`The Wernicke-Stolke story': photocopy of a history of a family of Darjeeling planters; papers on related families; note on `Darjeeling planting - then and now' by Lt-Col L Hannagan.
Copy of letter, dated 18 July 1857, from William Jonah Shepherd, commissariat dept, Cawnpore, briefly describing the siege of Cawnpore. This was the first letter from a survivor of the massacre to reach the outside world.
`Babu Kuer Singh': article by Abhimanyu Singh on Kuer Singh (d 1858), zamindar and leader of the rebellion against the British in Bihar, and his brother Amar Singh (d 1859).
`Partition of India 1947: the memoirs and experiences of a sapper subaltern with 2nd Indian Airborne Division' by Brig D A Barker-Wyatt: photocopy of published article.
Photocopy of letter, dated 10 May 1775, from Warren Hastings (1732-1818), Governor of Bengal 1772-74 and Governor-General 1774-85 to George Bogle (1746-81), East India Company servant 1769-81, referring to Hastings's political difficulties in Bengal and Bogle's mission to Tibet 1774-75.
Photocopies of letters from Herbert Christopher Beaumont (b 1912), Indian Civil Service, Punjab 1936-44, Indian Political Service 1944-47, Private Secretary to Chairman of the Boundary Commissions (Sir Cyril Radcliffe) 1947, to his mother commenting on his life in India.
Photocopy of licence issued by the Bishop of Calcutta to St Stephen's Church, Kidderpore, Calcutta, permitting it to be used for divine service before it had actually been consecrated.