Papers of Charles Melville Pym and the Greenhill Family
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Letters of Charles Melville Pym (1834-1888), 75th Regiment of Foot; and papers of the Greenhill family comprising an Ayah Agreement, family photographs and newspaper cuttings
Letters of Thomas Machell (1824-1862), traveller and planter
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Two letters from Thomas Machell, Rooderpore Factory, Bongong, Bengal, to Mrs John Ditmas, Minister Yard, York, England, describing his life in India as manager of the indigo estate. The letters are dated 12th November 1850 and 1st December 1851. The 1850 letter is illustrated with small sketch...
The collection consists of the following papers: 7 letters written by James Jackson to his family in Enfield, England, 1793-1796 (ff.1-17). The letters concern family news, serving on HMS Suffolk, voyage to Madras, the sinking of HMS Diomede, conflict with the Dutch at Trincomalee in 1795 and a...
Papers relating to Sir Francis Workman Macnaghten (1763-1843), Judge of the Supreme Court of Madras 1809-1815, Senior Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William, Bengal 1815-1825; Sir William Hay Macnaghten, Bart (1793-1841), Madras Army 1809, Bengal Civil Service 1814-41, Envoy and Minister at the Afghan Court of Shah Shuja from 1838; and other members of the Macnaghten family
Papers of Sergey Tarasovitch Prokofieff (1887-1957), Engineer, and his wife Emilie Prokofieff (nee Rettere) (1903-1997), comprising files relating to water work improvement projects in Bombay and Gwalior, memoirs, correspondence, printed material and photographs. Includes material relating to th...
"Unimportant Story", a memoir of the life and career of Lieutenant General Sir Ernest William Charles Bradfield (1880-1963), Indian Medical Service 1903-1939
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The memoir has the following chapters: Early Days Hospital Days Early Days of Indian Service [includes an account of a hunting expedition to Mahableshwar in 1908] A Week-end War Regimental Duty 1908-1912 Civil [Surgeon] Madras 1912-1914 The First World War Period Back to Madras: American Deputa...