Extract from the `Times of India', dated 25 Jun 1931, describing the Bombay Dinner Club, a political discussion group; with related correspondence dated 1981.
Copy of journals of Capt William Cunningham (1793-1837), Madras Army 1810-37; and of memorial, dated 1852, of his father-in-law Lt-Gen Andrew Hervey (1790-1862), Bengal Army 1805-62, complaining of having been passed over for a Brigade Command.
Copy of statement of service, 1805-35, of Capt Charles Swanston (b 1789), Madras Army 1804-33; and of diary, dated 1814, of his journey from Scutari to Baghdad carrying despatches from Britain for the Governor-General of Bengal.
Copies of two letters, dated 29 Dec 1859, from Col Keith Young (1806-62), Bengal Army 1823-62, Judge Advocate General 1854-62, to his wife Frances, and one dated 20 Dec 1859 to Young from William Joseph Allen (1812-88), Bengal Civil Service 1829-65.
Copies of personal letters, dated 1847-56 and 1877, received from various persons by Lt-Col John Pitt Kennedy (1796-1879), British Army 1815; Military Secretary to Sir Charles Napier, C-in-C, India, 1849-50; built Kennedy road towards Tibet; consulting engineer to Government of India for railways...
Copy of diary, dated Jan-Sept 1863, of Capt James Jenkins Blair (1840-70), Bengal Army 1856-70, recording his daily life, and including accounts of hunting trips in Central India.
Copies of letters from Lt William Edward Prescott Cotton (1812-86), 41st Madras Native Infantry 1831-47, to his wife Harriette Elizabeth Cotton, written mainly while on the military expedition to China.
Copies of selected documents from the India Office Library and Records relating to Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1876-1938), barrister, thinker, politician and poet, included in an Exhibition on Iqbal held in 1982 at the School of Oriental and African Studies.