Photocopy of account of voyage from Copenhagen to Tranquebar (1781), by Brother James Latrobe, missionary of the United Brethren, and of extracts from letters from Patna (1784) to his brother Benjamin Latrobe, and to his niece.
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Photocopy of account of voyage from Copenhagen to Tranquebar (1781), by Brother James Latrobe, missionary of the United Brethren, and of extracts from letters from Patna (1784) to his brother Benjamin Latrobe, and to his niece.
Photocopy of 'Programme of the Review in honour of their Royal Highnesses the Prince & Princess of Wales held at Rawalpindi on 8 December 1905' listing senior officers and army units taking part in the parade (original printed on silk).
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Photocopy of 'Programme of the Review in honour of their Royal Highnesses the Prince & Princess of Wales held at Rawalpindi on 8 December 1905' listing senior officers and army units taking part in the parade (original printed on silk).
Photocopies of correspondence between the Viceroy the Earl of Mayo and the Secretary of State for India the Duke of Argyll taken from the Mayo Papers at Cambridge University Library.
Copies of correspondence between Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (1822-72), as Viceroy of India 1869-72, the 8th Duke of Argyll (1823-1900), Secretary of State for India 1868-74, and other senior officials and eminent persons. Copied from microfilms (ref: Or Mic 14136-37) supplied by Cambridge University Library and made from Mayo papers held there (CUL ref: Add 7490, vols 156-57 and 161-64).
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Copies of correspondence between Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (1822-72), as Viceroy of India 1869-72, the 8th Duke of Argyll (1823-1900), Secretary of State for India 1868-74, and other senior officials and eminent persons. Copied from microfilms (ref: Or Mic 14136-37) supplied by C...
Reasons for selecting narrow (3` 3``) gauge; cost savings thereby achieved will contribute to hoped for £1 million surplus by end of 1870/71 financial year; hopes to reduce income tax by more than half.
Death of Sir H Durand (Lt-Governor of Punjab); proposes to appoint (Sir) R H Davies (Chief Commissioner of Oudh) as Durand's successor; Davies's qualifications.
Acknowledges Argyll's letter of 9 December and discusses Argyll's complaint regarding tone of communications from Govt of India and explains how freely written notes not originally intended to be sent home largely account for the problem; Mayo's concern regarding excessive expenditure and odium h...