`Kandahar News', nos 1-227, dated 9 Apr-31 Dec 1879: manuscript garrison newspaper edited by Charles Edward Pitman, Telegraph Dept, Government of India 1868-1900, on special telegraph duties with Afghanistan Field Force 1878-79.
Government and General Orders Book, dated Dec 1810-Sep 1811, apparently compiled at the Headquarters, Port Louis, Mauritius, of the British Force which took the island.
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Government and General Orders Book, dated Dec 1810-Sep 1811, apparently compiled at the Headquarters, Port Louis, Mauritius, of the British Force which took the island.
Typescript copies of correspondence in the Sind Government Record Office of and relating to the conduct and activities of Charles Masson (1800-53), (pseudonym of James Lewis), Bengal Artillery 1822, deserted 1827, traveller, Agent to the Government of India at Kabul 1834-36. Compiled, c1939, by M...
Copies of correspondence concerning the records and library of Tipu Sultan, taken at the fall of Seringapatam 1799, including analyses of the documents relating to his diplomatic manoeuvres, and lists of books allocated by the Prize Agents to the Asiatic Society of Bengal and the East India Compa...
Unpublished mss of George Temple (d 1914), oriental scholar, tutor to various families, private secretary to Raja Rampal Singh: `The Indian Exchequer'; `An Introduction and Companion to the History of India' [apparently intended for his `India - Ancient and Modern', Allahabad 1890]; ` A word abou...
Volume apparently compiled by Capt Lieutenant (later Field Marshal Sir) George Pollock, 1st Bart (1786-1872), Bengal Artillery 1803, containing reports of gunnery, mortar and howitzer practice, specimen administrative forms, regimental standing orders, and other papers and drawings on artillery e...
Papers of Col (later Maj-Gen) William Miles (d 1860), Bombay Army 1800-34, Political Agent, Palanpur 1817-30, comprising diary of his negotiations at Radhanpur (1822-25); translation of history of Babi Pathans, Nawabs of Radhanpur (nd); `An account of the principality of Esdur' [Idar] (1821-22]; ...
Letter (nd) in German with Indian translation from Count Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856-1921), German Chancellor 1909-17 to the Thakur Sahib of Gondal, encouraging opposition to British rule in India and advocating the German view of the 1st World War; copy of letter to Amir of Afghanistan i...
Letters from Col Philip Meadows Taylor (1808-76), military service of Nizam of Hyderabad 1824-60, Commissioner of Shorapur 1841-53 and 1858-60, `Times' correspondent in India 1840-53, to Henry Reeve (1813-95), civil servant, man of letters, on staff of `Times' 1840-55; commenting on life and poli...
