Letters, dated 1759-c1773, from Commodore George Johnstone (1730-1787), Royal Navy, East India Company Director 1783-85; and letters, dated 1766-73, from John Johnstone (1734-1795), East India Company servant, Bengal 1750-1765; to their brother William Johnstone, later Sir William Pulteney, Bart ...
A report on the Northern Circars, ceded to the East India Company 1766 and 1768 by the Nizam of Hyderabad, probably written c1772-73, by a Madras civil servant, and mainly dealing with their revenue.
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A report on the Northern Circars, ceded to the East India Company 1766 and 1768 by the Nizam of Hyderabad, probably written c1772-73, by a Madras civil servant, and mainly dealing with their revenue.
Copies of papers by Leonard George Pinnell (1896-1979), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1920-47, Private Secretary to Governor of Bengal 1935-37, Development Commissioner 1946-47: (a) notes for talk to Rotary Club on aspects of rural development in Bengal (1946); (b) reflections on`Development Plann...
Letter from Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900), oriental scholar, Corpus Professor of Comparative Philology, Oxford University 1868-1900, in reply to an enquiry from Sir Charles Wood (1800-85), Secretary of State for India, giving his views on Sir Anthony Panizzi's proposal that the India Office Li...
Five letters from Thomas Mawe (1816-1857), Bengal Medical Service 1844-1857, to his sister in England, chiefly on the outbreak and progress of the Indian Mutiny at Nowgong, Bundelkhand.
Letters on natural history topics from Sir Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), East India Company servant 1795-1824, Lieutenant-Governor of Java 1811-16, Governor of Benkulen 1818-24, founder of Singapore 1819, to Dr Thomas Horsfield (1773-1859), who served Dutch and British in Java, Sumatra and Banka ...
Memorabilia, genealogical notes, and correspondence relating to the Melvill and Mather families compiled by Sir James Cosmo Melvill (1792-1861), East India Company Home Service 1808-58, Chief Secretary to the Company 1836-58; and his grandson James Cosmo Melvill (1845-1929), including letters fro...
WIMBERLEY DIARIES: Diaries of Mary Wimberley, wife of Rev Charles Wimberley, Chaplain, Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment
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Diaries of Mary Wimberley (1796-1887), wife of Rev Charles Wimberley (1800-76), Chaplain, Bengal Ecclesiatical Establishment 1825-41; with transcript made by Maj-Gen Douglas Neil Wimberley. Mary Irvine (1796-1887) of Aberdeen married the Rev. Charles Wimberley (1800-76) in June 1825, and they ...