The East India Company's accession to the Diwani in 1765 brought the Company's territorial frontiers to the foothills of the Himalayas. Since then, Company officials repeatedly attempted to seek passage to Nepal and beyond. While the missions of William Kirkpatrick and Francis Buchanan Hamilton are well known, little is known about some of the earlier missions. This brief paper deals with one such mission led by a Company official by the name of George Foxcroft in 1783. Till recently, little was known about the fate of this mission. However research conducted at a number of archival holdings at Delhi, Patna, Calcutta and Kathmandu enabled the author to piece together the narrative of "Fastirap Saheb's" mission to Gorkha.
