Papers of Frederick Charles Temple, Public Works Department 1907-19; Chief Town Engineer 1919 and Administrator 1924-32, Jamshedpur
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Papers of Frederick Charles Temple (1879-1957), Public Works Dept, Government of India 1907-19; Chief Town Engineer 1919 and Administrator 1924-32, Jamshedpur; Relief Engineer and Supply Officer, Bihar and Orissa 1934-35; relating to town planning and municipal administration in Jamshedpur, and r...
Copy of petition, signed by Robert Blackborne, Secretary of the East India Company 1666-1700, to the Lords Justices of England requesting that they direct the Admiralty to provide adequate naval protection for the Company's ships against the French.
Diary, dated 1748, of siege of Pondicherry by the British, written by a member of the French forces; also letter, dated 3 May 1787, from Thomas Morton, Secretary of the East India Company 1783-92, to Admiral Sir Edward Vernon (1723-94), Cin-C East indies 1776-81, with copy of latter's reply, concerning booty and plunder taken at Pondicherry in 1778.
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Diary, dated 1748, of siege of Pondicherry by the British, written by a member of the French forces; also letter, dated 3 May 1787, from Thomas Morton, Secretary of the East India Company 1783-92, to Admiral Sir Edward Vernon (1723-94), Cin-C East indies 1776-81, with copy of latter's reply, conc...
Printed testimonials recommending Sir Graves Champney Haughton (1788-1849), Bengal Army 1809-19, Professor of Sanskrit and Bengali at Haileybury 1819-27, for the Boden Professorship at Oxford; also extract from letter discussing other candidates.
Papers of Clinton Dawkins, Indian Forest Service, Burma 1909-37, and his wife Enid
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Dawkins Collection: letters, journals, articles and photographs of Clinton George Evelyn Dawkins (b 1882), Indian Forest Service, Burma 1908-36, and of his wife Frances Enid Dawkins, chiefly relating to their life in Burma; also impressions of England in the years immediately following the 1st Wo...
Papers of Lt-Col Asher Leventon, Indian Medical Service
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Papers of Lt-Col Asher Leventon (1870-1938), Indian Medical Service 1895-1925, including papers and photographs relating to the Apa Tanang Expedition 1897, and a diary and scrapbook of his service in India.
Draft of epitaph by Lord Macaulay (1800-59) on Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, Baron Metcalfe (1785-1846), Bengal Civil Service 1801-38, Acting Governor-General of India 1835-36, Governor of Jamaica 1839-42, Governor-General of Canada 1843- 45. Dated as: no date
Papers of H O P Evans, Indian Civil Service, Burma
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Evans Collection: letters, papers and photographs of Harry Oxford Paton Evans (1907-36), Indian Civil Service, Burma 1930-36, relating to his life and career in Burma and the Northern Shan States.
Letter of authorisation, dated 28 Jan 1625, from James Ley, 1st Earl of Marlborough (1550-1629), Lord Treasurer 1624-28, granting a concession in customs levied in London on broken coral shipped by the East India Company from Leghorn for re- export to India.