Copy of diary of Lt (later Maj-Gen) Frederick Vavasour Broome Witts (1889-1969), Royal Engineers 1907-43, Indian Army 1913-43, written while he was on sick leave in Kashmir.
Typescript copy of memoir, dated 9 Jun 1858, by Mary Louisa Goldney (b 1815), wife of Lt-Col Philip Goldney (1802-57), Bengal Army 1821, Commissioner at Faizabad, describing her experiences during the Sepoy Rebellion after escaping from Sultanpur, and compiled from her letters to her married dau...
Letter, dated 6 March 1934, from Mrs Vivienne Wober (nee Solomon) to her cousin Moselle (later Mrs Samuel Solomon) describing a trip in Bihar with her two brothers, Ariel Solomon, and Samuel Solomon (b 1904), Indian Civil Service, Bihar and Orissa 1927-47.
`The Indian Connection': copies of biographical and genealogical notes compiled by Granville William Ackworth (b 1916), of the Acworth, Knowles, Close, Jenkins and Palmer families from the mid-seventeenth century; also article on `Acworth Leprosy Hospital, Bombay' (Leprosy Review, 1984). Dated...
Copy of `Memorandum on the Subject of Social and Official Intercourse between European Officers and Indian Gentlemen' (Government Press, Bihar and Orissa 1913).
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Copy of `Memorandum on the Subject of Social and Official Intercourse between European Officers and Indian Gentlemen' (Government Press, Bihar and Orissa 1913).
Typescript extracts from diary of Capt (later Maj) Roland William Wrigley Grimshaw (b 1880), Indian Army 1900-23, describing his experiences with the Poona Horse in France and convalescence in England, during the early part of the First World War.
Copies of articles by Lt-Col Charles Robert Douglas Gray (b 1909), Indian Army 1932-47, on visits to India for regimental reunions with Skinner's Horse; article by Gray on `Hog-hunting: the forgotten sport' (1975); typescript copies of memoir (1894) by Skinner's granddaughter, Elizabeth Florence ...
Copies of letters to his parents from Godfrey Oates Mann (1829-1903), Mechanical Engineer and Agent on the Great Indian Peninsular Railway 1851-53, describing his journey to India and life there; also obituary to Mann.
`A Sojurn in British India 1928-35': copy of memoir, dated 1981, by Basil Sumerling describing his experiences in India, chiefly in the south, where he was employed as a commercial assistant by the Burma-Shell Oil Company.