Copies of letters and papers of Pauline Cooke, wife of Maj George Humphrey Cooke, Indian Army 1923, Indian Political Service 1931-47, describing her impressions of India and her experiences when accompanying her husband on tour in North-West Frontier Province, Gilgit and elsewhere.
`The Lloyds of Harley Street': brief biographies by C R S Lloyd of members of his family, a number of whom served in India during the nineteenth century; also copy of diary, dated 1855-57, of Edmund Eyre Lloyd (1829-1904), Madras Medical Service 1855-85, describing his voyage to India, life in Ma...
`Brief Memoirs of a 'Box Wallah'': copy of memoir by Lt-Cdr Brian David Hadlow (1911-81), describing his experiences of working in Calcutta for the shipping firm Turner Morrison and Company 1933-39, service with Calcutta Light Horse, and life as an officer of the Royal Indian Navy Volunteer Reser...
Extracts, dated 1938, 1940, 1944, from diaries of Herbert Christopher Beaumont (b 1912), Indian Civil Service, Punjab 1936-44, Indian Political Service 1944-47, describing the daily life of an administrator in the Punjab and in Tripura.
Copies of Correspondence of the East India Company at Canton and correspondence between H.M.S.s Imogene and Andromache, and Lord Napier Dated as: 1831-35