Papers, including printed official papers, on food situation in India especially in Bengal, including matters regarding Government agents for the purchase of food grain, public health and food supply in the famine affected area in Orissa, and a minute on Macdonald's functions as Special Officer i...
Letters from Macdonald while serving in India to his family - mother, father, sister and aunts in Edinburgh, including a letter written at beginning of his voyage to India.
Miscellaneous personal papers of Macdonald including a letter from Basil Williams (his University lecturer) before he joined ICS, standing orders of Bihar Light Horse, rules of Balasore Station Club (1922) and copies of telegrams and cables.