Extract from a letter, dated 20 Jan 1798, from General James Stuart (1741-1815), British Army, C-in-C, Madras 1801-04, to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811), President of the Board of Control 1793-1801, criticizing recent errors of policy and administration in Malabar and commenting ...
`Account of the Rajahs of Sittarah and the Peshwas translated from the Mahratta'; `Translation of Mahratta History'; and a general account of Ajmer and Jodhpur; by Capt (later Lt-Col) Peter Johnstone (c1785-1867), Bengal Army 1807-31, served at Indore c1821-37.
Papers of 2nd Marquess of Zetland as Governor of Bengal 1917-22, and Secretary of State for India 1935-40
Scope & Content:
Zetland Collection: papers of Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, 2nd Marques of Zetland (1876-1961), Governor of Bengal 1917-22, Secretary of State for India 1935-40 and for Burma 1937-40.
Papers relating to the Indian Mutiny and other miscellanea
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous typescript and manuscript extracts and printed pamphlets, chiefly relating to the part played by Sir Theophilus John Metcalfe, 5th Bart (1828-83), and George Henry Mildmay Ricketts (1827-1914), in the Indian Mutiny; also letters from Earl Roberts about Afghanistan (1888), and the Ea...
Printed pamphlets and manuscript letters by James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), journalist and traveller, editor of `Calcutta Journal' 1818-23, MP 1832-37; chiefly concerning his lectures in England and his efforts to raise money for his voyage round the world.
`Report concerning the Slave Trade', dated Macassar 1799, submitted by A J Van Schinne and S Monsieur to the Council of Policy (presumably a translation from a Dutch original).
Correspondence of Lt-Col Sir George Olof Roos-Keppel (1866- 1921), Chief Commissioner and Agent to the Governor-General, North West Frontier Province 1908-19, with Lord Hardinge, Viceroy 1910-16, and Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy 1916-21, and others, relating to frontier administration, relations with...
Extracts from East India Company accounts, including statements of salaries and allowances of servants of the Company, commercial accounts, and accounts of territorial revenue, and of civil, military and marine expenditure.
Letter, dated Bombay 16 Aug 1823, from Mrs F Farquharson to Mr and Mrs William Leslie of Aberdeen, describing life in India, and a letter, dated Surat 1 Feb 1824, from her husband Capt Francis Farquharson, Bombay Army, describing her death.
`A Short Camp Residence in the valley of Aden exhibiting an outline of its present aspect and condition', by Capt Robert Mignan, 1st Bombay European Regiment.