Papers concerning Bailey's Second World War Service as a member of the Home Guard in Norfolk and as King's Messenger to the Central American republics. Includes correspondence with various government departments about his possible military employment and about matters of strategic interest.
Letters of acknowledgement for gifts and loans from the British Museum, the Royal Scottish Museum, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and Edinburgh, and the London Zoo.
Lt-Col Frederick Marshman Bailey, Indian Army 1900, Indian Political Service 1905-38: correspondence with officials of the Survey of India, and with museums and other institutions
Correspondence with the Royal Geographical Society, and related papers. Includes part of a correspondence concerning the Tibetan name of Mount Everest. [See also 300.]