Summary of the reforms introduced in the administration of the Andamans and Nicobars
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Report by Lt-Col Montague William Douglas, Superintendent, Port Blair, 1 Dec 1917. Include also two letters to Sir Richard Carnac Temple (1850-1931), Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar islands, 1894-1904.
Letters of Marque from the East India Company addressed to Alexander Foggo
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Alexander Foggo (c1760-1821), East India Company naval officer, captain of the ships Trimmer and Laurill, also in command of the Belle on its maiden voyage from Calcutta to London in 1805, and again on its return journey when it was captured by the French in 1806. The Log of the Belle is in Ma...
Papers of Leslie Best (1896-1932) and Sir Norman Bolton (1875-1965)
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Correspondence and photographs of Sir Horatio Norman Bolton (1875-1965), Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province 1923-25, 1926-30, and Leslie William Hazlitt Duncan Best (1896-1932), Assistant Private Secretary to the Viceroy of India Lord Irwin 1922-26, Private Secretary to Lord R...
Manuscript journal of Samuel Landon covering sea-service with the East India Company from 1788 until 1813. Descriptions of voyages to India, China, Macao, Russia (St Petersburgh 1800) and Scotland. Subsequently written from the surviving original notes and incorporating 7 watercolours. Samuel ...
Papers relating to members of the Lawrence family, particularly Catherine Letitia Lawrence (nee Knox), Richard Charles Lawrence (1817-1896) and his wife Ellen Lawrence (nee Youngson), Sir John Lawrence (1811-1879) and Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence (1806 –1857), including newspapers, family tree, ...
Supplement Catalogue of Oriental antiquities by Claudius James Rich (1787-1820)
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A manuscript volume by C. J. Rich later published in his Mines de l'Orient (1815). Contents: list of Arabian historians, Persian historians, Cufic coins, Greek coins, Parthian coins, Armenian coins, Roman coins, Babylonian antiquities, Nineveh antiquities, and Chaldean & Syriac manuscripts.