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

1. IOR Neg 12032

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR Neg 12032
Title:
Journal (c1850) by an unidentified subaltern of travels in northern India, chiefly the Punjab, illustrated with drawings.
Scope & Content:
Journal (c1850) by an unidentified subaltern of travels in northern India, chiefly the Punjab, illustrated with drawings.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1850
Extent:
1 reel

2. Mss Eur A144

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur A144
Title:
Lady Elisabeth Mary Smith papers.
Scope & Content:
Edited typescript of the diary of Lady Elisabeth Mary Bruce (1877-1944), daughter of Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin (1849-1917), Viceroy of India 1894-99, who married (1898) Sir Henry Babington Smith (1863-1923), Private Secretary to the Viceroy.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1894-1898
Extent:
3 volumes

3. Mss Eur A151

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur A151
Title:
Annandale Gymkhana Club papers.
Scope & Content:
Library catalogue of the Annandale Gymkhana Club, dated 1905, updated in manuscript to 1949.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1949
Extent:
1 volume

4. Mss Eur A168

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur A168
Title:
Freda Evelyn Oliver papers.
Scope & Content:
Letter, dated 26 Sept 1947, from Freda Evelyn Oliver, wife of Peter Richard Oliver (b 1917), Indian Civil Service, Punjab 1939-47, Deputy Commissioner, Bahawalpur State 1944-47, describing her family's journey from Simla to Bahawalpur during the disturbances following partition.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1947
Extent:
8 folios

5. Mss Eur A201

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur A201
Title:
Beryl Marian Douglas Lee Warner papers.
Scope & Content:
`Guided Destiny' (Wisbech, c1980), memoir by Beryl Marian Douglas Lee Warner (b 1898), including her early years in India and comments on the survey work of her father Col Arthur Henry Bliss Hume (1868-1960), Royal Engineers 1888-1925, and her later life in India.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1898-1945
Extent:
255 pages

6. Mss Eur B298

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B298
Title:
Papers of Robert Bensley Thornhill (1818-57) and family
Scope & Content:
Papers and miscellaneous items, dated 1840-95, of and relating to Robert Bensley Thornhill (1818-57), Bengal Civil Service 1836-57 and his wife Mary (nee Siddons) (d1857), particularly to their deaths at Cawnpore in the Indian Mutiny; also letters, dated 1858-1919, to their daughter Henrietta (Mi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1840-1919
Extent:
24 items

7. Mss Eur B336

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B336
Title:
John Hallett Batten papers.
Scope & Content:
Journal of John Hallett Batten (1811-86), Bengal Civil Service 1828-66, describing a tour from Simla to Saharanpur; also xerox copy of the Batten genealogy.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1835
Extent:
1 volume; 13 folios

8. Mss Eur B418

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B418
Title:
William Adam Cuppage papers.
Scope & Content:
A collection of programmes, broadsides and newspaper cuttings relating to amateur dramatics and concerts in Simla, Lucknow and Mussoorie, apparently belonging to Mrs Cuppage, wife of Maj William Adam Cuppage (b 1860), Indian Army 1881-1905, both of whom were leading participants.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1889-1906
Extent:
1 portfolio

9. Mss Eur C782

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C782
Title:
James Archibald Ferrier papers.
Scope & Content:
Memoirs of Maj-Gen James Archibald Ferrier (1854-1934), Royal Engineers 1873-1917, transcribed and annotated by his grandson Cdr James Ilay Ferrier.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1854-1934
Extent:
1 folder

10. Mss Eur D724

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D724
Title:
Papers of Andrew Parke Hume, Indian Civil Service, United Provinces 1927-47, and other members of the Hume family
Scope & Content:
`Hume Collection': correspondence, diaries, papers and photographs of Andrew Parke Hume (1904-65), Indian Civil Service, United Provinces 1927-47, including references to the Delhi Improvement Trust and the Govt of India Secretariat in wartime; of his father Col Arthur Henry Bliss Hume (1868-1960...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1884-1960
Extent:
182 items