Letters from Euphemia Margaret ('Peggy') Stokes, teacher at St Christopher's Training College, Madras 1937-60, to her parents and other family members.
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Letters from Euphemia Margaret (`Peggy') Stokes, lecturer at St Christopher's Training College, Madras 1937-60, to her parents and other family members.
Letters from Lt Thomas Clode (1786-1812), surveyor, Madras Army 1805-12, to his brother William Clode and sister-in-law Betsy; also extract from a letter referring to Thomas Clode's death
Diaries and notebooks, including transcripts, of Col Henry Whitlock Hight (1900-83)
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Diaries and notebooks, including transcripts, of Colonel Terence Henry Whitlock Hight (1900-83), his grandfather General Sir Charles Hight (1821-1905) and his great uncle and godfather General William Henry Whitlock (1833-1900), relating to their individual services in the Indian Army and the M...
Letters home to his parents, from Capt Melville Edward Bertram Portal
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Letters home to his parents, from Capt Melville Edward Bertram Portal, British Army, ADC to Viscount Goschen, Governor of Madras 1924-29, describing his duties whilst accompanying the Governor on his tours, and his marriage to the Governor's daughter, Hon Cicely Goschen
Letters from Bertram Percy Portal (1866-1949), 17th Lancers, ADC to Sir Arthur Havelock, Governor of Madras 1896-98, to his mother, Mary (nee Hicks-Beech), wife of Sir Wyndham Portal
Papers of Arthur Reginald Brand (1895-1971), Indian Forest Service, Assistant Conservator of Forests, Madras, c1933-c1947, Major in the Army of India Reserve of Officers, awarded the MBE for growing Pyrethrum (Division) Nilgiris 1945