Typescript copies of letters from Brigade-Surgeon Francis Collins (1832-1925), Assistant-Surgeon, 5th Fusiliers, British Army, describing his experiences during the Indian mutiny including the first and second reliefs of Lucknow.
Typescript copies of letters from Franklin Richardson Kendall (1839-1907), employed by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, to his mother in England; also annotated and indexed version.
Letter, dated East India House 30 Dec 1858, from Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820-77), Surveyor to the East India Company, to Sir George Gilbert Scott, architect of the new India Office, discussing the space required in the new building.
List, dated 17 Jan 1844, of officers and other men `present with Head Quarters and Two Squadrons of the Ninth or Queen's Royal Lancers engaged at the Battle of Punniar on the 29th December 1843'; with a few other miscellaneous papers.
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List, dated 17 Jan 1844, of officers and other men `present with Head Quarters and Two Squadrons of the Ninth or Queen's Royal Lancers engaged at the Battle of Punniar on the 29th December 1843'; with a few other miscellaneous papers.
Letters, dated 1759-c1773, from Commodore George Johnstone (1730-1787), Royal Navy, East India Company Director 1783-85; and letters, dated 1766-73, from John Johnstone (1734-1795), East India Company servant, Bengal 1750-1765; to their brother William Johnstone, later Sir William Pulteney, Bart ...
A report on the Northern Circars, ceded to the East India Company 1766 and 1768 by the Nizam of Hyderabad, probably written c1772-73, by a Madras civil servant, and mainly dealing with their revenue.
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A report on the Northern Circars, ceded to the East India Company 1766 and 1768 by the Nizam of Hyderabad, probably written c1772-73, by a Madras civil servant, and mainly dealing with their revenue.
Copies of papers by Leonard George Pinnell (1896-1979), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1920-47, Private Secretary to Governor of Bengal 1935-37, Development Commissioner 1946-47: (a) notes for talk to Rotary Club on aspects of rural development in Bengal (1946); (b) reflections on`Development Plann...
Letter from Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900), oriental scholar, Corpus Professor of Comparative Philology, Oxford University 1868-1900, in reply to an enquiry from Sir Charles Wood (1800-85), Secretary of State for India, giving his views on Sir Anthony Panizzi's proposal that the India Office Li...
Five letters from Thomas Mawe (1816-1857), Bengal Medical Service 1844-1857, to his sister in England, chiefly on the outbreak and progress of the Indian Mutiny at Nowgong, Bundelkhand.
Letters on natural history topics from Sir Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), East India Company servant 1795-1824, Lieutenant-Governor of Java 1811-16, Governor of Benkulen 1818-24, founder of Singapore 1819, to Dr Thomas Horsfield (1773-1859), who served Dutch and British in Java, Sumatra and Banka ...