Clerk Collections: papers, dated 1838-84, of Sir George Russell Clerk (1800-89), Governor of Bombay 1847-48 and 1860-62, Perm- anent Under-Secretary of State for India 1858-60; and papers, dated 1869-96, of his son Capt Claude Clerk (1832-1905), Madras Cavalry 1850-62, mainly as Tutor to the Niza...
Newspaper cuttings chiefly from the `Pioneer' relating to the Afghan Boundary Commission compiled, while he was serving with the Commission, by Capt (later Lt-Col Sir) Edward Law Durand, 1st Bart (1845-1920), Bengal Staff Corps 1866-93, Foreign and Political Dept, Government of India 1871-93.
Papers of Frederick William, Baron Pethick-Lawrence (1871-1961), member of Round Table Conference 1931, Secretary of State for India 1945-47, comprising correspondence, dated 1931, on a `Memorandum on Financial Safeguards' to be put before the Round Table Conference; exchange of letters (Feb 1946...
Typescript catalogue of the `Dara Shikoh' album of Persian miniatures and calligraphy, by Arthur John Arberry (1905-69), Assistant Librarian, India Office Library 1934-39, Professor of Arabic, University of Cambridge 1947-65. (Arberry's descriptions of the calligraphic specimens are utilized in ...
Papers of Sir John Walton, India Office official 1909-46
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Walton Collection: papers of Sir John Charles Walton (1885-1957), India Office official 1909-46, Assistant Under-Secretary of State for India 1936-42, Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Burma 1942-46.
Correspondence of the Fowke, Benn, Walsh and Maskelyne families
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Ormathwaite Collection: correspondence of Joseph Fowke (1716-1800), East India Company servant, Madras 1736-52, free merchant trading in diamonds 1771-81, senior merchant with Company 1781-87; of his son Francis (1754-1820), Resident at Benares 1775-76, 1780-81, 1783-86; of his daughter Margaret ...
Papers, dated 1793-1803, of Col Robert Sutherland an officer serving with the army of Mahadaji Rao Sindhia (d 1794) and Daulat Rao Sindhia, including some letters from Count Benoit de Boigne; also letters, dated 1803-05, received by Maj Hugh Sutherland.