`The provision of books and libraries by the East India Company in India 1611-1858' by Dora Lockyer (thesis for Fellowship of the Library Association, 1977).
Typescript of the prison diary written secretly in a prayer-book by Captain Arthur Conolly (1807-42), Bengal Army 1823-42, envoy to Khiva 1840-42, before his execution by the Amir of Bokhara. [Another copy of Mss Eur B 29].
`Khyber Frontiers in Turmoil': copy of unpublished account by Randolph Bezzant Holmes (1888-1973), professional and military photographer and amateur artist in Peshawar, chiefly describing events in India, Pakistan and Kashmir 1947-48.
Copies of letters to Edward John Thompson (1886-1946), writer, educational missionary at Bankura College, Bengal 1910-22; from Sir William Foster (1863-1951), Superintendent of Records, India Office 1907-23, Historiographer to the India Office 1923-27; Herbert Niel Randle (1880-1973), Assistant L...
Typescript histories of the Chin Hills Battalion 1894-1933 and in 1942; also lists of its Commandants and junior officers; compiled by Lt-Col Alleyn Cardwell Moore (b 1898), Indian Army from 1916, Commandant, Chin Hills Battalion 1932-36 and 1938-42.
Copy of letter, dated 21 Feb 1926, from Leslie Nanscawen Brown (b 1886), Indian Civil Service, Bombay 1911-36, to his mother, describing his temporary guardianship of the Pir Pagaro of Sind; also brief note (c1927) by Mrs Brown, describing life in camp.
Copies of correspondence about the scuttling of the East Indiaman `Denham', on 31 Mar 1760, prior to the French seizure of Fort Marlborough, Benkulen, Sumatra, and her owners' subsequent suit against the East India Company.
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Copies of correspondence about the scuttling of the East Indiaman `Denham', on 31 Mar 1760, prior to the French seizure of Fort Marlborough, Benkulen, Sumatra, and her owners' subsequent suit against the East India Company.
`The problem of Watch and Ward on the North-West Frontier': copy of lecture given at Delhi by (Sir) Ambrose Dundas Flux Dundas (1899-1973), Indian Civil Service 1922-47, Chief Secretary to Government, North-West Frontier Province 1937-41, Resident in Waziristan 1940-43, Governor of the NWFP 1948-49.
Copy, with photographs, of an account of `An inspection tour in Garwhal, United Provinces, The Himalayas, Autumn 1938' by Kathleen Hatfield, wife of Morgan Besley Hatfield (b 1893), Indian Service of Engineers, United Provinces 1919-47.