Letter, dated 14 Aug 1925, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (1866-1941), Governor of Bombay 1913-18, Governor of Madras 1919-1924, Viceroy of India 1931-36, to "Dearest Minnie" remarking on a very interesting statement by Gandhi, but he did not like the Bill transferring dyarch...
Letter, dated 29 Aug 1827, from Edward Upham (1776-1834), oriental scholar and Librarian to the House Of Lords, to W Wilson explaining why he could not arrange to meet him.
Letter, 11 Nov 1829, from Daniel Wilson (1778-1858), Vicar of Islington 1824-32, Bishop of Calcutta 1832-58, to his cousin Joseph Wilson, asking him to call as he had received a communication 'from our active and zealous Bishop' about forming a Subscription Grammar School in his parish for respec...
Letter, dated 23 Dec 1905, from Sir Robert Hart (1835-1911), Inspector of Customs in China to Bowring saying that the Japanese had concluded a treaty and asking Bowring to meet Baron Komaya and that his baggage must be passed without inspection.
Letter, dated 21 Mar 1821, from Sir John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth (1751-1834), Governor-General of Bengal 1793-98 to an unnamed correspondent, in which he expresses his appreciation of the Book of Job and conjecturing when Job lived.
Letter, dated 21 July 1927, from Sir (James) George Scott (1851-1935), journalist; served in Burma Commission 1886-1910 to Mrs Tennyson Jesse, advising her on the spelling and meaning of Burmese names she was using in a book.
Letter, dated 25 Jan 1806, from the Raja of Tanjore to an unnamed correspondent saying that he had received three volumes of Orme's 'History of Hindoostan', and asks for the final volume.