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Project / Collection India Office Private Papers Place Quetta, Baluchistan Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Mss Eur A104

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Mss Eur A104
Title:
Passport, diaries and photographs of Lt-Col Henry Courtenay Mansel Walton (b. 1909), RAMC 1931-54, in India 1934-39, describing his life as a medical officer stationed mainly at Rawalpindi, Muree and Quetta
Scope & Content:
Passport, diaries and photographs of Lt-Col Henry Courtenay Mansel Walton (b 1909), RAMC 1931-54, in India 1934-39, describing his life as a medical officer stationed mainly at Rawalpindi, Murree and Quetta.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1937
Extent:
8 volumes

2. Mss Eur B235

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Mss Eur B235
Title:
Memoirs of Colonel Harry Ross, Indian Army 1892-1924
Scope & Content:
Memoirs, compiled 1928-38, by Col Harry Ross (1869-1938), Indian Army 1892-1924, including descriptions of military life on the North West Frontier, his war time experiences in Mesopotamia and life as Colonel Commandant of the Rangoon Brigade 1920-24; with photographs.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1869-1929
Extent:
6 items

3. Mss Eur C369

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Mss Eur C369
Title:
William Mackie papers.
Scope & Content:
`The Control of Malaria in an Indian Cantonment' by Col William Mackie (b 1908), Indian Medical Service 1932-48, concerning his work in Quetta.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1946
Extent:
1 volume

4. Mss Eur D1162

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Mss Eur D1162
Title:
Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere papers.
Scope & Content:
Letters from Sir (Henry) Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Bart (1815-84), Bombay Civil Service 1834-67, written while Chief Commissioner in Sind 1850-59, to Brig-Gen John Jacob, Political Superintendent of Upper Sind 1847-58; with copy of Secret Despatch 64 of 1858 from Frere to Governor of Bombay on Kal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 folder

5. Mss Eur D1232

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Mss Eur D1232
Title:
Donald Langham Scott papers.
Scope & Content:
Letters from Donald Langham Scott (1887-1942), Posts and Telegraphs Dept, Government of India 1909-38, to his brother describing his life and work as Postmaster at Quetta, Rawalpindi, Simla, Lahore and Calcutta; also memoir by his daughter Dorothy (b 1917), describing her childhood and education ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925-1937
Extent:
18 items

6. Mss Eur E418

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Mss Eur E418
Title:
Papers of Col Basil Amies, Indian Army 1915-47
Scope & Content:
Amies Collection: letters home, papers, autobiographical memoir (written 1979), and photographs of Col Basil Jerome Amies (b 1897), Indian Army 1915-47, concerning his military training and career, including details of his service in the Punjab, North-West Frontier and Burma.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914-1947
Extent:
21 items

7. Mss Eur F111/362

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Mss Eur F111/362
Title:
Report on the Baluch-Persian Caravan Route and Nushki, Chagai and Western Sinjerani Districts
Scope & Content:
Report by Lieutenant Frank Cooke Webb Ware, Political Assistant, Chagai. Printed in Karachi at The Commissioner's Press, 1897. The report concerns the proposal to secure the trade route between Nushki, in what was at the time British territory, and Nasirabad [Zabol] in the Seistan [Sistan] regio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1897
Extent:

1 volume (34 folios)

8. Mss Eur F111/363

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Mss Eur F111/363
Title:
'Report of Khan Bahadur Maula Bakhsh, Attaché to the Agent to the Governor General of India and Her Britannic Majesty's Consul-General for Khurasan and Sistan, on His Journey from Meshed to Quetta via Turbat-i-Haidari, Kain, Sistan, Kuh-i-Malik Siah and Nushki (7th April to 28th July 1898)'
Scope & Content:
Report by Khan Bahadur Maula Bakhsh on his journey from Meshed to Quetta in 1898. The report starts with a description of the circumstances that gave rise to the journey and the preparations before departure (folios 12-17). The main body of the report consists of his account of the journey, writ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1898
Extent:

1 volume (74 folios)

9. Mss Eur F111/364

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Mss Eur F111/364
Title:
Report on the Nushki, Chagai and Western Sinjerani Districts for the year 1897-98 and on the Development of The Quetta-Seistan [Sistan] Trade Route
Scope & Content:
Report by Lieutenant Frank Cooke Webb Ware, Political Assistant, Chagai. Printed in Karachi at The Commissioner's Press, 1898. The annual report concerns the conditions and administration of the region and the development of the Quetta-Seistan trade route and follows on from Ware's similar repor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1898
Extent:

1 volume (72 folios)

10. Mss Eur F111/374

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Mss Eur F111/374
Title:
Report on the Development of the Baluch-Persian Caravan Route and on the Nushki, Chagai and Western Sinjerani Districts, for the year 1899-1900
Scope & Content:
Report by Captain Frank Cooke Webb Ware, Political Assistant, Chagai. Printed in Calcutta at the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1900. The annual report concerns the conditions and administration of the region and the development of the Quetta-Seistan [Sistan] trade r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1900
Extent:

1 volume (28 folios)