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Project / Collection India Office Private Papers Place Africa, Africa

1. Mss Eur A3-5; B4-10; C9-10; D26-32; E49-50

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur A3-5; B4-10; C9-10; D26-32; E49-50
Title:
Erskine Collection: papers collected by William Erskine (1773-1852), legal office holder, Bombay from 1804, Master in Equity, Recorder's Court 1820-23; Secretary and later Vice-President of the Bombay Literary Society 1805-23; oriental scholar; chiefly relating to the history, geography, customs and antiquities of the peoples of India and Central Asia.
Scope & Content:
Erskine Collection: papers collected by William Erskine (1773-1852), legal office holder, Bombay from 1804, Master in Equity, Recorder's Court 1820-23; Secretary and later Vice-President of the Bombay Literary Society 1805-23; oriental scholar; chiefly relating to the history, geography, customs ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1804-1841
Extent:
21 volumes

2. Mss Eur C313

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C313
Title:
Papers of Maj Ronald Sinclair (alias Reginald Teague Jones), Frontier Constabulary 1914-17, British agent in Transcaspia 1917-22
Scope & Content:
Sinclair Collection: papers and photographs of Maj Ronald Sinclair (alias Reginald Teague Jones) (1889-1988), Frontier Constabulary 1914-17, Indian Army Reserve Officer 1917-22, British Consul, New York 1941-53; relating to the policing of the North-West Frontier, the British Mission to Central A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903-1980
Extent:
98 items

3. Mss Eur D1111

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D1111
Title:
Papers of John Coldwell Griffiths, Indian Civil Service, Madras
Scope & Content:
Griffiths Collection: letters and papers of John Coldwell Griffiths (b 1913), chiefly relating to his life in the Indian Civil Service, Madras 1937-48; also memoir, dated 1985, on his career in India and from 1951 to 1982 as an administrator and judge in Malaya, Singapore, Northern and Southern R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1936-1987
Extent:
29 items

4. Mss Eur D1169

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D1169
Title:
Patrick Brian Sweeney papers.
Scope & Content:
`A Game Warden's Permit for a Corpse (The life and times of a Customs Officer)': privately published memoir by Patrick Brian Sweeney (b 1914) of his career in the Customs and Excise Depts in Bombay 1933-46 and Nawanagar 1946-49, in the Indian Army 1940-45, and in the Colonial Customs Service 1949...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1965
Extent:
1 volume; 1 file

5. Mss Eur F126/100

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/100
Title:
Map of Damara and Great Namaqua Land and the Adjacent Countries to and beyond Lake Ngami as explored and surveyed by Messrs Galton & Andersson
Scope & Content:
Imprint: London, Published by Hurst and Blackett. Drawn by E Ravenstein; Engraved on stone by Schenck and McFarlane Lithographers, Edinburgh. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Below title the note 'The coast from 20° South lat, to Walfisch Bay is from the survey of Capt. Will...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1856
Extent:

1 map

6. Mss Eur F524

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F524
Title:
Papers of Isabella Lady Couchman (nee McMahon) (1875-1961)
Scope & Content:
Papers of Isabella Lady Couchman (nee McMahon) (1875-c1961), wife of Sir Francis Dundas Couchman (1864-1948), Under Secretary to the Government of India for Railways 1901-1905, Indian Railway Board 1915-1920, Director of Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway 1927-1941, describing aspects of her li...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1870-1948
Extent:
10 volumes and 14 items

7. Mss Eur Photo Eur 311

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur Photo Eur 311
Title:
Sayed Shakeel Ahmed papers.
Scope & Content:
`A Description of Archives on Africa available in Hyderabad Records of Andra Pradesh State Archives, Hyderabad': list by Sayed Shakeel Ahmed, Assistant Archivist, Andra Pradesh State Archives. Dated as: no date
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 folder