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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F723
Title:: Journals of the East India Company ship Boddam
Scope & Content:: Ship's journals kept by George Palmer (1772-1853), officer on the East India Company ship Boddam
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1786-1800
Extent:: 5 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F724
Title:: Journals of Charles Alfred Barber (1860-1933), Government Botanist, Madras Presidency 1898-1912; Sugar-cane Expert to the Government of India 1912-1919; Lecturer on Tropical Agriculture, University of Cambridge 1919-1933
Scope & Content:: The journals document Barber's work and travels, and his social life in India. They describe his extensive tours, surveying the botany and investigating plant diseases. The journals also include his tenure as head of the Agricultural College at Coimbatore from 1908, and his involvement in develop...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1899-1918
Extent:: 23 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F725
Title:: Colour reproduction of a letter from S N Sen, Keeper, Imperial Record Department, conveying the suggestion of the Indian Historical Records Commission to change the name of the department to National Archives of India
Scope & Content:: Colour reproduction of a letter from S N Sen, Keeper, Imperial Record Department, conveying the suggestion of the Indian Historical Records Commission to change the name of the department to National Archives of India
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Aug 1947
Extent:: Framed item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F726
Title:: Papers of Eva Carless relating to her visit to India
Scope & Content:: Copy of the diary of Eva Pattullo (nee Carless) (b 1900) describing her trip to India from the 9th October 1936 to the 2nd April 1937 to visit her brother Harry Carless, Superintendent of Police, Allahabad. The diary (folios 2-90) covers her voyage to Bombay in the ship Kaiser-i-Hind, and records...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1936-1937
Extent:: 1 folder

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F727
Title:: Papers of Sir Alexander Brebner (1883-1979), Indian Service of Engineers 1906-38, Chief Engineer, Government of India 1931-38
Scope & Content:: The collection mainly consists of photographs of Patna, Simla, Mussoorie and New Delhi, addresses presented to Brebner, and papers relating to the award of a Knighthood
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1911-1938
Extent:: 2 volumes and 1 box

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F728
Title:: Diary of Dr Theophilus Pellat Richmond (1815-1838) of his voyage on the ship Hesperus taking Indian labourers to British Guiana
Scope & Content:: The volume includes a photograph of a painting of Theophilus Richmond, a sketch of a Mahomedan, a Parsee and a Hindu (opposite title page), a chart of Mauritius (between pages 62 and 63), a sketch of an Indian goddess (between pages 206 and 207), a chart of the West Indies and part of America (be...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1837-1838
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F729
Title:: Transcripts of interviews with former Indian soldiers who served in World War One and World War Two
Scope & Content:: The interviews were carried out by the American historian DeWitt Ellinwood (1923-2012) and a team of researchers as part of a historical survey of Indian soldiers, both officers and sepoys, who served in the Indian Army during some part of the period 1914-1939
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1967-1986
Extent:: 5 boxes

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F730
Title:: Papers of William Francis Garrod (1893-1964), Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment 1930-1946; and his wife Isobel Agnes Garrod (nee Carruthers) (1898-1976)
Scope & Content:: Correspondence, files, maps, printed papers and photographs of W F Garrod and I A Garrod relating to their family life in India, and to W F Garrod's career in the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment, and his service in World War One and World War Two
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1867-1990
Extent:: 21 boxes

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F731
Title:: Letter from Alfred Eteson (1832-1910), Bengal Medical Service 1854-1889, at Camp Amorkan, Gorruckpore, giving an account of the death of Dundas William Gordon, Bengal Artillery, who was killed at Lucknow on 8 January 1858
Scope & Content:: Eteson addressed his letter to Mrs Barnett [probably Eliza Barnett, wife of medical practitioner Henry Barnett, living in Blackheath, Kent]. He asked her to pass on the news of his friend’s death to the Gordon family who were friends of the Barnetts. Includes a transcript of the letter.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 04 Apr 1858
Extent:: 3 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F732
Title:: Papers of Emma Ewart Larkins (d 1857), wife of Major George Larkins (1807-1857), Bengal Artillery
Scope & Content:: Papers of Emma Ewart Larkins (d 1857), wife of Major George Larkins (1807-1857), Bengal Artillery. The box comprises correspondence written by Emma Larkins, primarily to her three eldest daughters Constance Marion, Alice Shaffalitsky and Ellen Mona, all living in England. Included in the corre...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1848-1914
Extent:: 4 folders

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