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571. Mss Eur F226

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F226
Title:
Memoirs of former members of the Indian Political Service or their wives
Scope & Content:
Indian Political Service Collection: memoirs of some thirty-five former members of the Indian Political Service, or their wives, describing their experiences, chiefly in the period 1920-1947, as political officers in the Indian States, the North-West Frontier Province, Baluchistan, or the Residen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920-1947
Extent:
35 items

572. Mss Eur F231

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231
Title:
Papers of Robert Vernon Smith, 1st Baron Lyveden (1800-73) as President of the Board of Control 1855-58
Scope & Content:
Lyveden Collection: correspondence and papers of Robert Vernon Smith, 1st Baron Lyveden (1800-73), as President of the Board of Control 1855-58, relating in particular to the Persian Campaign 1856-57 and the Indian Mutiny 1857-58; also papers, dated 1898-1900, relating to the service and death of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1855-1858
Extent:
34 items

573. Mss Eur G38

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur G38
Title:
Genealogical and biographical material on Indian Princes, Chiefs, and landholders, and other prominent personalities in India both British and Indian, compiled mainly after his retirement by Lewin Bentham Bowring (1824-1910), Bengal Civil Service 1843-70
Scope & Content:
Bowring Collection: albums, originally three large volumes, containing genealogical and biographical material on Indian Princes, Chiefs, and landholders, and other prominent personalities in India both British and Indian, compiled mainly after his retirement by Lewin Bentham Bowring (1824-1910), ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
31 volumes

574. Mss Eur G45/8, f 28

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur G45/8, f 28
Title:
‘Chota Aden 11 Novr 1850’
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter Pencil sketch on paper. The sketch shows a maritime/topographical view of a coastal region near or at the British Settlement at Aden in present-day Yemen. The view was sketched from on board ship and shows one dhow and seven other craft; one of the vessels in the foregro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Nov 1850
Extent:

1 drawing on paper, pasted into volume

575. Mss Eur G45/10, f 102

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur G45/10, f 102
Title:
‘Aden 11. June going out of Harbour’ and ‘Trajan’s Bridge on the Danube. 16 June 1856’. Artist: Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject matter Two pencil sketches on paper. The sketch on recto, sketched from on board ship, shows a landscape scene looking inland from the harbour at Aden. The range of hills or mountains in the background probably indicate Jebel Shamsan, or the Shamsan Range, often referred to as ‘...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1855-1856
Extent:

2 pencil drawings on one sheet of paper, pasted into volume

576. Mss Eur Photo Eur 060

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur Photo Eur 060
Title:
Franklin Richardson Kendall papers.
Scope & Content:
Typescript copies of letters from Franklin Richardson Kendall (1839-1907), employed by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, to his mother in England; also annotated and indexed version.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1858-1866
Extent:
1 portfolio; 1 volume

577. Mss Eur Photo Eur 121

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur Photo Eur 121
Title:
Zaki Hanna Kour papers.
Scope & Content:
`The development of Aden and British relations with neighbouring tribes, 1839-1872', by Zaki Hanna Kour (Ph.D thesis, University of London, 1975). Published as `The History of Aden' (London 1981).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-1872
Extent:
1 volume

578. Mss Eur Photo Eur 253

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Mss Eur Photo Eur 253
Title:
Richard R Tewson papers.
Scope & Content:
`The Carefree Days of Planting': copy of brief memoir by Richard R Tewson (b 1915), including description of life, 1930s-60s, as Assistant Manager, and later Manager, of tea estates in Travancore and Kerala for the Kanan Devan Hills Produce Co Ltd; and as a Battery Commander, Mountain Artillery,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1963
Extent:
26 folios

579. Mss Eur Photo Eur 362

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur Photo Eur 362
Title:
Eira Gwendoline Du Breil papers.
Scope & Content:
Typescript copy of diary of Eira Gwendoline Platt (1887-1979), later Mrs du Breil, kept during her voyage to India, and describing her tour to India, Aden, Egypt and Sudan.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903-1904
Extent:
1 volume

580. Photo 430/75

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/75
Title:
Curzon Collection: Curzon's first year as Viceroy
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains informal snapshots and work by professional photographers, showing views of various interiors, viceregal functions and events, together with landscape views of: Bombay, Lucknow, Calcutta, Barakpur, Mashobra, Bhopal, Benares, Narkanda, Delhi, Gwalior, Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1898-1900
Extent:
1 black full-leather, unpublished album (29 pages) containing 99 photographic prints pasted into volume (and one loose) with handwritten captions beneath

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