Brief guide to manuscripts collections| William L. Clements Library The University of Michigan Clements R. Markham Papers |
Markham spent several years in the navy and traveled in South America before he entered the civil service, working in the India Office. In 1860 he collected cinchona trees and seeds from Peru and planted them in India. From 1867 to 1877 he was in charge of geographical work in the India Office. He accompanied Napier on the Abyssinian expedition and helped stimulate the revival of Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. Markham retired from public life in 1877 and devoted himself to geographical and historical interests. He published 50 volumes of biography and ethnohistory and translated many accounts of Spanish explorations.
Manuscripts collected by Sir Clements R. Markham, British geographer, historical writer.
This collection contains letters and essays concerning the introduction of cinchona in India, coffee-planting in the district of Wynaad, cotton in Peru, ipecacuanha in Brazil, pearl fisheries in Tinnevelly, irrigation in Madura, docks at Suez and Bombay, tribes along the Amazon, and Arctic exploration. A translation of Villavicencio's plan of the River Napo is also included.
Purchased, 1925
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