Letters from Sir Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (1800-85), President of the Board of Control 1853-55, Secretary of State for India 1859-66, to 3rd Earl Grey.
Four letters from Frances (Fanny) Eden (1801-49), sister of George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, Governor-General of India 1836-42, and one from her sister Emily Eden (1797-1869), written to Elizabeth Copley.
Telegrams, dated 8 Dec 1941-3 May 1942, sent by Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith (1899- 1977), Governor of Burma 1941-46, chiefly relating to the Japanese invasion of Burma.
Letters mainly from Lt (later Capt) George Barnes (d 1824), Bombay Marine 1790-1824, to his parents; also a letter (1847) to his son, George Thomas Barnes.
Letters from James Mill (1773-1836), philosopher, Assistant Examiner of Indian Correspondence, India House 1819 and Chief Examiner 1830-36, to (Pierre) Etienne (Louis) Dumont, on matters of general interest.
Copy of Letters Patent granted to the East India Company, 31 May 1609, by which they were again incorporated in their former name, and invested with the sole exclusive trade within the limits described in their original charter of 1600.
A skit on life at India House: 'Rules and directions to be observed by Mr Chambers at the end of June 1823...to obviate the inconvenience of my absence', by Charles Lamb (1775-1834), essayist, East India Company clerk 1792-1825.
Two letters from Sibella Crozier to her cousin Ann Atkinson, written on board ship and at Batavia; also undated letter to Ann from her brother Richard, and an unfinished letter to her great-nephew Latimer (?).