Two typescript memoirs by Marjory E Fyson (b 1910): the first, dated c1935 and entitled `Good Memory', describing her childhood experiences in India; the second, dated c1970 and entitled `Not without Heat and Dust', describing her life in Pakistan as Head of a School for the Blind, 1951-69.
Miscellaneous papers, mainly relating to Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811-79), Bengal Civil Service 1830-59, Viceroy of India 1864-69; also references to his brother Brig-Gen Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence (1806-57), Bengal Artillery 1823-57, Chief Commissioner in Oudh 1857, ...
Papers of Sir Edward West, Recorder and Chief Justice of Bombay 1823-28, and Lady West
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Papers of Sir Edward West (1782-1828), Recorder and Chief Justice of Bombay 1823-28, comprising correspondence and papers relating to his controversial judicial career in Bombay includ- ing his dispute with the Governor, Mountstuart Elphinstone; also diary of his wife Lucretia (d 1828), containin...
`List of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in the Central Provinces and Berar with Biographical Notes' (Nagpur 1932) by O S Crofton with occasional manuscript annotations by Sir Geoffrey Charles Frescheville Ramsden (1893-1990), Indian Civil Service, Central Provinces 1920-47.
Papers of Sir Findlater Stewart, India Office official
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Stewart Collection: papers of Sir (Samuel) Findlater Stewart (1879-1960), India Office 1903-40, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India 1930-40, seconded for various wartime duties 1940-45, comprising private and demi-official correspondence, miscellaneous papers (including printed volume of...
Diary and photograph album compiled by Flying Officer Richard William Alexander Stroud (d 1930), R.A.F. 1927-30, during his service in England and India, chiefly on the North-West Frontier and in Afghanistan.
Papers of John Shepherd (1792-1859), East India Company Director 1835-58, Chairman 1844, 1850 and 1851, chiefly comprising correspondence from and concerning Field Marshal Viscount Hardinge (1785- 1856), Governor-General of India 1844-47.
Papers, dated 1894-1973, of and relating to Maj George Lamb (1869-1911), Indian Medical Service 1894-1911, Director of the Pasteur Institute in India 1905-09. Contains: ff 1. Certificate of appointment to the Indian Medical Department, 29 Jan 1894. ff 2 - 4. Offprint W Hanna and G Lamb, "A ca...
Diaries of Lt-Gen James Crofton (1826-1908), Bengal (later Royal) Engineers 1844-82, Inspector General of Irrigation and Deputy Secretary, Public Works Dept, Government of India 1874-82, containing brief notes on his activities and the weather; also two obituary memoirs of Crofton.