Talk:Spence's Hotel

Details missing

I am lacking the basic details of this place. It seems to have been established in one building then re-established in another location. I do not know where either location was or to what it corresponds now. Also other than the 1830 date I have no information about when it moved, or when the hotel was finally closed. The article cited in The Hindu says that no one knows when the hotel closed, but I even do not know within 100 years what they might mean. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:28, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Available sources

I think there is more information in the archives from which the photos came. I put a British Museum and a Metropolitan Museum of Art photo here - someone might examine the records for those photos more closely and get more information. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:28, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Jules Verne verification

Wikisource does not yet have a formatted copy of Jules Verne's The Steam House, but the draft in progress is at

• s:Index:Works of Jules Verne - Parke - Vol 12.djvu

Google has a copy of the book and relevant passage at

• https://books.google.com/books?id=lo_vEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT3808&lpg=PT3808

It says, "Before dawn, on the morning of our start, I left the Spencer Hotel, one of the best in Calcutta which I had made my residence ever since my arrival."

This connection is noted in various instances of travel literature including

• https://openthemagazine.com/lounge/books/check-in-check-out/
• http://heritagestructurewb.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-treasury-building-of-kolkata.html
• http://double-dolphin.blogspot.com/2014/05/spences-hotel-and-treasury-building.html

Open (Indian magazine) may be the most editorially established of these. Bluerasberry (talk) 16:57, 23 January 2024 (UTC)