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During his last voyage back to England, the ship of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781–1826) caught fire, consuming many of the papers from which future biographers might have worked. When he died two years later, the task of sifting through the surviving materials and recording his life and career fell to his widow Sophia (1786–1858). Her substantial biography, first published in 1830, remains an essential source of information about one of the key figures of British colonialism in the East Indies. At the centre of the book, interspersed with many of her husband's letters, is Raffles' struggle against his Dutch opponents, with whom he clashed on ideological grounds - he noted with distaste their mistreatment of the local population and their advocacy of slavery. It was this rivalry which convinced Raffles to found Singapore as a trading post. His two-volume History of Java (1817) is also reissued in this series

Published in 1834-35 under the title: History of the British colonies. ; Each volume has also special t.-p. ; Continued--v. 6. Nova Scotia, cape Breton, the Sable islands, New Brunswick, Prince Edward island, the Bermudas, Newfoundland, &c., &c. 1837.-v. 7. British possessions in the Mediterranean: comprising Gibraltar, Malta, and the Ionian islands. 1837.--v. 8-9. Possessions of the honourable East India company. 1837.--v. 10. British possessions in the Indian & Atlantic oceans: comprising Ceylon, Penang, Malacca, Singapore, the Falkland islands, St. Helena, Ascension, Sierra Leone, the Gambla, cape Coast Castle, &c., &c. 1837. ; v. 1. Upper and lower Canada. 2d ed. 1838.--v. 2. Austral-Asia: comprising New South Wales., Van Diemen's island, Swan river, South Australia, &c. 2d ed. 1839.--v. 3. Southern Africa: comprising the cape of Good Hope, Mauritlus, Seychelles, &c. 2d ed. 1843.--v. 4. West Indies: comprising Jamacia, Honduras, Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada, the Bahamas, and the Virgin isles. 1836.--v. 5. West Indies: comprising British Guiana, Barbadoes, St. Vincent's, St. Lucia, Dominica, Montserrat, Antigua, St. Christoper's &c., &c., 1837. ; Mode of access: Internet.