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Project / Collection India Office Private Papers Place Zellaq, Bahrain

1. Mss Eur A12-19; B44-49; C38; D232-35; G34-35

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur A12-19; B44-49; C38; D232-35; G34-35
Title:
Rich Collection: papers of Claudius James Rich (1787-1820), traveller and East India Company's Resident at Baghdad 1808-21, chiefly relating to his residence and travels in Mesopotamia and Kurdistan and including journals, field sketches, maps, astronomical, meteorological and survey notes, on which was based much of his `Narrative of a residence in Koordistan... edited by his widow' (London 1836).
Scope & Content:
Rich Collection: papers of Claudius James Rich (1787-1820), traveller and East India Company's Resident at Baghdad 1808-21, chiefly relating to his residence and travels in Mesopotamia and Kurdistan and including journals, field sketches, maps, astronomical, meteorological and survey notes, on w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1811-1822
Extent:
21 volumes

2. Mss Eur C874

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C874
Title:
Ilay Ferrier papers.
Scope & Content:
Typescript transcript of two papers by Lt-Col Ilay Ferrier (1889-1935), Indian Army 1909-35, describing the Delhi Durbar 1911, and a journey across the desert from Baghdad to Jerusalem 1926.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911-1926
Extent:
1folder

3. Mss Eur D358

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D358
Title:
`The Incidents of a Life': manuscript autobiography, dated 1870, by Thomas Lumisden Strange (1808-84), Madras Civil Service 1827-63, describing family background, school days, life in Madras and Malabar, travels in Mesopotamia and Persia, life at Tellicherry, rebellion in Canara, life in Malabar and Bellary.
Scope & Content:
`The Incidents of a Life': manuscript autobiography, dated 1870, by Thomas Lumisden Strange (1808-84), Madras Civil Service 1827-63, describing family background, school days, life in Madras and Malabar, travels in Mesopotamia and Persia, life at Tellicherry, rebellion in Canara, life in Malabar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1827-1863
Extent:
1 volume

4. Mss Eur D681

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D681
Title:
Papers of Sir Evelyn Howell, Indian Civil Service 1900-34
Scope & Content:
Howell Collection: papers of Sir Evelyn Berkeley Howell (1877-1971), Indian Civil Service, Punjab and NWFP 1900-34, chiefly comprising family correspondence (1896-1904), literary papers, and some official papers including Howell's reports as Censor of Indian mails in France 1914-15, with extracts...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1896-1968
Extent:
38 items

5. Mss Eur D829

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D829
Title:
Papers of Sir Eric Alexander Franklin (1910-1996), Indian Civil Service, Burma 1935-1947; Pakistan Administration Service 1949-1957; Chairman of the Terms of Service Commission, Government of Sudan 1958-1959; and United Nations adviser on Public Administration to the Governments of Jordan 1960-1963 and Nepal 1964-1966
Scope & Content:
Includes memoirs of his career, and printed reports on the administrations of Pakistan, Sudan, Jordan and Nepal
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1935-1989
Extent:
13 boxes

6. Mss Eur D1037

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D1037
Title:
Papers of Brig Charles Edward Gray, Indian Army, 3rd Gurhha Rifles, and Mrs Gray
Scope & Content:
Letters from Brig Charles Edward Gray (1896-1966), Indian Army 1916-48, describing life as an officer with the 3rd Gurkha Rifles; also accounts by Mrs Ruby K Gray of her experiences as an Army wife 1922-47, and of her husband's escape from a prisoner of war camp in 1943.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923-1944
Extent:
11 items

7. Mss Eur D1060

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D1060
Title:
Papers of Alan William Flack, Indian Civil Service, Bihar 1937-47
Scope & Content:
Flack Collection: correspondence, papers and photographs of Alan William Flack (1913-82), Indian Civil Service, Bihar 1937-47, including papers relating to his terms of employment and career in India, notes for his exams as an ICS probationer, an account of his journey to India by car in 1937, an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1936-1978
Extent:
36 items

8. Mss Eur D1216

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D1216
Title:
Alasdair Ramsay Tainsh papers.
Scope & Content:
`The Mould Connection - The Role of Fungi in Peace and War 1917-47': typescript memoir, dated 1985, by Alasdair Ramsay Tainsh (b 1913), Indian Army 1936-47, describing his observations on the storage of grain and its effects on nutrition whilst a supply officer in the Royal Indian Army Service Co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917-1947
Extent:
1 volume

9. Mss Eur F177

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F177
Title:
Papers of Emily Overend Lorimer, author, editor of 'Basrah Times' 1916-17, wife of Lt-Col David Lorimer, Indian Political Service 1903-27
Scope & Content:
Lorimer Collection: papers of Emily Overend Lorimer (1881-1949), author, tutor in Germanic Philology at Somerville College Oxford 1907-10, editor `Basrah Times' 1916-17, wife of Lt-Col David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer (1876-1962), Indian Army 1896, Indian Political Service 1903-27, comprising let...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1902-1949
Extent:
106 items

10. Mss Eur F213

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F213
Title:
Papers of John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton, as President of the Board of Control 1835-41 and 1846-52
Scope & Content:
Broughton Collection: papers and correspondence of John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton (1786-1869), as President of the Board of Control 1835-41 and 1846-52.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1827-1852
Extent:
123 items