Letters, photographs, and documents relating to the life of Richard Desmond Taylor (1923-1944), RAF officer, and correspondence between family members during the Second World War.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939-2000
Extent:
1 volume of scanned copies of letters, photographs and other papers
Eleven letters from Evelyn Spencer Boscawen (1803-1845) and Mary Foy (née Boscawen. fl. 1827-1840), wife of Captain W H Foy of East India Company service at Bombay, to their sister Mrs John Foy ('Lizzy' Elizabeth Spencer Boscawen) of Cheltenham, later of Ramsgate, England. 1. 11 Jan 1830 (4 ff....
R P Abigail (1892-1969), 2/7 Ghurkas Regiment, 1918-1922. ICS Burma Office, 1922-1943. The Tour Diary describes an expedition to Dibang Valley for the training of the column of Assam Rifles in 1920.
Evacuation Memoirs of Phyllis Lattimer from Taunggyi in the Southern Shan States of Burma to India in March 1942
Scope & Content:
Phyllis Lattimer (1912-1987), governess to Ford family in Burma, 1938-1949, describes her experience of evacuation from Burma to India during World War II while working with the family of Lt Col Frank O'Neil Ford of Burma Rifles.
Correspondence between Gilbert Cecil Gaunt Lewis and Margaret B D Lewis (nee Gilpin-Brown)
Scope & Content:
Letters from Captain Gilbert Cecil Gaunt Lewis (1899-?) Indian Army, 1919-1939, to his wife Margaret Bruce Dundas Lewis (nee Gilpin-Brown), describing army life and political situation in Waziristan and other parts of British India, 1923-1930. Letters from Margaret Lewis to her mother Laura Louis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923-1931
Extent:
88 letters in original envelopes, 4 envelopes of ephemera, 1 CD of transcriptions, and transcripts printout.
Metcalfe family papers and papers of Sir Charles Bayley
Scope & Content:
Comprises two collections: 1) letters from Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe (1785-1846) to his sister Georgiana from India, Jamaica, and Canada (1819-1845). 2) letters from Sir Edward Clive Bayley (1821-1884) to his wife, Emily Anne Theophila (nee Metcalfe) and printed material and manuscripts
'Every Memsahib's Daily Account Book' of Vera Brooke Cheverton
Scope & Content:
Vera Brooke Cheverton (1898-1974), followed her husband Frank Cheverton, an engineer in Indian Army, to India and lived there from 1918-1946. The 'Daily Account Book' records her daily expenditures in India from 1940 to 41. Includes a separate sheet of typed biographical information on Vera Cheve...
Diaries of Mrs Edward Webster, née Ainsworth (1802-1883), mother-in-law of Sir M.E. Grant Duff
Scope & Content:
Hanna Ainsworth (1802-1883), daughter of Richard Ainsworth of Moss Bank and Smithills Hall, Bolton le Moors, Lancashre, married Edward Webster, a lawyer in London in 1834. Their daughter Anna Julia Webster married Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (1829-1906), Under-Secretary of State for I...
'The Land of the Sun, letters and journals of three Victorian ladies in India', edited by Rosemary Houlston
Scope & Content:
Transcripts of journals and letters of three women travellers in India with preface and introduction by Rosemary Houlston, based on original mss held in the India Office Private Papers: 1. Mss Eur B265, Journal of Emma Walters, the captain's wife, travels in North West India 1838-1851 2. Mss E...
Notebook compiled by Major Meysey George Dallas Clive (1907-1943)
Scope & Content:
A small notebook compiled during Major Clive's period as an ADC to the Viceroy of India, Lord Willingdon, in 1931-1933, detailing alterations to the Viceroy's house by Lady Willingdon.