Printed and manuscript papers assembled by General Sir Henry Brackenbury (1837-1914), British Army 1856, Military Member of Governor-General's Council 1891-96, relating to military organization and strategy in India including notes on Chitral, Gilgit, the threat of Russian invasion, the Intellige...
Papers of Ernest Havell, Indian Educational Service
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`Havell Collection': letters and papers of Ernest Binfield Havell (1861-1934), Indian Educational Service, Superintendent of the Madras School of Arts 1884-92, Principal of the Calcutta School of Art and Keeper of the Government Art Gallery 1896- 1906.
Letters of Hew Steuart, East India Company servant, Fort Marlborough, Sumatra
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Letters to members of his family from Hew Stuart (c1732-82), East India Company servant at Fort Marlborough 1756-81, member of Fort Marlborough Council 1764-80, President and Governor 1780-81, and papers relating to his children; also unsigned journal of the voyage of the `Bland' from Liverpool t...
Papers of Ernest Hart (1875-1928), Assistant Commissioner, Nicobar Islands 1921-28, and previously Government Agent, Car Nicobar, chiefly comprising memoirs and stories relating to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Burma.
Literary manuscripts by Edith Marshman, daughter of John Clark Marshman (1794-1877), missionary in India, chiefly comprising `Tales from the Ramayana: An Indian Fairy Story'. Dated as: no date
Rough log, dated Apr 1796-Jan 1797, of voyage of the East Indiaman `General Goddard' from Portsmouth to Madras, Calcutta and Prince of Wales Island, apparently in the hand of Capt Thomas Graham (b 1769), East India Company maritime service c1783-1804; also explanatory table of convoy signal instr...
Typescript journal entitled `Travelogue in Midsummer' by Miss Dorothy Sykes (alias Sykes-Clarke) of a journey in a horse-drawn carriage from Jubbulpore via Lahore to the Kangra valley, with copy photographs.
Official and private papers and letters relating chiefly to the career of Sir Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), East India Company servant 1795-1824, Lieutenant- Governor of Java 1811-16, Governor of Benkulen 1818-24, founder of Singapore 1819; including letters to Raffles from Malay and Indonesian r...
Typed extracts from ten letters to Thomas Collins, or his wife, from various friends serving in India describing conditions of life and service in India with some political comment.
Papers of Lt-Col Herbert Bowater Vernon (1883-1969), 27th Punjabis 1904-33, relating chiefly to the history of the Regiment since 1857 including detailed typescript war record in Mesopotamia 1914-15; also notes for a lecture on Indian reinforcements in France 11914-15 , and a copy of The advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1917-18 (Cairo, Govt Press 1919).
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Papers of Lt-Col Herbert Bowater Vernon (1883-1969), 27th Punjabis 1904-33, relating chiefly to the history of the Regiment since 1857 including detailed typescript war record in Mesopotamia 1914-15; also lecture on Indian reinforcements in France 1914-15, and `The Advance of the Egyptian Expedit...