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22022. Mss Eur C923
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur C923
- Title:
- Copies of letters, dated 29 Apr and 1 May 1939, from General Sir (Harry Beauchamp) Douglas Baird (1877-1963), Indian Army 1897-1940, G.O.C-in-C, Eastern Command 1936-40, and enclosures, commenting on flagrant abuses perpetrated in Eastern States, advocating their merger and reform, and proposing in the meantime that troops should not be employed to supportbut rather 'to arrest and expel these Rajas, whose atrocities are now coming to light'; also miscellaneous memorabilia.
- Scope & Content:
- Copies of letters, dated 29 Apr and 1 May 1939, from General Sir (Harry Beauchamp) Douglas Baird (1877-1963), Indian Army 1897-1940, G.O.C-in-C, Eastern Command 1936-40, and enclosures, commenting on flagrant abuses perpetrated in Eastern States, advocating their merger and reform, and proposing...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1939
- Extent:
- 1 folder
22023. Mss Eur C924
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur C924
- Title:
- Letter, dated Jun 1833, from Elizabeth Murray to her sisters Susan and Mary Campbell asking them to assist in securing the good offices of the Duchess of Kent to get a commission recently given to 'Alexander' transferred to 'Darling William' [presumably both were her sons]; also letter, dated 25 Jul 1834, from Arbuthnot &Co to Maj William Murray, Madras Army, forwarding a bill drawn on the East India Company for £76 17 6 for interest on his investments.
- Scope & Content:
- Letter, dated Jun 1833, from Elizabeth Murray to her sisters Susan and Mary Campbell asking them to assist in securing the good offices of the Duchess of Kent to get a commission recently given to 'Alexander' transferred to 'Darling William' [presumably both were her sons]; also letter, dated 25 ...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1833
- Extent:
- 1 folder
22024. Mss Eur C925
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur C925
- Title:
- Transcripts of six letters (1847-50) written by Capt Anthony Herring (1816-50), master of the ship 'Centaur', and his wife Jane Penelope Herring (1828-50), and a diary (1849-50) kept by Mrs Herring who accompanied her husband on his voyages. The Herring family are thought to have founded a firm of shipbrokers.
- Scope & Content:
- Transcripts of six letters (1847-50) written by Capt Anthony Herring (1816-50), master of the ship 'Centaur', and his wife Jane Penelope Herring (1828-50), and a diary (1849-50) kept by Mrs Herring who accompanied her husband on his voyages. The Herring family are thought to have founded a firm o...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1847-1850
- Extent:
- 1 folder
22025. Mss Eur C926
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur C926
- Title:
- Letter, dated 23 Oct [1936 ?], from Katherine Helen Maud Diver (d 1945), author, to Sir Alexander Waldemar Lawrence, 4th Bart, commenting on her book 'Honoria Lawrence: a fragment of Indian History' (London 1936).
- Scope & Content:
- Letter, dated 23 Oct [1936 ?], from Katherine Helen Maud Diver (d 1945), author, to Sir Alexander Waldemar Lawrence, 4th Bart, commenting on her book 'Honoria Lawrence: a fragment of Indian History' (London 1936).
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1936
- Extent:
- 3 folios
22026. Mss Eur C927
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur C927
- Title:
- Note by Sir Alexander Waldemar Lawrence, 4th Bart (1874-1939) on conversation (1909) with George Henry Mildmay Ricketts (1827-1914), Indian Civil Service 1847-79, served in Punjab 1853-58, on Sir Henry Lawrence's administration of the Punjab; memorandum by Ricketts copied by Sir A Lawrence (1909) on the mutiny in the Punjab.
- Scope & Content:
- Note by Sir Alexander Waldemar Lawrence, 4th Bart (1874-1939) on conversation (1909) with George Henry Mildmay Ricketts (1827-1914), Indian Civil Service 1847-79, served in Punjab 1853-58, on Sir Henry Lawrence's administration of the Punjab; memorandum by Ricketts copied by Sir A Lawrence (1909)...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1849-1857
- Extent:
- 1 folder
22027. Mss Eur C928
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur C928
- Title:
- Certificate issued by Inspector of Seamen's Wills authorising payment of outstanding wages and allowances of Daniel Ducker of Portsea, seaman, who died at Macao 27 Jul 1841, to his mother Sarah Ducker.
- Scope & Content:
- Certificate issued by Inspector of Seamen's Wills authorising payment of outstanding wages and allowances of Daniel Ducker of Portsea, seaman, who died at Macao 27 Jul 1841, to his mother Sarah Ducker.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1841-1842
- Extent:
- 2 folios
22028. Mss Eur C929
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur C929
- Title:
- Miscellaneous papers, probably strays from the Mackenzie Collection, including for example 'Memorandum on the close of the Mysore Survey in 1802' and 'Heads of Enquiries for Tanjore Nobember 1809'.
- Scope & Content:
- Miscellaneous papers, probably strays from the Mackenzie Collection, including for example 'Memorandum on the close of the Mysore Survey in 1802' and 'Heads of Enquiries for Tanjore Nobember 1809'.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1802-1814
- Extent:
- 1 folder
22029. Mss Eur C930
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur C930
- Title:
- Three letters, dated 1857, received by Maj-Gen (later Sir) John Bennet Hearsey (1793-1865), Bengal Army 1807, Divisional Commander at Barrackpore 1857, from Maj-Gen Sir Hugh Massy Wheeler, Divisional Commander at Cawnpore (22 Mar), Lord Canning (30 Mar), and Col (later Sir) Richard Birch, Secretary, Military Dept, Government of India (20 May), on Hearsey's disbandment of 19th Native Infantry, state of feeling at Cawnpore, Wheeler's recent ill health, and whether blank cartridges should be iss...
- Scope & Content:
- Three letters, dated 1857, received by Maj-Gen (later Sir) John Bennet Hearsey (1793-1865), Bengal Army 1807, Divisional Commander at Barrackpore 1857, from Maj-Gen Sir Hugh Massy Wheeler, Divisional Commander at Cawnpore (22 Mar), Lord Canning (30 Mar), and Col (later Sir) Richard Birch, Secreta...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1857
- Extent:
- 2 folios
22030. Mss Eur C931
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur C931
- Title:
- Miscellaneous letters from Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811-79), Bengal Civil Service 1830-59; Chief Commissioner of the Punjab 1853-59; Member, Council of India 1859-63; Viceroy of India 1864-69; affirming in one (12 May 1859) his deep interest in 'the mode in which as Christians we shall govern India'; also invitation to and hymn to be sung at his funeral; also letter dated 11 Dec [?] from Sir Henry Lawrence.
- Scope & Content:
- Miscellaneous letters from Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811-79), Bengal Civil Service 1830-59; Chief Commissioner of the Punjab 1853-59; Member, Council of India 1859-63; Viceroy of India 1864-69; affirming in one (12 May 1859) his deep interest in 'the mode in which as Chri...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1857-1879
- Extent:
- 1 folder