Papers of Stephen Babington, Bombay Civil Service, and other members of the Babington Family
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Private letters and papers of the Babington Family including Stephen Babington (1790-1822), Bombay Civil Service 1806-22, his wife Catherine, their sons William Frank (1816-54), Bombay Medical Service 1839-54 and Stephen (1819-46), Bombay Civil Service 1838-46, and grandson Stephen (1844-1926), ...
Letter book of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811), Member 1784 and President 1793-1801 of the Board of Control, containing letters received with enclosures from Maj-Gen Sir William Medows (1738-1813), Governor and C-in-C, Madras 1790- 92, Sir Charles Oakeley, 1st Bart (1751-1826), Go...
Typed extracts, dated 3 Oct-26 Nov 1857, from the journal of Maj (later Lt-Gen Sir) John Blick Spurgin (1821-1903), Royal Dublin Fusiliers, describing his experiences during the siege of Lucknow.
Programmes, dated 23 Mar 1939, for a dinner at the Foreign Office and entertainment at the India Office on the occasion of the State Visit of the President of the French Republic, Albert Lebrun (1871-1950), and Mme Lebrun.
File of correspondence between the Woking Mosque Trust and Messrs Vickers-Armstrong Ltd concerning the latter's request to extend their premises at Oriental Works, Woking, for wartime aircraft production, and build on ground belonging to the Mosque.
Typescript account, dated 14 Jul 1942, of the evacuation of Rangoon by the Chartered Bank of India and other banks at the end of Feb 1942 after the invasion of Burma by the Japanese, and their subsequent evacuation of Mandalay in April 1942.
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Typescript account, dated 14 Jul 1942, of the evacuation of Rangoon by the Chartered Bank of India and other banks at the end of Feb 1942 after the invasion of Burma by the Japanese, and their subsequent evacuation of Mandalay in April 1942.
Notes on the trial of Nanda Kumar for forgery in 1775, made by Sir Torick Ameer Ali (1891-1975), Puisne Judge, High Court Calcutta 1931-44, Adviser to the Secretary of State for India 1944-47.
`Mermanjan - Star of the Evening': typescript account of the romantic marriage of Mermanjan, an Afghan chief's daughter, to Lt-Col Thomas Maughan (1805-61), Bombay Army 1822; by Gertrude Dimmock, subsequently published under the same title (Henderson Publishing Co, Nelson, Lancs 1970).
Volume of correspondence between John C A Thirlwell, LL.D, of Towcester and N R Bond, whose letters are addressed from East India House, involving a practical joke played on Thirlwell by Bond concerning the press-ganging of men for the East India Company's army.
Section of an official file, dated May 1859, originally of the British Consulate at Canton, mainly concerning disputes over tariff payments to the Chinese Government; claims by merchants for loss or damage of goods; and the construction of a British settlement at Canton.