Publication date 1893 The register of letters &c. of the Governour and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies, 1600-1619. Edited by Sir George Birdwood by East India Company; Birdwood, George Christopher Molesworth, Sir, 1832-1917; Foster, William, Sir, 1863-1951 Topics East India Company Publisher London B. Quaritch Authors: Sir George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood KCIE, CSI (8 December 1832 – 28 June 1917) was an Anglo-Indian official, naturalist, and writer. Sir William Foster CIE (19 November 1863 – 11 May 1951) was a British historiographer and civil servant who was Registrar and Superintendent of Records in the India Office. He was a member of the Hakluyt Society and was "the foremost authority on the detailed history of early British relations with India and other countries in Asia.