Papers of Sir (Charles) Lewis Tupper (1848-1910), Indian Civil Service, Punjab 1877-1907, temporary member, Governor-General's Council 1905-1906; including copies of papers on `Punjab Progress' (1891) and `Panjab University Affairs' (1905); and copies of telegrams (1905) on the Curzon-Kitchener c...
Miscellaneous papers of Leslie Howard Vincent French (b 1912), Indian Civil Service, Punjab 1938-44, including a memoir entitled `The Beginnings of a Civil Servant in India'.
3rd duplicate copy of bill of exchange, dated 2 Dec 1783, for £1041.13s.4d payable at 365 days, drawn by the Government of Bengal on the East India Company in favour of George Waugh on account of the investment loan.
Copy of typescript transcript, made 1950, by Mary Rowlatt of letters of her great-grandparents Sidney Terry (c1801-47), merchant, assistant, Higginson and Caldwell, Bombay 1844-47, his wife Sarah and other members of their family, mainly describing life in Alexandria and Bombay. [For originals se...
`Golden years and times of stress': memoirs of Sir Henry Joseph Twynam (1887-1966), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1910-46, Governor of Central Provinces and Berar 1940-46; also copy of his published speeches on the war effort in the Central Provinces, dated 1940-42.
Copies of letters from Maj George R Clowes and Maj Robert Poore, 8th Hussars, to their families in England and Ireland, describing events during the Indian mutiny at Gwalior, Jaipur and Udaipur, and the pursuit of Tantia Topi.
Printed `Abstract of the Articles of War in English, Persian and Hindoostanee; the latter in Naguree and Roman characters' (Calcutta 1807); `Alterations made this year in the Mutiny Act and Articles of War' (1811); and manuscript copy of the form of oath to be taken by officers of Courts Martial (1813).
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Printed `Abstract of the Articles of War in English, Persian and Hindoostanee; the latter in Naguree and Roman characters' (Calcutta 1807); `Alterations made this year in the Mutiny Act and Articles of War' (1811); and manuscript copy of the form of oath to be taken by officers of Courts Martial ...
`Major-General Sir David Ochterlony, Bart., G.C.B.': (Edinburgh 1903): reprint of article on Ochterlony from the `Dictionary of National Biography', with additional biographical material mainly from published sources, compiled by by Sir David Ferguson Ochterlony, 3rd Bart.
Copies of letters, dated Kabul 1840-41, from Lt-Col William Henry Dennie (1785-1842), British Army, compiled from the `Bombay Times' by Elizabeth Leslie in 1843.
`Some account of the part taken by the 79th Regiment or Cameron Highlanders in the Indian Mutiny Campaign in 1858', by Capt Douglas Wimberley, sometime adjutant of the 79th: privately reprinted from the `Highland Monthly' (Inverness 1891).