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1. IOR/L/PS/12/1993

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1993
Title:
Coll 5/39 ‘Flights of RAF aeroplanes to Gilgit; flights of foreign aircraft over Gilgit and Chitral’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with aviation in Gilgit, Hunza, Mir, and the surrounding area. It primarily covers three topics. The first topic is the matter of annual Royal Air Force (RAF) flights to Gilgit over the Himalayas in 1932, 1934, 1935, and 1936. It includes a report on the 1934 flight (see f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Dec 1932-9 Jun 1938
Extent:
1 file (204 folios)

2. Mss Eur C178

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C178
Title:
Garry John Alder papers.
Scope & Content:
`British Policy on the Roof of the World 1865-95, with special reference to the Anglo-Russian agreement of 1895', by Garry John Alder (Ph.D. thesis, University of Bristol, 1959), later published as `British India's Northern Frontier, 1865-95' (London 1963).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1865-1895
Extent:
1 volume

3. Mss Eur D531

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D531
Title:
Diaries of Henry Lawrence Haughton, Indian Army
Scope & Content:
Diaries of Lt (later Maj-Gen) Henry Lawrence Haughton (1883-1955), Indian Army 1904-43, including an account of his service in India, notably in Gilgit and Baltistan, and during the famine of 1908; with photographs and pencil sketches.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1912
Extent:
5 volumes

4. Mss Eur D727

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D727
Title:
Papers of Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Indian Civil Service, Foreign Secretary to Government of India 1885-94
Scope & Content:
Durand Collection: papers of Sir Henry Mortimer Durand (1850-1924), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1870-94, Foreign Secretary to Government of India 1885-94, negotiated frontier agreement with Afghanistan (`Durand Line') 1893, Minister Plenipotentiary at Teheran 1894-1900.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1876-1908
Extent:
19 items

5. Mss Eur D735

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D735
Title:
Sir Henry Brackenbury papers.
Scope & Content:
Printed and manuscript papers assembled by General Sir Henry Brackenbury (1837-1914), British Army 1856, Military Member of Governor-General's Council 1891-96, relating to military organization and strategy in India including notes on Chitral, Gilgit, the threat of Russian invasion, the Intellige...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1891-1897
Extent:
390 folios

6. Mss Eur D995

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D995
Title:
Letters home to his mother, sisters and brothers from Maj-Gen James Archibald Douglas (1862-1932), Indian Army 1885-1920; also two memorabilia of the Delhi Durbar, 1911, of his brother Col Walter Binny Douglas (1868-1939), Indian Army 1892-1921; including a book entitled A Sketch of the Services of the Bengal Native Army to the Year 1895 by Lt F. G. Cardew. [Photograph albums of the Douglas family have been transferred to Prints, Drawings & Photographs].
Scope & Content:
Letters home to his mother, sisters and brother from Maj-Gen James Archibald Douglas (1862-1932), Indian Army 1885-1920; also two memorabilia of the Delhi Durbar 1911, of his brother Col Walter Binny Douglas (1868-1939), Indian Army 1892-192; also, book entitled "A Sketch Of the Services Of The B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1897-1942
Extent:
5 items

7. Mss Eur D1168

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D1168
Title:
Papers of Lt-Col David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer (1876-1962), Indian Army 1896, Indian Political Service 1903-27, Political Agent, Gilgit 1920-24, including notes on Shina grammar and vocabulary and correspondence on the lifestyle of the Hunzas.
Scope & Content:
Papers of Lt-Col David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer (1876-1962), Indian Army 1896, Indian Political Service 1903-27, Political Agent, Gilgit 1920-24, including notes on Shina grammar and vocabulary and correspondence on the lifestyle of the Hunzas.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921-1957
Extent:
9 files

8. Mss Eur E410

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur E410
Title:
GODFREY COLLECTION. Papers of Lt-Col Stuart Hill Godfrey, Indian Political Service 1892-1915; his wife Guendolen; and father-in-law Sir Adelbert Talbot, Indian Political Service 1873-1900
Scope & Content:
Godfrey Collection: papers of Lt-Col Stuart Hill Godfrey (1861-1941), Indian Political Service 1892-1915, his wife Guendolen, and his father-in-law Lt-Col Sir Adelbert Cecil Talbot (1845-1920), Indian Political Service 1873-1900, Resident in Kashmir 1896-1900; including correspondence, papers, a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1880-1936
Extent:
147 items

9. Mss Eur F157

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F157
Title:
Papers of Lt-Col Frederick Marshman Bailey, Indian Army 1900, Indian Political Service 1905-38, and of other members of his family
Scope & Content:
Bailey Collection: correspondence, papers, diaries, photographs and maps of Lt-Col Frederick Marshman Bailey (1882-1967), Indian Army 1900, Indian Political Service 1905-38, and of his wife Irma (nee Cozens-Hardy); of his parents Lt-Col Frederick Bailey, Royal Engineers 1859, Indian Forest Dept 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1827-1976
Extent:
597 items; plus unsorted photographs

10. Mss Eur F177

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F177
Title:
Papers of Emily Overend Lorimer, author, editor of 'Basrah Times' 1916-17, wife of Lt-Col David Lorimer, Indian Political Service 1903-27
Scope & Content:
Lorimer Collection: papers of Emily Overend Lorimer (1881-1949), author, tutor in Germanic Philology at Somerville College Oxford 1907-10, editor `Basrah Times' 1916-17, wife of Lt-Col David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer (1876-1962), Indian Army 1896, Indian Political Service 1903-27, comprising let...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1902-1949
Extent:
106 items