Brigadier William Harry Evans (1876-1956), Royal Engineers 1896-1931; chief engineer, Western Command, Quetta, 1927-31; author of works on lepidoptera.
Brigadier-General George E, Pereira (1865-1923), Military Attache, Peking, 1905-10; traveller in China, 1921-23. Includes a copy of his Report on a journey from Peking to Lhasa (1923). Also his brother, Major-General Sir Cecil Pereira (1869-1942).
Field-Marshal Baron Gustav Mannerheim (1867-1951), Imperial Russian Army 1887-1917; Commander-in-Chief, Finnish Army, 1918; visited India and Nepal, 1937; President of Finland, 1944. Includes newspaper articles and letters about him.
L'autobiographie de l'Ecrivain Sovietique Bruno Yassenski. Translation of an article originally published in Russian in 1931. Also English translation of part of a novel by Yassenski, People Change Their Skins (Moscow, 1934), describing Bailey's adventures in Tashkent.