Letter from Joseph Lamb (b c1818), Bengal Army 1839-60, Quarter Master Sergeant, 70th Bengal Native Infantry, to his father, concerning family matters.
Copy of letters received by Jacob Bosanquet, East India Company Director 1782-1827, Chairman 1798-99, 1803-04, 1811-13; from Lord Clive, Governor of Madras 1799-1803, and Lord Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal 1798-1805, on affairs in India; and letter, dated Java 5 Oct 1811, from Lord Minto ...
Copies of letter, dated 16 Apr 1857, from Ensign Charles Gregory Way (d 1857), Bengal Army 1857; and of two letters, dated 1878, from Maj George Augustus Way, Bengal Army 1855, and his wife Katherine, written to their sister Mrs Edith Boycott; commenting on army life and family matters.
`La presence francaise dans le royaume sikh du Penjab 1822-1849' (3 vols) by Jean-Marie Lafont (Doctoral thesis, University of Paris, 1987). Published under same title (Paris 1992).
Account by Lt-Col John Arthur Valentine Bolam (b 1908), Indian Army 1928-47, 4th/16th Punjab Regiment, of the occupation of Benghazi by British forces, Dec 1941, and his regiment's break-out from Benghazi with 7th Indian Infantry Brigade H.Q. Group, 28-30 Jan 1942.
Miscellaneous papers of Lt-Col Ralph Ponsonby Watts (b 1892), British Army 1914, Indian Political Service 1925-44, comprising a note entitled `Treachery of Russia and British towards Persia' by Georg Brandes (1915); Muscat Court Records (1935-39); and a list of Baluchi chiefs and the forces they ...
`Narrative of Events Connected with the Defence of Attock in 1848-49': account dated 1866, by Lt-Col (later Maj-Gen) Charles Herbert (1820-97), Bengal Army 1841-78, of his defence of Attock as a young Lieutenant during the 2nd Sikh War.
`The Sleeman Family in India 1809-59': copy of chapter, dated 1988, from `A History of the Sleeman Family' by Judge (Stuart) Colin Sleeman, mainly describing the life and career of Maj-Gen Sir William Henry Sleeman (1788-1856), Bengal Army 1809-56, in civil employ 1820-56.