Papers of Sir Herbert Risley, Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1873-1910, relating to census operations, caste, and ethnography in Bengal
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Risley Collection: papers of Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1851-1911), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1873-1910, Census Commissioner for India 1899-1902, Hon Director of Ethnography for India from 1901, comprising official reports and files relating to census operations in Bengal, and correspondence, l...
Papers accumulated in the Moore family box by Messrs Winter, Williams & Company, Bedford Row, London, relating to the division of proceeds of property in Calcutta among the children of John Moore (1799-1839), Senior Member of Tulloh and Co, and of Moore, Hickey and Co, and to the estate of Mo...
Three letters from Sir John Soane (1753-1837) to Henry Holland (c1746-1806), architect, relating to the termination of a dispute between Soane and Richard Jupp (d 1799), Chief Architect and Surveyor to the East India Company.
Declaration of trust, dated 24 Jun 1816, made between Maj-Gen Sir David Ochterlony, 1st Bart (1758-1825), and Messrs George Fraser and John Morice, in respect of £4027 17s in 3% consolidated bank annuities for Ochterlony's daughters remaining unmarried at his death.
Moorsom Collection: letters, papers, diaries, notebooks, drawings and photographs of Capt William Robert Moorsom (1834-58), British Army 1852-58, ADC and Deputy Assistant Q.M.G. to Sir Henry Havelock and QMG to the division of Sir James Outram, including material relating to the siege and relief of Lucknow; also papers of and relating to other members of the Moorsom family
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Moorsom Collection: letters, papers, diaries, notebooks, drawings and photographs of Capt William Robert Moorsom (1834-58), British Army 1852-58, ADC and Deputy Assistant Q.M.G. to Sir Henry Havelock, including material relating to the siege and relief of Lucknow; also papers of and relating to ...
Family correspondence of Alexander Davidson (c1742-91), East India Company servant, Madras 1760-91, Member of Madras Council 1782-87, Acting Governor of Madras 1785-86, and of his wife Elizabeth (nee Pigou) (d 1791); also her journal, dated 1788-89.
Letters received by Horace Hayman Wilson, orientalist
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Wilson Collection (1): letters received by Horace Hayman Wilson (1786-1860), Bengal Medical Service 1808-34; Deputy Assay Master 1808-16 and Assay Master 1816-32, Calcutta Mint; Boden Professor of Sanskrit, University of Oxford 1832-60; Librarian of the East India Company and India Office Library...
Letter book, dated 1764-66, of John Spencer (c1725-67), East India Company servant, Bombay 1741-86, containing copies of his letters as Governor of Bengal 1764-65 to Laurence Sulivan (1713-86), East India Company Director 1755-86, Chairman 1758-59, 1760-62, 1781-82; MP 1762-74; also personal lett...
Papers and medical certificates of Henry Peers Dimmock (1857-1921), Bombay Medical Service 1880-1911, containing references to his service on the North-West Frontier 1880-81; in civilian hospitals and medical colleges in Bombay and Poona; and his time on the Bombay Plague Committee, 1897-1898.
Papers of and relating to Lt-Col Thomas Maughan, Bombay Army; his Afghan wife Mermanjan; and her second husband Francis O'Kearney, Bombay Medical Service
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Maughan Collection: papers of and relating to Lt-Col Thomas Maughan (1805-61), Bombay Army 1821-61, his Afghan wife Mermanjan (1833-1917), and her second husband Francis Ronayne O'Kearney (d 1911), Bombay Medical Service 1860-84, chiefly comprising personal and business letters, bills, accounts,...