Come and ask, answer or inform.
Embraces correspondence with almost all the Company's overseas agents, factories and presidencies including those in the following areas: India, China, Japan, Persia and the Gulf, Red Sea, Mocha, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Siam, West Africa, St Helena, Europe and the Levant.
Letters received are bound in the series known as 'Original Correspondence' (1602-1712); copies or drafts of out-letters are entered in 'Despatch Books' (1626-1753), and in 'Drafts of Despatches' volumes (1703-1753).