Letter from William Hulme, Sugar Engineer Expert to the Government of India, Experimental Sugar Works, Nawabganj, Bareilly, United Provinces, to his brother Charles
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In his letter Hulme writes about developments in the war (First World War), his intention to stay in India until April 1918, his hope to be able to fly home and his opinion on the future of aviation, gives news of himself (has sprained his ankle and taken rooms at the Hotel Metropole, Naini Tal)...
Marriage certificate, issued at Fort William, Calcutta, dated 25th January 1775, for Thomas Dibdin and Elizabeth Compton; and a certificate from the East India Company, dated 30th May 1801, stating that an entry of baptism in the year 1776 had been received from Calcutta for Thomas Frognal, son o...
Letter from John Lawrence, Governor of the Punjab, at Lahore, to Mr Kennedy at Dublin, describing the mutiny at Lahore. [With later envelope 1962, postmarked Co Londonderry.]
Minutes, reports, notes and appendices of meetings and work done by Committees and Sub-committees of the Indian Council of Medical Research (former Indian Research Fund Association)
Papers relating to George Collard of Walthamstow, Essex and the Royal East India Volunteers
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The volume contains material bound together by George Collard, a volunteer officer in the Royal East India Volunteers, and includes correspondence, and printed regimental lists.
Papers of Edward Philips Charlewood (b 1814), naval officer
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Journals and papers of Edward Philips Charlewood (b 1814), naval officer, relating to the Euphrates Expedition of 1835 to 1837, the navigation of the river Euphrates and the Euphrates Railway
File of correspondence between Robin William Geoffrey Powys Best (1923-1998), 13th Frontier Force Rifles, and his father Captain William Best (1895?-1953), 1942-1944; and an album of photographs taken by Robin Best, 1940s.
Diaries by a British Officer in the Kabul-Kandahar Field Force, covering his service in Afghanistan during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, and his return voyage to England
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The author of the diaries is not named in the volumes