Inscribed "To dear Minnie, with Mary Anne's love, on her 13th Birthday, June 18th 1870" The pages before the title page have annotations giving details of family births, marriages and deaths.
Includes letters from Minnie Wilson and from W H Wilson's sister Charlotte; correspondence relaring to the death of Captain Arthur Henry Wilson, East Yorkshire Regiment, killed in Belgium during the First World War; and correspondence related to research by Colonel John Bainbridge Wilson into "La...
Correspondence regarding the Wilson Crest and Coat of Arms, the purchase of miniatures of General Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson, and a visit to Charlton House in Kent
Papers relating to the service history of William Henry Wilson
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Record of service of William Henry Wilson, Bombay Staff Corps. Commission documents. Handwritten account by W H Wilson of his service career. Notes by W H Wilson on important visitors (Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence; the Tsesarevich Nicholas II of Russia; the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of A...
Photograph of William Henry Wilson, aged 17, in a travel case; and a brass plaque present to Wilson by Sardar Mir Abdul Ali Khan Bahadur as a token of loyalty and gratitude
Official correspondence relating to William Henry Wilson's career
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Includes mention of the Fair at Dakore in 1870, a riot at Malegaon during the Moharam and Dasara festivals in 1885, and the capture of members of a Koli gang of dacoits in 1887.