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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C834
Title:: Waltraud Ernst papers.
Scope & Content:: `Race, madness and colonial communities during the time of the East India Company's administration of India': paper by Dr Waltraud Ernst, Dept of Sociology and Social Policy, Univesity of Southampton.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1998
Extent:: 1 folder

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C835
Title:: `Of merchants, migrants and missionaries: the many faces of imperial discourse': three papers on this theme given at a conference on `The British Encounter with indigenous peoples'.
Scope & Content:: `Of merchants, migrants and missionaries: the many faces of imperial discourse': three papers on this theme given at a conference on `The British Encounter with indigenous peoples'.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1997
Extent:: 1 folder

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C836
Title:: English translation of an agreement relating to the financing of a voyage to India from L'Orient, including the purchase, fitting out, cargo and victualling of a new ship then on the stocks. Apparently a venture involving both English and French parties. Arrangements for payments in London, France and Madras are detailed as are the Captain, supercargo and responsibility for officering.
Scope & Content:: English translation of an agreement relating to the financing of a voyage to India from L'Orient, including the purchase, fitting out, cargo and victualling of a new ship then on the stocks. Apparently a venture involving both English and French parties. Arrangements for payments in London, Fra...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1776
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C837
Title:: Vincent Alexander Ormsby papers.
Scope & Content:: `Battalion in Tirah': unpublished account, dated Nov 1899, of the Tirah campaign 1897-98, by Capt (later) Brig Vincent Alexander Ormsby 1865-1917), Indian Army 1885, 1st Battalion, 3rd Gurkha Rifles; also an account of his life, mainly up to 1902, compiled by Ruth Fell from a memoir left by him a...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1865-1902
Extent:: 1 folder

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C838
Title:: Keith Haines papers.
Scope & Content:: 'The Looted Paradise': unpublished biography, dated 1998, by Keith Haines of (William) Arthur Moore (1880-1962), journalist, assistant editor 1924, and editor 1933-42, of the 'Statesman', Calcutta.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1900-1951
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C839
Title:: Thomas Warren Mercer papers.
Scope & Content:: A few papers of Maj-Gen Thomas Warren Mercer (d 1910), Bengal Army 1842-77, including a statement of service, his will, and a petition from his widow Edith to the Secretary of state for India for financial help.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1906-1911
Extent:: 1 folder

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C840
Title:: Alan B Maddocks papers.
Scope & Content:: `India Revisited': an account of a trip to India in 1985 by Alan Maddocks to commemorate the jubilee of the foundation of the Indian Artillery in which he served as a subaltern 1942-45; also three letters, dated 1945, from his orderly and two soldiers with whom he had served.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1945-1985
Extent:: 1 folder

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C841
Title:: Henry Thomas Colebrooke papers.
Scope & Content:: Letters (in French) from August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1767-1845) oriental scholar to Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765-1837), oriental scholar, Bengal Civil Service 1783-1814, Member of Governor General's Council 1807-12.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1821-1828
Extent:: 1 portfolio

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C842
Title:: Ahmat bin Adam papers.
Scope & Content:: 'A descriptive Account of the Malay Letters sent to Thomas Stamford Raffles in Malacca in 1810 and 1811 by the Rulers of the Indigenous States of the Malay Archipelago': submitted in part fulfillment for University of London M. A. degree by Ahmat bin Adam. See Mss Eur D742/1 for the original let...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1971
Extent:: 1 portfolio

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C843
Title:: Sir William James Herschel papers.
Scope & Content:: List of token signatures of those who cannot write or read compiled for Sir William James Herschel, 2nd Bart (1833-1917), Bengal Civil Service (1853-78), by an office clerk at Midnapore, Bengal: e.g. a small drawing of scales for a shopkeeper, or a cleaver for a butcher.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1865
Extent:: 1 portfolio

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