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Place Maymyo, Burma

1. Mss Eur F171

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Mss Eur F171
Title:
Werge Thomas Collection: papers of Brig-Gen John Nicholson (1821-57), Bengal Army 1839-57, and other members of his family; of General Sir James Abbott (1807-96), Bengal Artillery 1823, Deputy Commissioner, Hazara 1847-53; of their biographer Evelyn Maude Werge Thomas (1891-1975); and of other members of the Thomas family, including Geoffrey David Ivor Thomas (1905-74), Indian Civil Service, Burma from 1930.
Scope & Content:
Evelyn Maude Werge Thomas (1891-1975), formerly Evelyn Kaye, stage designer and author, had been working since 1938 on two interconnected biographies. The first was a substantial biography of Brigadier-General John Nicholson (1821-1857), Bengal Army 1839-1857, who commanded the Punjab mobile col...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1746-1972
Extent:
155 items

2. Mss Eur F260

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Mss Eur F260
Title:
Ernest Gordon Stackhouse Apedaile papers.
Scope & Content:
Letters home to his father, Auntie Kath and Uncle Fred from Ernest Gordon Stackhouse Apedaile (b 1908), Indian Civil Service, Burma 1932-47, written from Meiktila, Pyinmana, Maymyo, Rangoon (while serving in the Government Secretariat), and Prome.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1946
Extent:
4 folders

3. Mss Eur F575

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Mss Eur F575
Title:
Ever Your Loving Mully - typescript transcript of letters to her mother from Muriel (Mully) Bowden (nee Britten) (1892-1947), wife of Herbert Fredrick Bowden (1886-1966), District Manager of Bombay Burma Trading Corporation, describing their life in Burma.
Scope & Content:
Ever Your Loving Mully - typescript transcript of letters to her mother from Muriel (Mully) Bowden (nee Britten) (1892-1947), wife of Herbert Fredrick Bowden (1886-1966), District Manager of Bombay Burma Trading Corporation, describing their life in Burma.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1922-1924
Extent:
1 Volume

4. Mss Eur Photo Eur 343

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Mss Eur Photo Eur 343
Title:
Hugh Graham Wilkie papers.
Scope & Content:
Copy of letters, dated Dec 1941-Apr 1942, of Hugh Graham Wilkie (b 1893), Indian Civil Service, Burma 1919-47, Chief Secretary to Government of Burma 1940-46, and his wife Margaret Wilhelmina Owen Wilkie (b 1900), on the Japanese invasion of Burma and their evacuation to India; also copy of claim...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1941-1942
Extent:
1 folder

5. Photo 1402(31)

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Photo 1402(31)
Title:
31. Shan scribe. Photographer(s): Griffin, Alfred Sercombe.
Scope & Content:
A young Shan monk working on a palm leaf manuscript within the temple grounds flanked by other young monks.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1908
Extent:
1 item