Annotated translation of St Matthew's Gospel, chs. 1-13, from Greek into Persian, by William Chambers (1746-93), Madras Civil Service 1765-93, Persian Interpreter to the High Court of Bengal 1776-92. Dated as: no date
`South of the Mists': unpublished account of the history of Yunnan, China, by Stanley Wyatt-Smith (1887-1958), Chinese Consular Service 1907-45. Dated as: no date
Volume containing a memoir by Col James Oliver, Madras Army 1769-1807, on his services in India, with copies of related correspondence, written in response to his dismissal by the East India Company in Nov 1799 for financial offences.
Papers of Sir Theodore Tasker, Hyderabad Government Service 1927-42
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Tasker Collection: papers of Sir Theodore James Tasker (1884- 1981), Indian Civil Service, Madras 1908-44, seconded to the Government of Nizam of Hyderabad 1927-42, mainly relating to his service in Hyderabad and including tour notes, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, printed books and photographs.
Papers of Ernest Walter Geils (1885-1971), Indian Posts and Telegraphs Dept 1900-40, Chief Superintendent Central Telegraph Office, Calcutta 1938-40, concerning his career.
`The India Office as I knew it': manuscript and typescript copy of memoirs, dated 1973, by Sidney James McNally (b 1902), of his career as a clerk in the Foreign Office 1918-22, India Office 1922-47, and Commonwealth Relations Office 1947-62, chiefly in the Accountant General's Department of the ...
Account book and miscellaneous financial papers kept probably by Col Charles Russell (1700-54), mainly as agent for his father John Russell (1670-1735), East India Company servant 1694-1711, Governor of Bengal 1710-11; for his cousin Sir Francis Russell, 6th Bart (c1700-43), East India Company se...
Fragementary correspondence and notes of Horace Hayman Wilson (1786-1860), Bengal Medical Service 1808-34; Deputy Assay Master 1808-16 and Assay Master, Calcutta Mint 1816-32; Boden Professor of Sanskrit, University of Oxford 1832-60; Librarian of the East India Company and India Office Library 1...
Copy of speech on 19 Dec 1902 at the unveiling of the Holwell Monument in Calcutta, by George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859-1925), Viceroy of India 1899-1905.