Letters mainly from Lt (later Capt) George Barnes (d 1824), Bombay Marine 1790-1824, to his parents; also a letter (1847) to his son, George Thomas Barnes.
Letters from James Mill (1773-1836), philosopher, Assistant Examiner of Indian Correspondence, India House 1819 and Chief Examiner 1830-36, to (Pierre) Etienne (Louis) Dumont, on matters of general interest.
Copy of Letters Patent granted to the East India Company, 31 May 1609, by which they were again incorporated in their former name, and invested with the sole exclusive trade within the limits described in their original charter of 1600.
A skit on life at India House: 'Rules and directions to be observed by Mr Chambers at the end of June 1823...to obviate the inconvenience of my absence', by Charles Lamb (1775-1834), essayist, East India Company clerk 1792-1825.
Two letters from Sibella Crozier to her cousin Ann Atkinson, written on board ship and at Batavia; also undated letter to Ann from her brother Richard, and an unfinished letter to her great-nephew Latimer (?).
Letters to George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale (1787-1876), Governor of Madras 1842-48, from his sons Lt Arthur Hay (1824-78), British Army, then serving in the Sikh War 1845-46 (later 9th Marquess), and William Montagu Hay (1826-1911), Bengal Civil Service 1845-62 (later 10th Marquess); and fr...
Proofs of unpublished pamphlets on `The Byza Bae' (Regent of Gwalior 1827-33 who provoked a political crisis in that State) and `History of the reigning family of Oude' by Maj-Gen Sir William Henry Sleeman (1788-1856), Bengal Army 1809-56, in civil employ 1820-56. [The proofs were apparently Sle...
Letter, dated Chinsura 22 Apr 1784, from Sir John Day to Sir William Jones; account of expedition to the Pelew Islands commanded by Lt (later Capt) John McCluer, Bombay Marine 1784- c93, chiefly consisting of his journal for 22-28 Jan 1791.
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Letter, dated Chinsura 22 Apr 1784, from Sir John Day to Sir William Jones; account of expedition to the Pelew Islands commanded by Lt (later Capt) John McCluer, Bombay Marine 1784- c93, chiefly consisting of his journal for 22-28 Jan 1791.
`A personal narrative of the Indian Mutiny - 1857': typescript copy of memoir, dated 1880, by Madeline Jackson, sister of Sir Mountstuart Goodricke Jackson, Bart, Bengal Civil Service, describing her escape with her brother from Sitarpur into the countryside until taken to Lucknow where she remai...