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032-001116164 Project / Collection India Office Private Papers

1. Mss Eur F625

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Mss Eur F625
Title:
Papers of Leslie Best (1896-1932) and Sir Norman Bolton (1875-1965)
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and photographs of Sir Horatio Norman Bolton (1875-1965), Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province 1923-25, 1926-30, and Leslie William Hazlitt Duncan Best (1896-1932), Assistant Private Secretary to the Viceroy of India Lord Irwin 1922-26, Private Secretary to Lord R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1927-1932
Extent:
1 box (8 folders, 2 photo albums)

2. Mss Eur F625/7

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Mss Eur F625/7
Title:
Correspondence
Scope & Content:
Telegrams and letters to and from H N Bolton concerning events in Peshawar in 1930. Other correspondents include the Viceroy Lord Irwin, Evelyn Howell, George Cunningham, C O Harvey.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930
Extent:
10 ff.

3. Mss Eur F625/9

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Mss Eur F625/9
Title:
Biographies and photographs
Scope & Content:
Typescript biographies of Sir Horatio Norman Bolton, and his son-in-law Leslie William Haslett Duncan Best, by Davina Huxley, grand-daughter of Sir Norman Bolton, daughter of LWHD Best. Includes also an obituary on Leslie W H D Best from Cantuarian Magazine, and 7 pages of scanned photographs of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010
Extent:

4 ff. text, 7 ff. scanned images

4. Mss Eur F625/3

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Mss Eur F625/3
Title:
Policy in Waziristan
Scope & Content:
Secret report perhaps by H N Bolton on policy in Waziristan with an introductory note by the Viceroy Lord Irwin, with a map.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1927
Extent:

8 pp., and a printed map

5. Mss Eur F625/8

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Mss Eur F625/8
Title:
Letters to H N Bolton
Scope & Content:
Letters written to H N Bolton after his illness and sudden departure from India as a result of the disturbances in Peshawar City in April 1930. The writers include Evelyn Howell, Olaf Caroe, Basil Gould, Sikander Khan, Reginald Griffith, Wedgwood Benn, Francis Wylie, G ("Jogie") Crichton, Aubrey ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930
Extent:
19 letters with envelopes

6. Mss Eur F625/2

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Mss Eur F625/2
Title:
Leslie Best's photograph albums
Scope & Content:
L.W.H.D. Best's two photograph albums showing scenes of the siege of the British Legation at Kabul, the evacuation and flight to Peshawar. Includes a sheet of handwritten description of the pictures.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928-1929
Extent:
2 photograph albums (album 1 contains 13 large photos; album 2 contains 70 smaller photos)

7. Mss Eur F625/1

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Mss Eur F625/1
Title:
Report on the civil war in Afghanistan in 1929
Scope & Content:
Typescript draft report, with corrections, on the civil war in Afghanistan in 1929, by Leslie W.H.D. Best, Secretary to the British Legation in Kabul.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929
Extent:
25 ff.

8. Mss Eur F625/5

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Mss Eur F625/5
Title:
Report on the Administration of the Border of the North West Frontier Province 1929-30
Scope & Content:
Printed report with attached letter from Evelyn Howell, Foreign Secretary to the Governmnet of India (1930-32), to H N Bolton, Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929-1930
Extent:
32 pp. attached with a covering letter

9. Mss Eur F625/6

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Mss Eur F625/6
Title:
Letters to H N Bolton
Scope & Content:
Letters addressed to H N Bolton from Lord Irwin (Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, (1881–1959), known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934), Viceroy of India, Lord Strathcona, George Cunningham. Includes an illuminated address from the Muslim Raises of the N.W.F.P.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1926-1927
Extent:
15 letters and 1 illuminated address

10. Mss Eur F625/4

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Mss Eur F625/4
Title:
Letters from Sir Francis Humphrys to H N Bolton
Scope & Content:
Letters from Sir Francis Humphrys, British Minister at Kabul, and Basil Gould, Political Officer at Kabul, addressed to H M Bolton, Chief Commissioner of the North West Frontier Province, during and after the siege of the Legation at Kabul.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928-1929
Extent:
14 letters with envelopes