Paper, dated 7 Jan 1807, proposing an embassy from India to the King of Persia, by Sir Harford Jones [afterwards Jones Brydges], 1st Bart (1764-1847), Bombay Civil Service 1781, Senior Merchant and Resident at Baghdad 1800, Envoy to Persia 1807-11.
`Memoir relative to India', dated 25 Oct 1806, by Sir George C Brathwaite Boughton, dealing chiefly with military organization, submitted to Viscount Howick (later 2nd Earl Grey) as Foreign Secretary and a member of the Board of Control.
Extracts and letters from Warren Hastings (1732-1818), Governor of Bengal 1772-74 and Governor-General 1774-85: (i) to David Anderson, sometime East India Company servant, Bengal (dated 1796-97), (ii) to James Anderson, and to Warren Hastings Anderson, his godson (dated 1810-17); also leters from...
Letters from Sir Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (1800-85), President of the Board of Control 1853-55, Secretary of State for India 1859-66, to 3rd Earl Grey.
Four letters from Frances (Fanny) Eden (1801-49), sister of George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, Governor-General of India 1836-42, and one from her sister Emily Eden (1797-1869), written to Elizabeth Copley.
Telegrams, dated 8 Dec 1941-3 May 1942, sent by Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith (1899- 1977), Governor of Burma 1941-46, chiefly relating to the Japanese invasion of Burma.