`Merely a Memsahib': copy of memoirs by Viola Steel Smith (b 1902), wife of Lt-Col Cecil Curtis Harold Smith (b 1898), Indian Army 1918-47, Indian Political Service 1925-47, describing her life in various parts of India.
`Peacock Dreams': copy of memoir, completed c1982, by William Henry Tydd (b 1908), Indian Police, Burma 1929-47, recounting his life in Burma (published London 1986); also photographs, dated c1900-12, by his father Walter Brownlow Tydd (1864-1914), Burma Provincial Civil Service.
Typescript transcript of letter, dated 1 Oct 1795, from Cadet (later Maj) William Midwinter (1777-1818), Bengal Army 1797-1818, to Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1803), Chief Justice of Bengal 1791-99, describing a voyage to Indonesia, the commodities and conditions of trade there, and the death of Ca...
Copy of account book of John Theodore Hunt (1869-1941), engineer, Bengal and North Western Railway 1897-1912, detailing his monthly personal income and expenditure; also letter, dated 1909, from his wife Ada Mary Hunt, describing her family's escape from floods near Bagana, Bengal.
Copy of memoir, dated 1978, of Dorothy B Thomas (b c1893), nursing sister, Lady Minto's Indian Nursing Association 1928-44, recounting her nursing experiences in various parts of India and Burma; with copies of certificates (1934 and 1944) of good performance and conduct.
`The British Occupation of the Portuguese Settlements in India, Goa, Diu, Damaun, 1799-1813': copy of unpublished typescript, dated 1969, by Maj Tom Walters Venn (1882-1973), Bombay Steam Navigation Co, Ltd, volunteer and Reserve Officer, Indian Army 1915-33.
Copy of two extracts (chs. 4 and 7) relating to India from typescript memoir by Ann Radloff, giving her impressions of India in 1945-46 as an Army Nursing Sister, and on a return visit in 1976.
Typescript transcript of diary-letter, dated Jul-Oct 1809, from Lt-Col (later General) Tredway Clarke (1764-1858), Madras Artillery 1780-1858, Head Commissary of Ordnance, Madras 1798-1811, discussing family news and the mutiny of Madras Officers in 1809.