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Mss Eur F140/232
- Record Id:
- 040-002313734
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002313391
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000118.0x0003ca
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F140/232
- Title:
- First of 3 Journals (1867–73) of Jeffery Charles Amherst, fourth son of 2nd Earl Amherst
- Scope & Content:
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Genre/Subject Matter
First of three journals covering Amherst’s service with his regiment and furloughs in India and Europe between 1867 and 1873. Watercolour, pen and ink and pencil drawings interspersed throughout the journal. There are a number of blank pages.
1 On board the Bangalore. ‘Outward Bound’
2 Passengers on deck
3 ‘Queen of Spains Chair and Apes Hill with the Don Ford’ [two sketches]
3v ‘Rock of Gibraltar -/67’
4 ‘The Great Pyramid – Cairo – Dec. 26th /67’
5 ‘Deolallee’ and ‘Berwee Camp – View from my tent door’ [two sketches]
6 ‘Biora Camp’
7 Hunter on a charpoy in a tree
8 ‘Sambur Febu 3rd/68’
8v ‘Tiger Shooting February 29th /68’ [two sketches]
9 ‘From the Camp. Deeoree. March 15th /68’ and ‘Pariah Hunting’ [two sketches]
10 ‘The Residency – Lucknow April 5th /68’
11 ‘Dinner in our camp. May 2nd /68’
12 Shikar scenes. ‘Neighlgei, Saib – Neighlgei. May 21st /68’ and ‘The Jungle Sour.’ [two sketches]
13 ‘The half hour before Mess-hour. “Que he! Brandy shrab balatee pane laou”’
14 ‘Shooting for the Cup, 800 yds. June 18. /68’ and ‘Are you ready? Pull – July 8th/68’
15 ‘Blackbuck shooting. July 28th’
[Unnumbered] Unidentified, unfinished mountainous landscape
16 ‘A peep of the Snow range from Cheena. Sept. 20th 68’
16v ‘Sookatal – Deo Kanta & Church’ ‘View from the Upper Mall, Nynee Tal. Oct. 9th /68’ [title written across 16v–17]
17 ‘Government House & Cheena’ ‘View from the Upper Mall, Nynee Tal. Oct. 9th /68’ [title written across 16v–17]
17v ‘Road Between Mungolie & Karlo doongee. Oct. 9th /68’
18 Dhooly
19 ‘Midday rest out Shooting Nov 16th /68'
20 ‘View from the Rail between Allahabad & Chunan– Nov 24th 68’
21 ‘Crossing the Ganges December 26th, 68’
22 ‘View from our Garden – January /69.’
23 Parade ground
24 ‘In the Musketry Camp.’
25 ‘Garrison Parade Ground & Church. Umballa.’
26 ‘The Hills from Umballa–’
27 The Amir of Afghanistan, Sher ‘Ali Khan ‘Shah Ghazee’
28 Hog hunting
29 ‘The pleasures of riding on an Elephant. May 9th .69’
30 ‘A savage old Boar. May 11th /69’
31 A beggar ‘Common objects by the Roadside’
32 Unfinished village scene
Inscriptions
Flyleaves signed and dated as follows:
'Jeffery C Amherst -
/67 /68 & /69'
Labels
Letterpress affixed to inner rear endpaper:
‘From Bowden & Co.
314 Oxford Street,
Corner of Harewood
Place,
London, W.’
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- Amherst Collection
India Office Private Papers - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002313391
036-003283718
040-002313734 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur F140 : Papers of 1st Earl Amherst, Governor-General of Bengal 1823-28
Mss Eur F140/232-234 : AMHERST, JEFFERY CHARLES (1844-1877) Fourth son of 2nd Earl Amherst. British Army. Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own)…
Mss Eur F140/232 : First of 3 Journals (1867–73) of Jeffery Charles Amherst, fourth son of 2nd Earl Amherst - Hierarchy:
- 032-002313391[0040]/036-003283718[0007]/040-002313734
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F140
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 case bound, unpublished volume (unknown number of pages), illustrated with 42 watercolour, pencil and pen and ink drawings
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1867
- End Date:
- 1869
- Date Range:
- 12 Dec 1867-12 Jun 1869
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions
Volume: 21 x 17 cm
- Source of Acquisition:
- Mss Eur F140/232–234 deposited on permanent loan by the 5th Earl of Amherst, M.C., together with Add.Or.2538–2540, WD2966, and P1743; purchased 1997.
- Arrangement:
- The volume has not been foliated throughout; however, the drawings have been numbered and the numbers noted refer to the sequence of drawings as they appear in this volume.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)