Copies of two letters, dated 28 Jul and 4 Dec 1857, from Mary Clare Cecilia Gilliland (1826-1926), wife of James Charles Gilliland (1832-69), Uncovenanted Civil Servant Punjab, to her mother, describing her experiences and her views of the Indian Mutiny; also obituary notice (1926).
Copies of letters from Alasdair Steven, tea planter, Travancore, to his father describing his voyage to India and his first year as a planter; with copy of `No Reprieve for a Rogue': unpublished stories by Steven on Indian wildlife especially elephants, with photographs.
`The Carefree Days of Planting': copy of brief memoir by Richard R Tewson (b 1915), including description of life, 1930s-60s, as Assistant Manager, and later Manager, of tea estates in Travancore and Kerala for the Kanan Devan Hills Produce Co Ltd; and as a Battery Commander, Mountain Artillery,...
Copies of four letters to John Harris, bricklayer and builder, of Cambridge and later London; from his brother Samuel Harris writing from Simla; his son Charles Barrett Harris writing from Hoshiapur; and C H Barrett of C H Barrett and Company, general merchants and commssion agents, Simla; concer...