Secret telegram, dated 6 Sep 1946, from Field Marshal Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883-1950), Viceroy of India 1943-47, to Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India 1945-47, expressing hope that reports that Sir Stafford Cripps is to become Secretary of State for India are untrue; and if true suggesting appointment of A V Alexander.
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Secret telegram, dated 6 Sep 1946, from Field Marshal Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883-1950), Viceroy of India 1943-47, to Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India 1945-47, expressing hope that reports that Sir Stafford Cripps is to become Secretary of State for Ind...
Memoir, dated 1984, by Thomas Edward Gay (alias Waterfield) (b 1905), Indian Civil Service, Bombay 1929-47, of his life and career in India; a few poems; and two articles 'Forty-Six Years Ago: the Poona of 1930' (1976)' and 'Long Live the Babus' (1984). Waterfield remained in India after independence, changing his name to Gay, and became 'completely merged in India, thinking of myself as an Indian, and accepted as such by my fellow citizens'.
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Memoir, dated 1984, by Thomas Edward Gay (alias Waterfield) (b 1905), Indian Civil Service, Bombay 1929-47, of his life and career in India; a few poems; and two articles 'Forty-Six Years Ago: the Poona of 1930' (1976)' and 'Long Live the Babus' (1984). Waterfield remained in India after indepe...
'The Amazing Major': biographical note, dated 1981, by Jasper Newsome on Michel de St Elias Warwick (d c1950), a woman posing as a Major who came to Jeolikot in the Kumaon foothills in the 1920s and built a Carmelite monastery.
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'The Amazing Major': biographical note, dated 1981, by Jasper Newsome on Michel de St Elias Warwick (d c1950), a woman posing as a Major who came to Jeolikot in the Kumaon foothills in the 1920s and built a Carmelite monastery.
Papers and photographs of William Morgan Moylan (1863-1924)
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Papers and photographs of William Morgan Moylan (1863-1924), railway engineer in India 1889-1924, relating in particular to tunnel constructionand including photographs of work in progress; also photopgraphs and biographical data on the Moylan, Routh, and related families.
Diary by Miss Lesley Lawrence (b 1909) of her visit to India to stay with her aunt Evelyn, wife of Sir John Murray Ewart (1884-1939), Indian Police 1905-39, Director, Intelligence Bureau, Govt of India from 1936.
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Diary by Miss Lesley Lawrence (b 1909) of her visit to India to stay with her aunt Evelyn, wife of Sir John Murray Ewart (1884-1939), Indian Police 1905-39, Director, Intelligence Bureau, Govt of India from 1936.
Printed copy of resolutions, passed on 19 Feb 1812 at a 'numerous and respectable General Meeting of the Merchants, Traders, and other Inhabitants' of Bristol on the approaching expiration of the East India Company's Charter, advocating the opening of the East India trade to Bristol and the other Out Ports, and appointing a Committee to propose measures and correspond with the other Out Ports, with copy of letter sent to the Out Ports.
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Printed copy of resolutions, passed on 19 Feb 1812 at a 'numerous and respectable General Meeting of the Merchants, Traders, and other Inhabitants' of Bristol on the approaching expiration of the East India Company's Charter, advocating the opening of the East India trade to Bristol and the other...
Copies of letters from Lt-Gen Sir John Clavering (1772-77), C-in-C, India and member of Governor-General's Council 1774-77, and Philip Francis, to Lord North and others, and related papers, concerning the frustration of Clavering's attempt to become Governor-General following news of acceptance by the Court of Directors in London of the purported resignation of Warren Hastings and its repudiation by Hastings in India.
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Copies of letters from Lt-Gen Sir John Clavering (1772-77), C-in-C, India and member of Governor-General's Council 1774-77, and Philip Francis, to Lord North and others, and related papers, concerning the frustration of Clavering's attempt to become Governor-General following news of acceptance b...
Personal correspondence of Geoffrey Weatherill Bonsall
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Personal correspondence of Geoffrey Weatherill Bonsall, Hong Kong University Press, with various persons and institutions regarding the work of the British artist George Chinnery (1774-1852), including correspondence on Chinnery's shorthand.
Typescript copy of 'Extracts from my Diaries and Echoes from my Memory', written c1887-89, by General Sir John Watson (1829-1919), Bombay Army from 1848 apparently incomplete).
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Typescript copy of 'Extracts from my Diaries and Echoes from my Memory', written c1887-89, by General Sir John Watson (1829-1919), Bombay Army from 1848 apparently incomplete).