He also kept extensive parliamentary diaries, of which six volumes survive, though his hand is nearly indecipherable.
Several of his publications are lost, but the fifteen volume Deipnosophistae mostly survives.
Yet a remarkable volume of incriminating documents do survive, testament to a system that believed its secrets would never become public.
Miraculously, this volume survived intact through the long decline of the Mughal dynasty.
Only the third and fifth volumes have survived, though the sixth volume has partly been reconstructed based on citations from later works.
Of the original 15 volumes, only the first 13 volumes, which cover up to 1754, have survived.
But these volumes survived shipping, the college kids who have volunteered here have tossed them around, and they're fine.
Only one volume survives, which deals with customs and organization of the Brethren and was first published in 1660.
The original volume has not survived, but it is thought that it still existed in Carolingian times, by the 7th-8th centuries.
Without such a system, the Board of Trade's share of total global trading volume would not survive at its present level.