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201. Mss Eur B143

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B143
Title:
Plowden Family papers.
Scope & Content:
Letter, dated 1781, from Richard Chicheley Plowden (1743-1830), Bengal Civil Service 1780-88, East India Company Director 1803-29, written on a journey from Chunar to Lucknow to his wife at Lucknow; also letter, dated 1804, from their son George Augustus Chicheley Plowden (1785-1804), Bengal Civi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1781-1804
Extent:
7 folios

202. Mss Eur B187

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B187
Title:
Sophia Plowden papers.
Scope & Content:
Letter, dated 4 Apr 1783, from Mrs Sophia Plowden, wife of Richard Chicheley Plowden (1743-1830), Bengal Civil Service 1780-88, East India Company Director 1803-29, to her sister Lucy giving news of her life in Calcutta including a description of her participation in a masquerade dressed as a Kas...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1783
Extent:
12 folios

203. Mss Eur B197

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B197
Title:
Henry Elmsley Busteed papers.
Scope & Content:
`Echoes from Old Calcutta, being chiefly reminiscences of the days of Warren Hastings, Francis, and Impey' (4th edn, London, 1908), by Henry Elmsley Busteed (1833-1912), Madras Medical Service 1855-86; presented by the author to his daughter, with obituaries to Busteed, and two letters to him fro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908-1911
Extent:
1 volume; 16 folios

204. Mss Eur B212

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B212
Title:
Samuel Carrington papers.
Scope & Content:
Notebook containing copies of letters (1857-1858) and original letters (1857-79) from Samuel Carrington (b 1832), Civil Engineer, East Indian Railway 1857-87; describing voyage to India, the Mutiny, work on railways, family matters, and travels including visit to Japan (1875), China and other pl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1857-1881
Extent:
2 items

205. Mss Eur B241

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B241
Title:
William Maule papers.
Scope & Content:
Two letters, dated 7-20 Apr 1856 and 18-19 Jun 1857, from William Maule, assistant to Shearwood and Co cabinet-makers, Calcutta, to Alfred Elliott of Hastings, describing life in Calcutta and the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1856-1857
Extent:
16 folios

206. Mss Eur B242

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B242
Title:
Diary of an unidentified Army Officer, describing a voyage down the Ganges from Chunar to Calcutta Aug-Dec 1853; tours of Calcutta and district Dec 1853-Jan 1854; and a voyage from Calcutta to England, described as far as Malta Feb-Mar 1854.
Scope & Content:
Diary of an unidentified Army Officer, describing a voyage down the Ganges from Chunar to Calcutta Aug-Dec 1853; tours of Calcutta and district Dec 1853-Jan 1854; and a voyage from Calcutta to England, described as far as Malta Feb-Mar 1854.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1853-1854
Extent:
1 volume

207. Mss Eur B260

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B260
Title:
Robert George Hobbes papers.
Scope & Content:
`Scenes in the Cities and Wilds of Hindostan': manuscript by Private Robert George Hobbes (1821-99), Bengal Army 1839-43, clerk on the staff of the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces; later incorporated into Hobbes's `Reminiscenses of seventy years life, travel and adventure', 2 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1852
Extent:
1 volume

208. Mss Eur B261

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B261
Title:
Ernest Walter Saxton papers.
Scope & Content:
Letters from Ernest Walter Saxton (b 1866), Indian Post Office 1890-1921, to Rose Sophia Goldswain, prior to their marriage, mainly of a personal nature but also referring to Saxton's social life in Calcutta and Bombay, and to current events such as earthquakes, riots and plague.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1896-1897
Extent:
1 portfolio

209. Mss Eur B354

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B354
Title:
Harriet Atkinson papers.
Scope & Content:
Journal of Harriet Atkinson (b 1820) describing her voyage from Liverpool to Calcutta in 1837 and her return journey the following year.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1837-1838
Extent:
1 volume

210. Mss Eur B366

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B366
Title:
G T Allen papers.
Scope & Content:
`The Traveller's Scrapbook': manuscript volume by G T Allen, apparently compiled 1853, but including an account of his journey in 1841 from India to England by the overland route via Egypt; and descriptions of Calcutta, Benares, Delhi, Lahore and Ceylon; illustrated with pen and ink drawings.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1841-1853
Extent:
1 volume; 21 folios

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