Diaries of Sir Arthur Hirtzel (1870-1937), India Office 1894-1930, Private Secretary to Secretary of State 1903-09, Permanent Under-Secretary 1924-30; with index. [For originals see Mss Eur D 1090.]
Two letters, dated 23 Oct 1839 and 18 Mar 1840, written by Marion S Jameson, wife of Capt (later Maj) John St Clair Jameson (d 1847), Bombay Army 1831-47, to her sister-in-law Mrs Gray, describing the Jamesons' return journey to Bombay from leave in England.
File of papers, dated Apr 1885, apparently kept by Lord Hartington (later 8th Duke of Devonshire) as Secretary of State for War, containing correspondence and draft memoranda on Afghanistan, with particular reference to the Russian attack on Panjdeh.
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File of papers, dated Apr 1885, apparently kept by Lord Hartington (later 8th Duke of Devonshire) as Secretary of State for War, containing correspondence and draft memoranda on Afghanistan, with particular reference to the Russian attack on Panjdeh.
Pages from the Register of the New Free Grammar School at Londonderry (now Foyle College) for the years 1814-15, 1819-20 and 1822-23, showing the names of Alexander, George, Henry and John Lawrence, and of Robert Montgomery; also copy of portrait of Rev James Knox, headmaster of the school and maternal uncle of the Lawrence brothers.
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Pages from the Register of the New Free Grammar School at Londonderry (now Foyle College) for the years 1814-15, 1819-20 and 1822-23, showing the names of Alexander, George, Henry and John Lawrence, and of Robert Montgomery; also copy of portrait of Rev James Knox, headmaster of the school and ma...
`In great-grandmother's days: a family record compiled by Mary Stuart Theophila Clive Bayley': memoir, compiled 1925-32, chiefly relating to the lives of the Metcalfe and Bayley families in India and elsewhere, and including autobiographical notes by Emily Anne Theophila, Lady Bayley (1830-1911),...
Memoir of Margaret Elizabeth Benn-Walsh (nee Fowke) (1758-1836) wife of John Benn (later Sir John Benn-Walsh), 1st Bart (1759- 1825), East India Company servant, Bengal 1777-87, by her son John Benn-Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite.