Subject file. Animals: anecdotes, curiosities, and graves, including ‘hand-to-hand’ fight with tiger in 1925 of Olive M Smithies (wife of E A Smithies, Indian Forest Service)
Subject file. ‘Ashburner’s Table’: papers relating to table once belonging to Col Robert Ashburner, Collector of Khandesh, inscribed with names of guests at Ashburner’s ‘shikar parties’ 1869-1873, including biographical notes on the guests.
Subject file. Funerals, Military: description of procession (1920-21); photographs of funeral of General Sir James Willcocks (d1926) (cf. Chowkidar, vol 7, no 2 (1994), and of Sgt Guttridge (1938), showing military procession with arms reversed; letter from Roy Nissen describing procedure at Simla
Subject file. Hyderabad: biographical notes by Omar Khalidi on British Residents in Hyderabad 1779-1947; note on Giulia Nevill (nee Lever), wife (c1875-97) of Col Richard Nevill, Commandant, Hyderabad State Forces; correspondence on restoration of model of Residency in the grounds
Subject file. Medical: papers relating to Priscilla Winters (c1842-81) - the woman who inspired St Stephen’s Hospital, Delhi; proposed memorial to Sir Ronald Ross, discoverer of transmission of malaria; vaccination; treatment of invalids from India at the Cape; notes of lecture by Charles V Perr...
Subject file. Victoria, Queen: correspondence from Queen’s Chaplain at Windsor concerning wish of Michael, club carpenter at Ootacamund, to deposit gifts in Queen Victoria’s tomb