India Office Library papers comprising draft catalogues of the Johnson Collection by Herbert Niel Randle (1880-1973), Assist- ant Librarian 1927 and Librarian 1933-49 of the India Office Library, and Arthur John Arberry (1905-69), Assistant Librarian 1934-39; with related papers, notes on exhibit...
Journal of Lt (later Maj) James Charles Curtis (b 1820), Bengal Army 1841-68, describing details of camp life and marches in northern and central India.
Manuscript copy of letter, dated Vinckategerry (Venkatagiri, south India) 19 Apr 1791, from an unknown officer giving news of the campaign against Tipu Sultan of Mysore.
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Manuscript copy of letter, dated Vinckategerry (Venkatagiri, south India) 19 Apr 1791, from an unknown officer giving news of the campaign against Tipu Sultan of Mysore.
Miscellaneous papers of Amy Ironside Smith, wife of James Ironside Smith (1884-1929), Indian Civil Service, Madras 1907-29, including letters, photographs and a description of their bungalow at Waltair, Vizagapatam.
Printed copies of judgements, dated 1947-50, given by William Wares Georgeson (b 1906), Indian Civil Service, Madras 1933-47, District and Sessions Judge, Madras 1943-50; also xerox copy of three letters, dated 1944, from Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1878-1972), Congress politician, Governor-Gene...
Typescript copies of letters of Corp John Butterworth (c1867-1900), British Army, 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps 1896-1900, describing his service in India Jul-Dec 1896.
British Indian Passport and Delhi Driving Licence of Sir Alexander Brebner (1883-1979), Indian Service of Engineers 1906-38, Chief Engineer, Government of India 1931-38.
Atholl Collection: papers relating to India of Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl (1874-1960), Unionist Member of Parliament 1923-38, compiled in the course of her campaign against the proposals for Indian self-government contained in the White Paper of 1933 and enacted in the Go...
Papers of Middleton Rayne (1830-82), Public Works Dept, Government of India 1868-79, Engineer in Chief, Indus Valley State Railway 1876-79, comprising diaries, sketchbooks, letters and photographs; also two diaries, dated 1871 and 1883, of his wife Annie.