Two letters written and received by Maj (later Col) George Rowland Edwards (b 1810), Madras Army 1826-61, concerning the suppression of dacoity and the cultivation of flax and linseed in India; also transcript of letter, dated 1826, from his father John Edwards (b 1773), giving spiritual and mora...
Edited transcript of memoir, covering the years 1789-1831, of Alexander Duncan Campbell (1789-1857), Madras Civil Service 1808-42, describing his official duties and scholarly work on Telugu and Tamil; also printed papers including his complaint, dated 1833, concerning his removal from the collec...
Transcript of letter from Maj-Gen Alexander Henry Edward Campbell 1835-1929, Madras Army 1854-86, to Dr Alexander G Mowat, Church Missionary Society, on the interest of officers of Jalna Garrison, Hyderabad, and of British other ranks at Secunderabad, in missionary work in the 1850s.
Copy extract of letter, dated 14 Jan 1799, from George Dempster Guthrie (d 1813), describing the murder at Benares of Robert Graham, Bengal Civil Service 1794-99, George Frederick Cherry (b 1761), Bengal Civil Service 1778, Resident at Benares 1793, and two others, by Wazir Ali the deposed Nawab ...
Letter from Philip Mason (b 1906), Indian Civil Service 1928-47, Joint Secretary to Government of India, War Dept 1944-47, to Lt-Col Lionel Heathcote Landon (b 1907), British Army, Royal Artillery 1929, on reasons why the British could not have delayed their withdrawal from India.
`Domino-effect south of capricorn': typescript history by W A J Street of St Helena in the 18th and 19th centuries and its geographical importance to the East India Company, with some comments on the Cape Colony.
Copy of letters, dated Dec 1941-Apr 1942, of Hugh Graham Wilkie (b 1893), Indian Civil Service, Burma 1919-47, Chief Secretary to Government of Burma 1940-46, and his wife Margaret Wilhelmina Owen Wilkie (b 1900), on the Japanese invasion of Burma and their evacuation to India; also copy of claim...
`The Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper's Hill, (1871-1906): A case study of state involvement in professional civil engineering education' by Brendon P Cuddy (Ph.D thesis, University of London, 1980).
Extracts from 'The Bolton Letters: The letters of an English merchant in Madeira', vol ii, by Graham Blandy (3rd edn 1980), relating to trade with North America, and the East and West Indies.
Miscellaneous letters received by Lady Premilla Thackersey from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Subhas Chandra Bose (some in Gujerati).