Copies of personal letters, dated 1847-56 and 1877, received from various persons by Lt-Col John Pitt Kennedy (1796-1879), British Army 1815; Military Secretary to Sir Charles Napier, C-in-C, India, 1849-50; built Kennedy road towards Tibet; consulting engineer to Government of India for railways...
Copy of diary, dated Jan-Sept 1863, of Capt James Jenkins Blair (1840-70), Bengal Army 1856-70, recording his daily life, and including accounts of hunting trips in Central India.
Copies of letters from Lt William Edward Prescott Cotton (1812-86), 41st Madras Native Infantry 1831-47, to his wife Harriette Elizabeth Cotton, written mainly while on the military expedition to China.
Copies of selected documents from the India Office Library and Records relating to Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1876-1938), barrister, thinker, politician and poet, included in an Exhibition on Iqbal held in 1982 at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
`Merely a Memsahib': copy of memoirs by Viola Steel Smith (b 1902), wife of Lt-Col Cecil Curtis Harold Smith (b 1898), Indian Army 1918-47, Indian Political Service 1925-47, describing her life in various parts of India.
`Peacock Dreams': copy of memoir, completed c1982, by William Henry Tydd (b 1908), Indian Police, Burma 1929-47, recounting his life in Burma (published London 1986); also photographs, dated c1900-12, by his father Walter Brownlow Tydd (1864-1914), Burma Provincial Civil Service.
Typescript transcript of letter, dated 1 Oct 1795, from Cadet (later Maj) William Midwinter (1777-1818), Bengal Army 1797-1818, to Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1803), Chief Justice of Bengal 1791-99, describing a voyage to Indonesia, the commodities and conditions of trade there, and the death of Ca...