Frederick Collection (2): letter books of Lt-Col (later General) Edward Frederick (1784-1866), Bombay Army 1799; Assistant Commissary General, Bombay 1813-22; Military Secretary to Governor of Bombay 1827-28; member, Governor-General's Military Finance Finance Committee, Nov 1828; Commissary Gene...
`Primus in Indis': typescript copy of article in Journal of the United Services Institute (Oct 1948) by Lt-Col M E S Laws, concerning the landing of the first British Army unit in India, a company of the Royal Artillery, under Capt J Goodyer, at Cuddalore in July 1748.
Papers of William Digby, Director of the Indian Political Agency
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Digby Collection: papers of William Digby (1849-1904), Secretary of National Liberal Club 1882-87, founder and Director of the Indian Political Agency 1887-92, editor of `India' 1890-92, including letters from Dadabhai Naoroji, Charles Bradlaugh, Sir Dinsha Edulji Wacha, and Motilal Ghose.
`The Origins of the Frontier between India and East Pakistan': confidential printed memorandum, with maps annexed, dated 19 Feb 1969, by Research Dept of Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Miscellaneous letters and papers relating inter alia to Madras and the Mysore War 1790-92, and including letters to George, Earl Macartney (1737-1806), Governor of Madras 1781-85, and to Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733-1800), President of the Board of Control 1784-90.
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Miscellaneous letters and papers relating inter alia to Madras and the Mysore War 1790-92, and including letters to George, Earl Macartney (1737-1806), Governor of Madras 1781-85, and to Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733-1800), President of the Board of Control 1784-90.
Papers of Sir Henry Staveley Lawrence (1870-1949), Indian Civil Service, Bombay 1890-1926, Commissioner in Sind 1916-20, Acting Governor of Bombay 1926, comprising a file of lectures on Indian reforms given during a tour of Canada for the National Education Society, with related newscuttings; and...
Correspondence of Messrs Brundrett, Randall, Simmons and Brown, solicitors, as London agents of the Administrator General, Supreme Court, Madras, relating to the estates of deceased Army Officers and others who left assets in the Madras Presidency, and in particular to the tracing of legatees.