Mss Eur F252/9

Diary includes the following:

• Folios 1&2: letter from ‘U.J.’ to Harry Champion, dated 22^nd August 1915, on subjects that include the weather, excursions, family news, and a collection of insect specimens received from Harry Champion, [loose item]
• Folio 4 verso: newspaper cutting showing an article entitled ‘Duties of Indian Civil Servants’ (27^th October 1915)
• Folio 18 verso: photograph of a fishing boat near Bombay
• Folio 19 verso: photograph on board the vessel ss. Arabia with the description ‘sorting the mails near Bombay’
• Folio 20 verso: photograph with title ‘In Bombay’ showing Ox-cart and a domed building
• Folio 22 verso: photograph of Ox-cart in Bombay
• Folio 26 verso: photograph of ‘Native Sweet Venders at Jhansi’
• Folio 30 verso: photograph entitled ‘Oliphant starting out from Singapore on Chhota Chanchal’ showing two persons sitting on an elephant
• Folio 32 verso: photograph of the trunk of a young Ficus Bengalensis tree on Haldu, Belraien (18^th December 1915)
• Folio 34 verso: photograph of ‘Bellraien Bungalow’ (18^th December 1915)
• Folio 36 verso: photograph of ‘Mrs Oliphant and her Garial -14½’’’ (18^th December 1915)
• Folio 38 verso: photograph of ‘Skinning a Garial’ (Mohan R., 18^th December 1915)
• Folio 38 verso: photograph of ‘The End of the Garial’ (18^th December 1915)
• Folio 40 verso: photograph entitled ‘Ready for the Day’s Beat’ showing elephants carrying people (December 1915)
• Folio 40 verso: photograph of Elephants at Sonaripur (December 1915)
• Folio 42 verso: photograph of ‘beating for gond’ showing an elephant at Khari, Christmas, 1915
• Folio 44 verso: photograph entitled ‘Where did the bullet go? – Gond at Mujhla’
• Folio 44 verso: photograph of ‘loading up a gond’ on an elephant
• Folio 47 verso: photograph of ‘most of the Christmas Bag,’ Kheri, 1915, with Mrs Oliphant and Willoughby beside a tiger skin outside of tents
• Folio 47 verso: photograph of ‘the larger panther’
• Folio 49 verso: photograph of ‘Trophies of our Christmas Shoot’
• Folio 51 verso: photograph entitled ‘The morning bath at the Well,’ showing elephants (Sonaripur, December 1915)
• Folio 53 verso: photograph entitled ‘Doctoring Kambeli at Dudwa’ showing an elephant with two turbaned figures in attendance (14^th January 1916)
• Folio 55 verso: photograph of Sonaripur Rest House
• Folio 57 verso: photograph of Phanta at Sonaripur
• Folio 61 verso: photograph of ‘The end of a Plotline’ (29^th January 1916)
• Folio 61 verso: photograph of ‘Running a Plotline - The Phawawale’ (29^th January 1916)
• Folio 63 verso: photograph entitled ‘My First Tiger, a 7ft 8inch tigress’ (Chandan Chowki, 12^th February 1916)
• Folio 64 verso: photograph of ‘The Chandan Chowki Tigress’ (13^th February 1916)
• Folio 66 verso: photograph of a tree trunk entitled ‘A First Class ÛSNA’
• Folio 66 verso: photograph of tree Ficus Rumphii on Terminalia Tomentosa (Edge of Railway Fire Line, Chandan Chowki, 20^th February 1916)
• Folio 69 recto: photograph of ‘First Class Sal Marked to be Felled and as fit for Extraction in the Log’ (Plot 5, 2^nd February 1916)
• Folio 70 verso: photograph entitled ‘”Condemned to Death” Blazing a CL.I Sal’ (Plot 5 near Chandan Chowki, 22^nd February 1916)
• Folio 72 verso: photograph of ‘A tangle of Millettia Auriculata’ (19^th February 1916)
• Folio 79 verso: attached pressing of the stem and leaves of unnamed specimen
• Folio 83 verso: photograph of ‘100ft Line from Dudwa to Sonaripur’ (3^rd March 1916)
• Folio 85 verso: photograph of ‘Changa Nala’
• Folio 87 verso: photograph of ‘Bela Persua (R.H) in course of construction (31^st March 1916)
• Folio 87 verso: photograph of ‘Sinking a Well – 20’ Section Ready, Bela Persua’ (31^st March 1916)
• Folio 91 verso: photograph of ‘Bringing in a Nilgai’ (Dudwa, 2^nd April 1916)
• Folio 91 verso: photograph of a ‘Nilgai’ (Dudwa, 2^nd April 1916)
• Folio 93 verso: photograph of The Residency, Lucknow (8^th April 1916)
• Folio 93 verso: photograph of The Bara Imambara Mosque, Lucknow (8^th April 1916)
• Folio 95 verso: photograph of The Bara Imambara, Lucknow (8^th April 1916)
• Folio 95 verso: photograph of Darwaza, Lucknow (8^th April 1916)
• Folio 97 recto: photograph of the Bara Imambara from Victoria Park, Lucknow (8^th April 1916)
• Folio 97a: photograph [loose item] with description on the revers ‘this is myself in camp after work’ (signed H.)
• Folio 98 verso: photograph of a view in Mysore ‘where H S Narayana is working’
• Folio 98 verso: photograph of tree ferns
• Folio 98a: undated newspaper cutting showing an article on a proposed survey of the Mysore State forest resources [loose item]
• Folio 99a: small paper cutting showing the occupations of H G Champion, Mr W C Monro, Mr H W Moor and Mr B R Wood [loose item]
• Folio 100a: letter from Harry Champion (name of recipient illegible), dated 2^nd October 1934, on ideas for the ‘Diary job’ [loose item]