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21942. Mss Eur C835
- 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
21943. Mss Eur C836
- 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
21944. Mss Eur C837
- 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- `Battalion in Tirah': unpublished account, dated Nov 1899, of the Tirah campaign 1897-98, by Capt (later) Brig Vincent Alexander Ormsby 1865-1917), Indian Army 1885, 1st Battalion, 3rd Gurkha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
21945. Mss Eur C838
- 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- 'The Looted Paradise': unpublished biography, dated 1998, by Keith Haines of (William) Arthur Moore (1880-1962), journalist, assistant editor 1924, and editor 1933-42, of the 'Statesman',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
21946. Mss Eur C839
- 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
21947. Mss Eur C840
- 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
21948. Mss Eur C841
- 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
21949. Mss Eur C842
- 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
21950. Mss Eur C843
- 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