Papers of Martin Cameron Comrie (1886-1975?), Deputy Commissioner, Indian Civil Service 1911-1936
Scope & Content:
1. letters and postcards (14 folios): including a postcard and accompanying letter dated 1 October 1932 threatening to assassinate all five European families in Balaghat, Central Provinces by a so-called Anarchist (ff.1-3); three letters to Mr Comrie dated 1934 from Lord Willingdon, Viceroy of I...
Papers of Beatrice Irene Magraw (née May; 1888- 1970s), wife of Charles Magraw, an Anglican clergyman and duputy headmaster of Bishop Cotton School in Simla, India, 1920-1922.
Scope & Content:
Magraw was a writer of poetry, articles and history books for children. She also wrote history programmes for children for the BBC. She taught for the WEA and at Bishop Cotton School in Simla, India, where her husband was deputy headmaster 1920-1922. Many of her letters home from India for this ...
Letter from the King of Candea (Ceylon) dated 18 July 1796 to Robert Andrews, Madras Civil Service and collector of Trinchinopoli, 1778-1796; appointed as Resident of Ceylon following the capture of Ceylon from the Dutch on 14 Feb 1796
Scope & Content:
Original letter in old Singhalese script, accompanied by an English translation, and a contemporary typed transcript and interpretation of the letter by the previous owner.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1796
Extent:
3 folios; 1 seal detached from letters; 1 folio of typescript
King William IV's Warrant authorizing a scheme for the further distribution of the Deccan Booty, signed 31 Jan 1832
Scope & Content:
Deccan Booty refers to the prize money and plunder taken by the British Forces of the East India Company during the war with the Maratha State of Deccan, India, 1817-1818. By an earlier Warrant from King George IV in 1823, the Duke of Wellington as Master General of Ordnance, and Charles Arbuth...
Papers of Sir Horace Algernon Fraser Rumbold (1906-1993), UK Civil Servant 1929-1966 and President of the Tibet Society of the United Kingdom 1977-1988
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, articles and newspaper cuttings relating to the work of Sir Algernon Rumbold on Tibet, and to the work of the Tibet Society of the United Kingdom
Papers of James William Abbot Michell (1840-1927), Indian Army 1858-1890
Scope & Content:
Specimens of ferns from Darjeeling and the Himalayas; watercolour sketches, photographs, a book of monthly accounts, and a volume of notes and diary entries from trips to the Himalayas.