Letters from Malcolm, as Private Secretary to Lord Wellesley, with related letters from Wellesley and James Achilles Kirkpatrick, concerning the latter's affair with an Indian woman (Khair un Nissa)
Letters from P Ragaviah; also a 'Refutation of Mr Newnham's charge against the Hindoos' by P Ragaviah (Newnham's article appeared in the Monthly Review, Feb 1804)
Letters from Lt-Col Mark Wilks, author of Historical Sketches of the south of India, (3 vols; 1810-17) relating to his historical researches, in particular to Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan
Copies of papers relating to petitions for the redress of grievances of East India Company Army Officers (Kirkpatrick was a member of a Committee formed to represent them)
A pamphlet attacking Lord Cornwallis's Mysore campaign of 1791 entitled A Letter from a Gentleman in Lancashire to his friend in the East Indies on the subject of the Present War with Tippoo Sultan by 'Carnaticus' (incomplete), annotated by Kirkpatrick; also manuscript copy of pamphlet and reply...
Papers relating to Kirkpatrick's career including his appointment as Resident at Hyderabad (1793), his meeting with Lord Wellesley at the Cape of Good Hope and appointment as Military Secretary (1798), and his appointment as Resident at Poona (1801)
Notebook, probably belonging to William Kirkpatrick, containing an account of treaties between the East India Company and the powers of Hindustan with references to the Treaty of Seringapatam 1792, and to a proposed Treaty of Guarantee, 1793, between the Company, Hyderabad and the Marathas, to en...