Copy of letter, dated 21 Feb 1813, from William Speeding, free mariner, to his father, William Speeding, Poplar, requesting a sextant and copies of Arrowsmith's charts to be sent to him in Madras.
`The autobiography of an unimportant person: India 1933 to 1947': memoirs of Francis William Bone (b 1908), Civilian Surveyor of Works, Military Engineer Service 1934-47, including account of voyage to India, arrival at Bombay, and car journey from Simla to Quetta; with photographs.
Presentation Address from the President and Councillors of the City Municipality of Dhulia to Sir George Sydenham Clarke (later Baron Sydenham) (1848-1933), Governor of Bombay 1907-13, on the occasion of his laying the foundation stone of the Municipal Hall.
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Presentation Address from the President and Councillors of the City Municipality of Dhulia to Sir George Sydenham Clarke (later Baron Sydenham) (1848-1933), Governor of Bombay 1907-13, on the occasion of his laying the foundation stone of the Municipal Hall.
Typescript copies of letters home, dated 1856-64, of Maj-Gen Hugh Chichester (1836-96), Bengal (later Royal) Artillery 1856-86, including accounts of the outbreak of the mutiny and the siege of Delhi; also Chichester family correspondence and papers, dated 1865-96.
`Just My Luck or Reminiscences': memoir, dated 1979, by Philip Edmund Stanley Finney (b 1904) of his career in the Indian Police, Bengal. Subsequently published as 'Just My Luck: Memoirs of a Police Officer of the Raj' (Dhaka, 2000).
`Raffles Sources for Traditional Javanese Historography and the Mackenzie Collections': photocopy of article by Donald E Weatherbee (`Indonesia', no 26, Oct 1978, Ithaca, N.Y.).
Extracts from Field Service Notebooks, dated 1908 and 1914-15, kept by Lt-Col William Leith-Ross (b 1884), Indian Army 1904-33, describing his service with the Frontier Force 1908, and with the Lahore Division in France.
Family correspondence, dated 1869-96, of Robert Story (1854-1924), British Army 1873-80, Indian Army 1880-83, and his brothers Edward (d 1885), British Army, South Africa 1884-85, and Arthur (d 1894), doctor, north-east Bengal 1891-94; also extracts from Robert's diary (1880-96).