`Golden years and times of stress': memoirs of Sir Henry Joseph Twynam (1887-1966), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1910-46, Governor of Central Provinces and Berar 1940-46; also copy of his published speeches on the war effort in the Central Provinces, dated 1940-42.
Copies of letters from Maj George R Clowes and Maj Robert Poore, 8th Hussars, to their families in England and Ireland, describing events during the Indian mutiny at Gwalior, Jaipur and Udaipur, and the pursuit of Tantia Topi.
Printed `Abstract of the Articles of War in English, Persian and Hindoostanee; the latter in Naguree and Roman characters' (Calcutta 1807); `Alterations made this year in the Mutiny Act and Articles of War' (1811); and manuscript copy of the form of oath to be taken by officers of Courts Martial (1813).
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Printed `Abstract of the Articles of War in English, Persian and Hindoostanee; the latter in Naguree and Roman characters' (Calcutta 1807); `Alterations made this year in the Mutiny Act and Articles of War' (1811); and manuscript copy of the form of oath to be taken by officers of Courts Martial ...
`Major-General Sir David Ochterlony, Bart., G.C.B.': (Edinburgh 1903): reprint of article on Ochterlony from the `Dictionary of National Biography', with additional biographical material mainly from published sources, compiled by by Sir David Ferguson Ochterlony, 3rd Bart.
Copies of letters, dated Kabul 1840-41, from Lt-Col William Henry Dennie (1785-1842), British Army, compiled from the `Bombay Times' by Elizabeth Leslie in 1843.
`Some account of the part taken by the 79th Regiment or Cameron Highlanders in the Indian Mutiny Campaign in 1858', by Capt Douglas Wimberley, sometime adjutant of the 79th: privately reprinted from the `Highland Monthly' (Inverness 1891).
Typescript copies of letters from Brigade-Surgeon Francis Collins (1832-1925), Assistant-Surgeon, 5th Fusiliers, British Army, describing his experiences during the Indian mutiny including the first and second reliefs of Lucknow.
Typescript copies of letters from Franklin Richardson Kendall (1839-1907), employed by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, to his mother in England; also annotated and indexed version.
Letter, dated East India House 30 Dec 1858, from Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820-77), Surveyor to the East India Company, to Sir George Gilbert Scott, architect of the new India Office, discussing the space required in the new building.
List, dated 17 Jan 1844, of officers and other men `present with Head Quarters and Two Squadrons of the Ninth or Queen's Royal Lancers engaged at the Battle of Punniar on the 29th December 1843'; with a few other miscellaneous papers.
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List, dated 17 Jan 1844, of officers and other men `present with Head Quarters and Two Squadrons of the Ninth or Queen's Royal Lancers engaged at the Battle of Punniar on the 29th December 1843'; with a few other miscellaneous papers.