`Other Days': copy of extract from memoir by Lt-Col Granville Pennefather Evans (1868-1963), including details of his career in the British and Indian Armies 1890-1920, and of game hunting in India, Burma and East Africa.
Copy of `Indian Reminiscences' of Professor Edward Lionel Gregory Stones (1914-87), concerning his experiences in India as a cadet and officer in the Royal Corps of Signals.
Two photocopies of a letter, dated 30 Jan 1867, from Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800-94), Assistant Resident, and later Resident, in Nepal 1820-44, lived privately at Darjeeling c1845-58, oriental scholar; to Hyde Clarke (1815-95), engineer, linguist and scholar, concerning Hodgson's ethnological re...
Copies of (i) Commission (1866) to Charles Hay (1843-1912), as Lieutenant in Bombay Staff Corps; (ii) mention in despatches and award of DSO (1921) for Maj Arthur Sidney Hay, Indian Army 1900-26.
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Copies of (i) Commission (1866) to Charles Hay (1843-1912), as Lieutenant in Bombay Staff Corps; (ii) mention in despatches and award of DSO (1921) for Maj Arthur Sidney Hay, Indian Army 1900-26.
Copies of letters from James Sutcliffe (d 1878), Principal of the Hindu (later Presidency) College Calcutta 1852-76, and Director of Public Instruction for Bengal 1876-78, to his mother and family in England.
Photograph of letter, dated 9 Jun 1857, written shortly before her death by Emma Larkins, wife of Maj George Larkins (1807-57), Bengal Artillery, to her sister-in-law Henrietta Coffin, describing the plight of those trapped at Cawnpore during the siege, and giving farewell messages to her childre...
Copies of: (i) diaries (1919 and 1928) and memorabilia of Lt-Col Cyril Walter Montague Morris (b 1900), Indian Army 1919-47; (ii) diary, dated 1873-74, of an officer surveying the Naga Hills; (iii) appointment papers of Thomas Walter Morris, Indian Civil Service 1890-1925.
Circular letter, dated 14 Aug 1947, issued to all members of the Indian Medical Service by its Director General, on the dissolution of the service on that date.
`A Grandfather's Monologue': copy of memoir by Maj John Hawkins Auret (b 1914), Indian Army 1935-46, Indian Political Service 1946-47, including reminisceneces of his service in the Tochi Scouts on the North-West Frontier; also details of the career of his father Col Alan Sauer Auret, Indian Army...
Transcript of interview, given 1978, by Sir George Edmond Brackenbury Abell (1904-89), Indian Civil Service, Punjab 1928-47, concerning Punjab politics in the 1930s and 1940s.