Hartog Collection: papers and correspondence of Sir Philip Joseph Hartog (1864-1947), member, Viceroy's Commission on University of Calcutta 1917-19; Vice-Chancellor of University of Dacca 1920-25; member, Indian Public Service Commission 1926-30; Chairman, Education Committee, Indian Statutory C...
Copies of articles (some unpublished) and other scholarly papers and correspondence of Sir George Abraham Grierson (1851-1941), Indian Civil Service 1873-1903, Superintendent of the Linguistic Survey of India 1898-1902; orientalist
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Grierson Collection: copies of articles (some unpublished) and other scholarly papers and correspondence of Sir George Abraham Grierson (1851-1941), Indian Civil Service 1873-1903, Superintendent of the Linguistic Survey of India 1898-1902; oriental scholar.
Personal and official papers of Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson, Finance Member Governor-General s Council 1908-13; Acting Viceroy 1912
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Fleetwood Wilson Collection: correspondence and papers of Sir Guy Douglas Arthur Fleetwood Wilson (1850-1940), Finance Member, Viceroy's Executive Council 1908-13, Acting Viceroy 1912.
Papers of George Bogle, East India Company servant, chiefly concerned with his visit to the Tashi Lama of Tibet, 1774-75
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Bogle Collection: papers of George Bogle (1746-81), East India Company servant 1769-81, mainly concerned with his visit to the Tashi Lama of Tibet 1774-75.
Diary by an unknown army officer of marches in Bengal, c1790; also two letters, dated 1805-06, received probably by the same officer while in command at Ghazipur, from Col Miles Nighting- all and Lt-Col G A F Lake, private secretaries respectively to the Governor-General and the C-in-C, India, relating to the pay of his troops, and their inspection by the C-in-C.
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Diary by an unknown army officer of marches in Bengal, c1790; also two letters, dated 1805-06, received probably by the same officer while in command at Ghazipur, from Col Miles Nighting- all and Lt-Col G A F Lake, private secretaries respectively to the Governor-General and the C-in-C, India, re...
Draft of letter, dated 7 Jul 1619, from Robert Parker, Agent for the East India Company at Bantam, to the King of Taiwan and Amoy, acknowledging the King's present of liberty of trade in his territories and care that the Company's affairs should suffer no wrong.
Covenant, dated 24 Oct 1906, of Alfred Master (1883-1978) with the Secretary of State in Council, on his appointment to the Indian Civil Service, Bombay.
Letters from Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive (1725-74), Governor of Bengal 1757-60 and 1765-67 to Harry Verelst, member of Select Committee, Bengal, with copies of related correspond- ence, concerning the administration of Bengal including revenue matters, relations with Indian rulers, and the muti...
Narrative by Capt (later Lt-Col) Thomas Fiott de Havilland (1775-1866), Madras Army 1793-1825, of his part in the mutiny of European officers of the Madras Army at Seringapatam 1809 and subsequent events up to the Court Martial, with copies of supporting documents.