Laurence Sulivan (1713-86) was director of the British East India Company. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Papers of Laurence Sulivan and of his son Stephen, consisting of:

• Letters to Laurence Sulivan, 1761-84, with letters to Stephen Sulivan, 1775-84
• Sulivan family papers, including letters and drafts of letters, with accounts and papers of Laurence Sulivan, 1756-62, and verse by Stephen Sulivan, 1790-1813

The papers were bought at Sotheby's in 1969.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 40019-20.

See also Papers of Laurence Sulivan. There are also sixteen letters to Laurence Sulivan, 1763-82 (MS. Eng. hist. b. 237, see http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/single-items/single-items.html under 'Correspondence').

Sulivan | Laurence | 1713-1786 | Director East India Co

Sulivan | Stephen | fl 1775-1813