Notes on the history of Bombay taken from the East India Company's `Original Correspondence' [IOR E/3] and Bombay Factory Records [IOR G/3] by Oliver Strachey (1874-1960).
Three `Political Letter Books' of Claud Russell (1733-1820), East India Company servant, Madras 1752-c1782, Member of Madras Council 1771-77; also two folders of papers relating to the arrest in 1776 of George, Lord Pigot (1719-77), Governor of Madras 1755-63 and 1775-76, and subsequent legal pr...
Miscellaneous letters and papers of General Sir James Abbott (1807-96), Bengal Artillery 1823, Deputy Commissioner, Hazara 1847-53, including news of Hazara after Abbott left
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Miscellaneous letters and papers of General Sir James Abbott (1807-96), Bengal Artillery 1823, Commissioner, Hazara 1845-53, including news of Hazara after Abbott had left.
Papers and diaries of Sir Robert Reid, Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1907-42, Governor of Assam 1937-42, Acting-Governor of Bengal 1938 and 1939
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Reid Collection: papers and diaries of Sir Robert Niel Reid (1883-1964), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1907-42, Governor of Assam 1937-42, Acting Governor of Bengal 1938 and 1939.
Papers relating to tea planting in India, particularly to the Dooars Tea Company Ltd, including correspondence of Frederick T Verner (d 1917), General Superintendent of the Company, with his brother William H Verner (d 1902), Chairman of the Company
Certificates of appointment and accounts, dated 1830-50, of David Davies (1809-51), Bombay Medical Service 1837-51; and accounts, dated 1851-67, of his widow Maria.
Unpublished draft catalogue (compiled c1942) by Frederick William Thomas (1867-1956), Librarian of the India Office Library 1903-27, Boden Professor of Sanskrit, University of Oxford 1927-37, of the Tibetan manuscripts collected during the third Stein Expedition (1906-08). Dated as: no date
Commissions and papers of James Finlayson (d c1853), an Assistant Elder at two East India Company London warehouses: the Coast and Surat Warehouse 1815-20, and the Bengal Warehouse 1820-29; with official lists of his duties.