Papers of Sir Alexander Brebner, Indian Service of Engineers
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Papers of Sir Alexander Brebner (1883-1979), Indian Service of Engineers 1906-38, Chief Engineer, Government of India 1931-38, mainly comprsing personal correspondence and memorabilia, with some blueprints and photographs of buildings.
List, dated May 1947, of books in the reading room and library of the United Services Club, Simla, with covering letter, dated 19 Aug 1947, from the club's assistant librarian enquiring about possible outlets for the books' disposal.
Papers chiefly concerning the career of Owen Wynne Cole (b 1862), British Army 1884-87, Government of India employee 1887-1905, Madras businessman and Indian Army Reserve Officer 1918-25.
File of notes, compiled for the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, probably by Col Walter Johnstone Armstrong (b 1907), British Army, on aspects of the war in that theatre, including Air Supply to Burma, Red Cross activities, and the repatriation of freed POWs.
Dissent, dated 14 Dec 1825, by Robert Campbell, Hugh Lindsay, John Morris and William Stanley Clarke, East India Company Directors, from Bengal Public Despatch granting George Lamb, former partner in William Palmer & Co, permission to return to India, but imposing restrictions if he went to Hyderabad.
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Dissent, dated 14 Dec 1825, by Robert Campbell, Hugh Lindsay, John Morris and William Stanley Clarke, East India Company Directors, from Bengal Public Despatch granting George Lamb, former partner in William Palmer & Co, permission to return to India, but imposing restrictions if he went to H...
Duplicate copies of minutes of meetings of the India Committee of the Royal Empire Society held to discuss the Simon Commission Report, with draft note on the Commission's scheme for the Governors' Provinces by the Committee Chairman, Sir John Henry Kerr (1871-1934), Indian Civil Service 1892-192...
Volume of information on trade with India, the Persian Gulf, Arabia and the East Indies, including tables of coins, assays, weights, measures and customs duties with a list of East India Company tonnage.
Papers of Walter Hardwick Christopher Minns (b 1870), Indian Civil Service, Burma 1891-1914, and his wife Helen, consisting chiefly of family correspondence with some photographs.