Papers and index cards created and accumulated by Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert Kendall Percy-Smith (1897-1975), Indian Army, chiefly containing biographical data relating to Europeans in India, lists of monumental inscriptions, and burial details.
Journal of Sir Felix Bedingfeld (1808-1884), Barrister and Colonial Secretary
Scope & Content:
Consist of mainly copies of dispatches on colonial military affairs following Sir Felix William George Richard Bedingfeld's career as Barrister and later Colonial Secretary, covering a wide scope of geographical area from Asia, Africa, to the Americas, on subjects ranging from the Third Anglo-Ma...
Letters from Peking by Olga (Molly) Orpen-Palmer (1886-1964) to her mother
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Letters written by Olga (Molly) Orpen-Palmer (1886-1964), wife of Harold Bland Herbert Orpen-Palmer, Military Attache to the British Legation at Peking, to her mother, Mrs William W Pemberton. Includes mss notes of biographical information on Harold Bland Herbert Orpen-Palmer by Julia Boyd, gran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920-1923
Extent:
14 files (12 complete letters & 2 fragments with transcripts; fragments without transcripts; pencil notes on scrap-papers)
Letter of Alexander Mackenzie (1831-1925) to his mother describing the fall of Delhi during the Indian Mutiny
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A letter written home to his mother from India, descriding the fall of Delhi in 1857, by Alexander Mackenzie of Indian Army, with pen & ink illustration of the Siege. Includes a transcript by his great-grandson Alexander N.C. Mackenzie, and photographs of his portrait, medals and other memor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1857
Extent:
1 bifolio ms (cross-written, illustrated); 2 folios typescript; 5 photographs
Wadwan Valley Report 1936 by William Pearson Dodgson (1903-1941)
Scope & Content:
William Pearson Dodgson (1903-1941), District Officer in the North West Frontier Agency, undertook a patrol in the Wadwan Valley, Kashmir, in May/June 1936 and wrote the report with photographs and 2 large maps: Kashmir & Jammu, 1914 & 1918
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1936
Extent:
1 album with typescript text and photographs; 2 folded cloth-backed maps of Kashmir
Letters from Colonel Henry Brabazon Urmston (1829-1898), and his wife Harriett (Hatty) Elizabeth Urmston (née Hughs-Hughs) to their family members in England
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Letters from Henry Brabazon Urmston (1829-1898), Col. 16th Irregular Cav., Indian Army, Dep. Commr. of the Punjab, and his wife Harriett Elizabeth (Hatty) Urmston (née Hughs-Hughs), to his mother, lady Urmston, his sister Elizabeth (Lizzy), and his children Harry, Herbert, Arthur, Bruce and othe...
Correspondence of Richard Campbell Bazett (1766-1832), East India agent and merchant
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Richard Campbell Bazett (1766-1832), born in St Helena in 1766, went to India in 1788 becoming an East India agent. In 1789, he began a partnership with Bruce de Ponthieu & Bazett, at London EC2, 1805-1815. From 1816, he formed a new partnership Bazett, Farquar & Crawford at India House,...
Title on cover: "Journey to India, Viceroy's House & Tour of India. Frank, Ella, Robin. January 21st 1939" Sir Francis Cannon Tudsbery CBE (1888-1968), lecturer of merchant law and common law. Resident at Champfleurie House, Linlithgow, Scotland from 1921 with his wife Isabella and son Robi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jan 1939-3 Apr 1939
Extent:
1 carbon copy volume of typescript; soft bound (338 pages)
Two letters of thanks from Indian farmers to Sir Thomas Jewell Bennett (1852-1925), journalist and politician
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Two letters expressing gratitude to Sir Thomas Jewell Bennett for his role in the relief of Indian Famine in 1901 signed by a group of Indian agriculturists on 30 May 1901
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 May 1901
Extent:
2 rolls of printed decorative letters with signatures
Diaries of Daisy Isabella McMahon, later Lady Couchman (c 1875-1961), wife of Sir Francis Dundas Couchman(1864-1948), Under Secretary to the Government of India for Railways 1901-1905, Indian Railway Board 1915-1920, Director of Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway 1927-1941
Scope & Content:
From the year of her 14th birthday in 1889 up to 1961, they include accounts of her life in England, India and South Africa and her journeys between; details of her investments, early motoring adventures and remarks about Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of Soviet Union (1958-1964). With tipped in ...