The Diary must for the present be considered as an official document, which may be perused, but cannot be published wholly or in part without the sanction of Government previously obtained.' [1] Eighteen copies of the Diary were so printed and were coarsely bound by a local binder.

Of these copies twelve were distributed as follows, one to each person or authority: Government, Calcutta; Court of Directors; Governor-General; Chairman of Court of Directors; Deputy Chairman; brother of author; five children of author, one each (5); Col.

Sykes, Director E.I.C.
A Memorandum of Errata was put up along with some of the copies distributed.

(_Private Correspondence,_ Journey, _vol._ 2, _pp._ 357, 393, _under dates 4 April, 1852, and 12 Jan., 1853._) The Bodleian copy, purchased in June, 1891, was that belonging to Mrs, (Lady) Sleeman, and bears her signature 'A.

J.Sleeman' on the fly-leaf of each volume.