Translation of letter from Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805), Governor-General of Bengal 1786-93 and 1805, to Raja Gaurinath Singh of Assam, announcing the appointment of Hugh Baillie, Bengal Civil Service 1776-c1797, as Resident at Goalpora.
Letters received by Lt-Col Henry William Preedy (1810-85), Bombay Army 1828-60, chiefly from Lt-Gen Sir Charles James Napier (1782-1853), Governor of Sind 1841-47, C-in-C, India 1849-50, and including references to military and political affairs in Sind.
Draft and fair copy of memoir, dated 1981, by Professor Hugh Russell Tinker (b 1921), Indian Army 1941-45, Indian Civil Administration 1945-46, of his wartime service in Burma and India, and of his time as a civil servant in India.
Letter, dated 14 Mar 1885, to Lord Walsingham from Maharaja Duleep Singh (1838-93), enclosing printed letter and statement concerning his estates in the Punjab addressed to the Secretary of State for India.
Memorial, dated 27 Dec 1788, by Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), botanist, President of the Royal Society 1778-1820, sent to the Deputy Chairman of the East India Company on the possibility of introducing tea cultivation into India.
Letters home to his mother, sisters and brothers from Maj-Gen James Archibald Douglas (1862-1932), Indian Army 1885-1920; also two memorabilia of the Delhi Durbar, 1911, of his brother Col Walter Binny Douglas (1868-1939), Indian Army 1892-1921; including a book entitled A Sketch of the Services of the Bengal Native Army to the Year 1895 by Lt F. G. Cardew. [Photograph albums of the Douglas family have been transferred to Prints, Drawings & Photographs].
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Letters home to his mother, sisters and brother from Maj-Gen James Archibald Douglas (1862-1932), Indian Army 1885-1920; also two memorabilia of the Delhi Durbar 1911, of his brother Col Walter Binny Douglas (1868-1939), Indian Army 1892-192; also, book entitled "A Sketch Of the Services Of The B...