Barbara Watson (annotated trs.) The Precious Gift by Raja Ali Haji ibn Ahmad 1982
Marx, Karl Capital Vols 1 & 2 1867 & 1885 (trs. Eden and Cedar Paul) 1928
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