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1. IOR Neg 4371-74

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR Neg 4371-74
Title:
Ames Library manuscripts relating to India
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts relating to India in the Ames Library of South Asia, Minnesota, mainly dated 1757-1818, also 1831-57 and 1886- 88, including papers of Robert Clive, Warren Hastings, Sir Eyre Coote, Henry Dundas, Sir John Shore, Sir William Cornwallis, Lord Wellesley, Sir Herbert Edwardes, and Lord C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1757-1818
Extent:
4 reels

2. Mss Eur A6

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur A6
Title:
Letter book of Alexander Falconar (1767-1847), Madras Civil Service 1789-1811, Public and Revenue Dept 1790-99, containing copies of letters relating to his appointments.
Scope & Content:
Letter book of Alexander Falconar (1767-1847), Madras Civil Service 1789-1811, Public and Revenue Dept 1790-99, containing copies of letters relating to his appointments.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1787-1796
Extent:
1 volume

3. Mss Eur A23-24; B53-64; B66; C50-67; D285-98; D301-303; E122; F44

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur A23-24; B53-64; B66; C50-67; D285-98; D301-303; E122; F44
Title:
C P Brown Collection: manuscripts and printed books, written or collected by Charles Philip Brown (1798-1884), Madras Civil Service 1816-54, oriental scholar, chiefly comprising works on Telugu grammar, lexicography, language and literature; Sanskrit prosody; memoirs of Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan; and chronology of the Carnatic.
Scope & Content:
C P Brown Collection: manuscripts and printed books, written or collected by Charles Philip Brown (1798-1884), Madras Civil Service 1816-54, oriental scholar, chiefly comprising works on Telugu grammar, lexicography, language and literature; Sanskrit prosody; memoirs of Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1825-1880
Extent:
53 volumes

4. Mss Eur C74-75; D317-36; F46-50

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C74-75; D317-36; F46-50
Title:
Walter Elliot Collection: papers collected by Sir Walter Elliot (1803-87), Madras Civil Service 1820-59, Member of Madras Council 1854-59, comprising materials relating chiefly to the castes, customs, local and dynastic histories, geography, inscriptions, revenue system, and poetry of the peoples of Madras and south India. [Note uncatalogued items from the Collection at Mss Eur D331-D335 and E126-130, and probable strays at G87].
Scope & Content:
Walter Elliot Collection: papers collected by Sir Walter Elliot (1803-87), Madras Civil Service 1820-59, Member of Madras Council 1854-59, comprising materials relating chiefly to the castes, customs, local and dynastic histories, geography, inscriptions, revenue system, and poetry of the peoples...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1825-1867
Extent:
32 volumes

5. Mss Eur C247

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C247
Title:
Robert Percy Smith papers.
Scope & Content:
Smith Collection: correspondence and papers of Robert Percy (`Bobus') Smith (1770-1845), MP, Advocate General, Bengal 1803-12; Cecil Smith (1772-1813), Madras Civil Service 1789-1813; Courtney Smith (1773-1843), Bengal Civil Service 1792-1830; their father Robert Smith (d 1827); John Roberts (d 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1774-1899
Extent:
4 boxes

6. 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

7. Mss Eur D1098

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D1098
Title:
Robert Watson Frazer papers.
Scope & Content:
Letters to Robert Watson Frazer (1854-1921), Indian Civil Service, Madras 1877-86, from colleagues, chiefly about local administration and affairs in various parts of Madras; also certificates covenants and indentures, dated 1875-85.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1879-1885
Extent:
1 folder

8. Mss Eur D1214

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D1214
Title:
Alexander Falconar papers
Scope & Content:
Diaries of Alexander Falconar (1767-1847), Madras Civil Service 1789-1811, Public and Revenue Dept 1790-1799, Board of Revenue 1800-06, Acting Chief Secretary, Government of Madras 1809-11; entered in copies of the `Madras Almanac' and containing brief personal, family and financial notes; also p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1790-1808; 1983
Extent:
15 volumes

9. Mss Eur F234

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F234
Title:
Grant Duff Collection: papers of Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (1829-1906), MP 1857-81, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India 1868-74, Governor of Madras 1881-86; also includes correspondence with numerous British and European public figures; some correspondence of his son Evelyn Grant Duff (1863-1926), diplomat 1886-1913, and of other members of the Grant Duff family; draft biographies of Sir M E Grant Duff and Lady Grant Duff by their descendant Sheila Sokolov-Grant.
Scope & Content:
Grant Duff Collection: papers of Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (1829-1906), MP 1857-81, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India 1868-74, Governor of Madras 1881-86, including correspondence with numerous British and European public figures; some correspondence of his son Sir Eve...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1852-1916
Extent:
343 items

10. Mss Eur F438

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F438
Title:
Letter, dated 28 Feb 1808, from Thomas Morris Keate (d c1821), East India Company servant, Bombay 1796-c1821, to [his brother ?] Robert Keate, Army Medical Board Office, complaining about the loss of job opportunities for Bombay civil servants caused by the transfer of Malabar from Bombay to Madras, which is particularly provoking in view of the recent acquisitions of conquered territories by Madras.
Scope & Content:
Letter, dated 28 Feb 1808, from Thomas Morris Keate (d c1821), East India Company servant, Bombay 1796-c1821, to [his brother ?] Robert Keate, Army Medical Board Office, complaining about the loss of job opportunities for Bombay civil servants caused by the transfer of Malabar from Bombay to Madr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1808
Extent:
2 folios