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Place Simla, India Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. EAP922/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP922/1
Title:
British Indian Association Archive
Scope & Content:
The British Indian Association, founded in 1851, was one of the earliest political associations of Indian colonial subjects. It was the first political body of the nation and can really challenge Indian National Congress for the title of the Grand Old Party. It was largely composed of landholder...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali and English
Date Range:
1851-1948
Extent:
66,876 TIFF images

2. EAP922/1/11

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP922/1/11
Title:
Documents (1859-1938)
Scope & Content:
This consists of a variety of paper materials, notable among which are pieces of correspondence, notes, notices and other miscellaneous documents. In particular, the correspendences are generally between and among representatives of the colonial government and of the landed gentry in Bengal on a...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali and English
Date Range:
1859-1938
Extent:
2440 TIFF images

3. EAP922/1/11/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP922/1/11/1
Title:
To The Excellency the Vicroy and Governor-General of India by All India Landholders on the 29th July, 1930, at Simla
Scope & Content:
The file is a correspondence regarding administrative matters. Extent and format of original material: One volume 6 folio. Physical characteristics: Pagination:1 to 7. The pages are moth-eaten, yellowed, acidic and very brittle. Edges torn. Marks of foxing, fungal infestation, reverse impressi...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930
Extent:
12 TIFF images

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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