Coote Collection: papers of and relating to Lt-Gen Sir Eyre Coote (1726-83), British Army c1745-83, C-in-C, India 1779-83, chiefly relating to the Mysore War, 1780-84; also photocopy of typescript edition of Coote's journals of events in India 1756-57 and 1759-61.
Papers of Arnold and Cornelia Bake, indologists, scholars and performers of Indian music
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Bake Collection: papers, correspondence and photographs of Arnold Adriaan Bake (b 1899), Reader in Sanskrit, University of London 1949-63, and of his wife Cornelia Bake, including miscellaneous material relating to their visits to India, and memorabilia of Rabindranath Tagore.
Papers of the Calcutta Tent Club formed to facilitate meets for pigsticking
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Records of the Calcutta Tent Club formed to facilitate meets for pigsticking, including club rules, membership lists, accounts, correspondence, hunting journals and notes, articles on pigsticking copied from early magazines, and plans of an elephant's howdah.
Copies of papers collected by Ray Desmond for writing his book on 'The India Museum 1801-1879' (London 1982)
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Copies of documents, papers and correspondence relating to the history of the India Museum, collected by Raymond George Coulter Desmond (b 1925), Deputy Librarian at the India Office Library and Records 1973-85, for his book `The India Museum 1801-1879' (London 1982).
Papers of Cyril Walter Lloyd Jones relating to the Nizam's State Railway, Hyderabad, of which he was an employee 1904-41
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Lloyd Jones Collection: papers of Cyril Walter Lloyd Jones (1881-1981), engineer with the Nizam's State Railway, Hyderabad 1904-13, Chief Engineer 1913-19, Agent 1919-30, Managing Director 1930-41, including correspondence, technical material, photographs, and memoirs by himself and his son.
Papers of Sir Francis Younghusband (1863-1942) and other members of his family
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Younghusband Collection: papers of Lt-Col Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1863-1942), British Army 1882, Indian Foreign Dept 1889-1909, British Commissioner to Tibet 1903-04, religious thinker; his wife Helen Augusta (nee Magniac) (1861-1945); his daughter Dame Eileen Louise Younghusband (1902-8...
Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten papers.
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Mountbatten Collection: photocopies of correspondence and papers of Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979) as Viceroy and Governor-General of India 1947-48. [See also IOR Neg 15538-67 for microfilm copies which are more complete for the Go...