Papers of (John) Richard Charters Symonds (b 1918), relating to his work as Deputy Director, Relief and Rehabilitation, Government of Bengal 1944-45, including correspondence with Gandhi; also papers while serving with Friends Service Unit, Punjab and Kashmir 1947-48, relating to refugees and com...
`Mapping and empire: British trigonometrical surveys in India and the European concept of systematic survey 1799-1843' by Matthew H Edney (Ph.D thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990).
Letter, dated 20 Aug 1805, from an unnamed army officer to his brother Andrew Fenoulhet complaining of life in India, discussing means of remitting funds to India in dollars and of sending goods, and listing items he wanted sent to him.
Notes by Professor Sir (Edward) Austin Gossage Robinson (b1897) and his wife Professor Joan Violet Robinson (1903-83) written while he was serving as Tutor to the Maharaja of Gwalior 1926-28, on their daily routine, dinner at the palace, and drinks at the club.
Copy of letter, dated 26 Nov 1815, from Rev Joseph Hallet Batten, Principal of Haileybury College 1815-37, to Robert Hobart, Earl of Buckinghamshire (1760-1816), President of the Board of Control 1812-16, regarding an attack on two servants by a group of students.
Copies and typescripts of two letters of Annie Waller, wife of Capt (later Col) Robert Waller (1808-77), Bengal Artllery 1826-58, to her husband's relatives in Ireland, describing her situation at Jellalabad (1841) and her anxieties about her husband and children, and criticizing Government polic...
Copies (to scale and enlargements) of letters, dated 29 Apr and 6 May 1842, from Maj-Gen (later Sir) William Nott (1782-1845), Bengal Army 1799-1845, commander of the army of Kandahar in Afghan War, 1838-42, to Maj-Gen Pollock, chiefly on the lack of funds, stores and carriage preventing him from...
Episcopal letter issued by Daniel Wilson (1778-1858), Bishop of Calcutta 1832-58, licensing St Stephen's Church, Kidderpore, Calcutta, as a place of worship until it could be properly consecrated.
Letters of Capt Francis Irvine (1786-1855), Bengal Army 1805-22, to his father and other relatives, commenting on his health, homesickness and life in India.
`The Labyrinth: A History of the Western Encounter with India': copy of typescript of unpublished book (1982) by Chaturvedi Badrinath, on the Indian reaction to the introduction of western systems of thought.