Memoir, dated 1826, by Maj (later Col) William Morison (1785-1867), Bombay Army 1801-29, who served in the Maratha Wars 1804-05 and 1817-18, losing a leg at the siege of Bharatpur in 1805; also his commission as Colonel (1854), obituary notice, and copy of the `East India Military Calendar', vol ...
Papers of Col Robert Welland Knox (b 1873), Indian Medical Service 1897-1928, comprising copies of his official war diaries as C.O. 121st Indian Field Ambulance in Mesopotamia 1916-17, and his service papers 1897-1923.
Thirteen ornate presentation addresses to Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1842-1902), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1862-92, Lieutenant- Governor of Bengal 1895-98; also a finely bound manuscript entitled `A Brief History of Music' by Raja Sir Sourindra Mohun Tagore (1840-1914) presented by the author to...
Letters and papers of and relating to Frederick Albert Loinsworth (c1787-1842), Army Medical Service 1803-42; Deputy Inspector-General of Army Hospitals, Bombay 1837-42, and Inspector-General of Army Hospitals, India 1842; also papers relating to his son Lt C W Loinsworth, British Army. 1) Ms c...
Letters and papers of Lt-Col Henry Watson (1737-86), Bengal Army 1764-86, Field Engineer, Calcutta 1764-72, Chief Engineer of Bengal 1776-86; including description of voyage to India with Lord Clive 1764-65, and activities in Calcutta.
Typescript copy of A J Arberry's `The India Office Library: A Historical Sketch' (London 1967), and other typescript material, including three articles, relating to the history of the Library of the East India Company and India Office.
Diaries of Sir Frederick Whyte, President of the Indian Legislative Assembly 1920-25; political observer in China and Japan 1934
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Diaries, dated Oct 1917-Jun 1919, May 1922-Nov 1923, and Jun-Oct 1934, of Sir (Alexander) Frederick Whyte (1883-1970), as MP for Perth 1910-18; President of the Legislative Assembly of India 1920-25; and as political observer in China and Japan 1934; including observations on Indian political and...
Letter, dated 10 Jul 1804, from Maj-Gen Arthur Wellesley (later 1st Duke of Wellington) (1769-1852), Chief Political and Military Officer in the Deccan and Southern Maratha country, to Jonathan Duncan (1756-1811), Governor of Bombay 1795-1811, about a proposed treaty with the Raja of Kolhapur.
`Four years of Independence - An Indo-Pakistani Retrospect': address given on 29 Jan 1952 by Ian Melville Stephens (1903-84), on staff of 'Statesman' from 1937 and editor 1943-51, at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House).
Typescript translation of a letter, dated Cochin 10 Jan 1580, to a Signor Adelgais in Portugal, describing the writer's voyage from Lisbon to Goa and Cochin where he was engaged in the spice trade, and giving detailed impressions of 16th century India.
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Typescript translation of a letter, dated Cochin 10 Jan 1580, to a Signor Adelgais in Portugal, describing the writer's voyage from Lisbon to Goa and Cochin where he was engaged in the spice trade, and giving detailed impressions of 16th century India.