Photocopy of letter, dated 10 May 1775, from Warren Hastings (1732-1818), Governor of Bengal 1772-74 and Governor-General 1774-85 to George Bogle (1746-81), East India Company servant 1769-81, referring to Hastings's political difficulties in Bengal and Bogle's mission to Tibet 1774-75.
Photocopies of letters from Herbert Christopher Beaumont (b 1912), Indian Civil Service, Punjab 1936-44, Indian Political Service 1944-47, Private Secretary to Chairman of the Boundary Commissions (Sir Cyril Radcliffe) 1947, to his mother commenting on his life in India.
Photocopy of licence issued by the Bishop of Calcutta to St Stephen's Church, Kidderpore, Calcutta, permitting it to be used for divine service before it had actually been consecrated.
Memoir by Alcyone Helen Pereira (1910-96), daughter of Edgar Thomas David Gaudoin (1880-1950), Burma Frontier Service 1909-36, wife of Rev Ravenel Pereira (1910-87) (m 1937) of her life in Burma 1910-42, India 1942-49 and Ceylon 1949-96.
Typescript transcripts of letters from Maj-Gen Frederick Parkinson Lester (1795-1858), Bombay Artillery 1811-58, commanding southern division of Bombay Army 1857-58, and his wife Charlotte, chiefly to their eldest daughter Charlotte Elizabeth ('Lizzie'), transcribed by his son the Rev John Moore ...
Photocopy of memoirs of Capt Richard Kenneth Maitland Saker (b 1908), Indian Army 1928, Indian Political Service 1933-47, relating to his service in Rawalpindi 1928-29, Waziristan 1929-30, Iran 1930, Karachi 1930-33, Baroda 1933-34, Meerut 1934-35, Rajputana 1936-37, Tibet 1941-43, Baluchistan 19...
Photocopies and transcripts of extracts from diaries and papers of Maj-Gen William Clive Justice (1835-1908)
Scope & Content:
Photocopies and transcripts of extracts from diaries and papers of Maj-Gen William Clive Justice (1835-1908), British Army 1852-97, chiefly relating to that part of his career spent in India. Also extracts from diaries of his wife Leila Jane ('Lilly') Justice.