`Military and Other Services of the Hearsey Family': printed records of services chiefly compiled by by Capt Andrew William Hearsey (1838-96), Bengal Army 1855-66, with two more recent additions.
Miscellaneous papers of the Muston family in India, including William Pitts Muston (1779-1837), Bengal Medical Service 1801-37; Harington James Muston (b 1814), Bengal Salt Department 1834-63; Harington James Muston (1846-1919), lay missionary in the Santal District of Bengal.
Note by Sir Horace Algernon Fraser Rumbold, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Commonwealth Relations Office 1958-66, on the international background to the conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir in 1965.
Letters and papers from and concerning Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) received by Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Baron Irwin, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881-1959), formerly Viceroy of India 1926-31, Government Minister 1932-40.
Obituary to Sir Benegal Rama Rau (1889-1969), Indian Civil Service 1913-44, by Ian Stephens, from the Annual Report of King's College, Cambridge, Nov 1971.
`A Grenadier's Diary 1842-1856': typescript transcript of diary of Robert Waterfield, a British Army private, describing his service in England and Ireland, and in India 1846-57, and criticising the organisation of the British army. Transcription dated 1973. Published as The Memoirs of Private...
Copies of official and personal correspondence of Sir Thomas Rumbold, 1st Bart (1736-91), East India Company civil and military service 1752-69, Governor of Madras 1778-80, his wife Joanna (nee Law), and other members of the Rumbold family.
The log book of William Adams (1564-1620), navigator and adventurer, containing the journals of the following voyages from Japan: to Ryukyu Islands 1614-15, 1618; to Cochin China 1617; to Tonkin 1619.