Marriage settlement, dated 11 Jul 1855, between Robert Duncan Gerard of Westminister and Elinor Bell of Wandsworth, relating to a Ceylon Coffee Plantation.
Exemplification of Letters of Administration, dated 27 Jan 1834, to Mrs Cornelia Isabella Rutherford, in respect of her son Lt Alexander Moir (d 1832), Bombay Army 1826-32.
Six miscellaneous wills, administrations, etc, relating to property and effects in Bengal and Ceylon; also letters of administration in respect of Lt John Hynde Cotton (d 1857 at Secunderabad), British Army.
Four documents relating to the administration of the marriage settlement of Mrs Anne Maria Fincham, widow of Alfred Fincham, including a statement of funds deposited in the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company.
`Narrative of the Indian Campaign of 1857': manuscript copy (in more than one hand) of account by T S M Palmer, apparently a trooper in the 7th Hussars, British Army, of his service (27 Aug 1857-8 Apr 1859) during the Indian Mutiny at Lucknow, Faizabad and with the Central India Field Force.
`Narratives of Mahrattah History, and an Account of the Jeyn, or Shravaca Religion': manuscript translation of Muslim and Hindu histories of the Marathas with an account of the Jain religion and of Hindu astronomy (illustrated with diagrams), apparently compiled at St Helena, c1824.
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`Narratives of Mahrattah History, and an Account of the Jeyn, or Shravaca Religion': manuscript translation of Muslim and Hindu histories of the Marathas with an account of the Jain religion and of Hindu astronomy (illustrated with diagrams), apparently compiled at St Helena, c1824.
Copies of twenty-five letters from Sir George Abraham Grierson (1851-1941), Indian Civil Service 1873-1903, Superintendent of the Linguistic Survey of India 1898-1902, to Shyama Charan Ganguly, and of two from Ganguly to Grierson, chiefly on the transliteration and phonetic transcription of Benga...
Letters received by Charles Milner Ricketts (b 1776) as Chief Secretary to Government, Bengal 1815-17, and by John Adam (1779-1825) as Secretary in the Secret, Political and Foreign Dept, Bengal 1812-17, including applications for appointments and promotions; also a series of letters, dated 1813-...
Typescript copy of account by Henry Tyler of his period at Addiscombe 1830-32; his voyage to Madras 1832-33 including descriptions of ship's mutiny, disablement of ship in a storm, and of the island of Mauritius; and his two years as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Ordance Dept, St Thomas's Mount, Madras...