Fourteen letters from Sir Aurel Stein (1862-1943), Indian Educational Service 1899-1910, Archaeological Survey of India 1910-29, oriental scholar, explorer and archaeologist, to Ernest John Henry Mackay, Archaeological Dept, Simla, and his wife, mainly concerning archaeological matters in the Ind...
Letters addressed to Lt (later Maj Sir) Henry Willock (1788-1858), Madras Army 1804-33, chiefly as Charge d'Affaires in Persia, from Sir Robert Liston, James Justinian Morier, Sir Robert Ker Porter, John Bidwell and others; also `Notes on the Willock Family' (nd).
Papers of William Robert Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel (1867-1937), including formal letters relating to his second period of office (1928-29) as Secretary of State for India, opening speech to the Burma Round Table Conference 1931-32, and letters from Sir Samuel Hoare on Peel's possible Chairman...
Diaries of Lt (later Maj-Gen) Henry Lawrence Haughton (1883-1955), Indian Army 1904-43, including an account of his service in India, notably in Gilgit and Baltistan, and during the famine of 1908; with photographs and pencil sketches.
Later manuscript copies of (i) narrative by George Bogle (1746- 81), East India Company servant, Bengal 1769-81, of his visit to Tibet to the Tashi Lama (1774); (ii) an account of Tibet, apparently based on Bogle's letters and papers, published in `Philosophical Transactions', lxvii, pt.2 (1777);...
Miscellaneous private letters mainly addressed to David Scott (1746-1805), MP, East India Company Director 1788-1802, Chairman 1796 and 1801, on electioneering, patronage and other matters. Cf C H Phillips, `The Correspondence of David Scott', 2 vols, 1951.
Two letter books of Richard Barwell (1741-1804), East India Company servant 1758-1781, containing copies of private letters written while a member of the Bengal Council to persons in Europe chiefly on private and business matters but including observations on the revenue and administrative affair...
Letter, dated 4 Mar 1934, from Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), replying to one from Leslie Nanscawen Brown (b 1886), Indian Civil Service, Bombay 1911-35, Collector and District Magistrate, Dharwar 1933-35, requesting that Gandhi should not fly the Congress flag on his car, and a ...
Translations of three Limbu manuscripts in the Hodgson Collection, Nos.74, 78 and 86, and of another unidentified manuscript Limbu history, by Iman Singh Chemjong, President, Limbuwan Sudhar Sangha, Darjeeling; also typescript note by R K Sprigg on `Limbu Books in the Kiranti Script' to appear in...