Papers of Sir Evelyn Howell, Indian Civil Service 1900-34
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Howell Collection: papers of Sir Evelyn Berkeley Howell (1877-1971), Indian Civil Service, Punjab and NWFP 1900-34, chiefly comprising family correspondence (1896-1904), literary papers, and some official papers including Howell's reports as Censor of Indian mails in France 1914-15, with extracts...
Papers of Herbert Frederick Clogstoun (1844-95), Indian Civil Service, Madras 1864-95, additional member of the Governor-General's Council 1893-95, chiefly indicating amendments he had proposed to the Indian Merchant Shiping Bill of 1892; also farewell papers (1922) of his son-in-law Herbert Mort...
Letters and papers of General Henry William Blake (1815-1908), Madras Army, Commander of Pegu Division, Burma 1871-72, and of Hyderabad Subsidiary Force 1873-76.
Two papers by Sir William Dawson Croft (1872-1946), Deputy Under Secretary of State, India Office 1941-47: (i) `Economic Aspect of Pakistan', May 1943; (ii) `Note on case of Nawab of Palanpur' [1946].
Typescript extracts from a family history, dated 1877, by Maj-Gen Charles Lamont Robertson Glasfurd (1831-87), Bombay Army 1849, of his services, and those of his father Maj-Gen John Glasfurd (1810-64), Bengal Engineers 1828, and half- brother Lt Frederick William Glasfurd (1843-67), 9th Bengal N...
Papers of Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood, Indian Army; C-in-C, India 1925-30
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Birdwood Collection: papers of Field Marshal Sir William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (1865-1951), C-in-C, India 1925-30; including correspondence and papers of Lord Kitchener as C-in-C, India 1902-09 to whom Birdwood was Military Secretary; papers arising from Birdwood's appointments as ...
Correspondence, dated 24 Feb-8 March 1920, between (Sir) Charles Morgan Webb (1872-1963), Chief Secretary to Government of Burma 1919-20, and John Alexander Stewart (1882-1948), Deputy Commissioner, Kyaukse 1919-25, on the maintenance of discipline among Burmese Buddhist divinity students at Mand...
`Some Reminiscences of an Indian Civilian in Burma': text of a lecture by Sir Benjamin Herbert Heald (1874-1940), Indian Civil Service, Burma 1898-1933, on his early years in Burma.
Confidential note (c1937) on `Distribution of Teak Forests' in Burma by Harry Richard Blanford (b 1884), Indian Forest Service 1905-39, Chief Conservator of Forests, Burma 1935-39.
Eleven lectures, entitled `Social welfare in Burma', delivered to Burma Civil Service probationers in London, by Humphrey Frederic Searle (1888-1965), Indian Civil Service, Burma 1912-38.