Copies of letters from Sgt James Crosson (1833-61), Bombay Artillery 1853-61, to his family, including references to military operations in the Bombay Presidency (Oct 1857) and Rajputana (May 1858).
Copy of letter from Sgt Christopher McGuiness (c1819-58), Bengal Army 1840-58, Department of Public Works, giving his views on the Bengal Sepoy and the causes of the Mutiny; also copy of letter, dated 29 Sep 1854, from his daughter to her cousin.
Copy of description, dated 4 Nov 1880, of the battle of Maiwand during the Second Afghan War 1878-80, by Capt (later Maj) Mosley Mayne (1845-1910), Bombay Army 1865-88.
Commission and Instructions, dated 12 Dec 1652, from the President and Council at Surat, to Nicholas Buckeridge for his proposed voyage to East Africa on the ship the `Assada Merchant'.
Copy of diary of Lt (later Maj-Gen) Frederick Vavasour Broome Witts (1889-1969), Royal Engineers 1907-43, Indian Army 1913-43, written while he was on sick leave in Kashmir.
Typescript copy of memoir, dated 9 Jun 1858, by Mary Louisa Goldney (b 1815), wife of Lt-Col Philip Goldney (1802-57), Bengal Army 1821, Commissioner at Faizabad, describing her experiences during the Sepoy Rebellion after escaping from Sultanpur, and compiled from her letters to her married dau...
Letter, dated 6 March 1934, from Mrs Vivienne Wober (nee Solomon) to her cousin Moselle (later Mrs Samuel Solomon) describing a trip in Bihar with her two brothers, Ariel Solomon, and Samuel Solomon (b 1904), Indian Civil Service, Bihar and Orissa 1927-47.
`The Indian Connection': copies of biographical and genealogical notes compiled by Granville William Ackworth (b 1916), of the Acworth, Knowles, Close, Jenkins and Palmer families from the mid-seventeenth century; also article on `Acworth Leprosy Hospital, Bombay' (Leprosy Review, 1984). Dated...
Copy of `Memorandum on the Subject of Social and Official Intercourse between European Officers and Indian Gentlemen' (Government Press, Bihar and Orissa 1913).
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Copy of `Memorandum on the Subject of Social and Official Intercourse between European Officers and Indian Gentlemen' (Government Press, Bihar and Orissa 1913).