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Major accessions to repositories in 1999 relating to Imperial History |
Local
- Andrew, David and Alexander Beal, soldiers in India: corresp 1844-52 (MS 643)
- Petition against the slave trade by inhabitants of Lee c1814 (A99/4)
- Grimson family: letters from Australia 1855-74 (1321)
National
- Henry Charles Baggally, assistant engineer South Indian Railway: letters 1873-78 (Mss Eur C906)
- Gerald Chetwynd-Talbot, Private Secretary to Governor-General of India: letters received reflecting English reactions to the Indian Mutiny 1857 (Mss Eur C860)
- George Cracklow, lieutenant in the Bengal Horse Artillery: letters rel to the Indian Mutiny, in particular the relief of Lucknow 1857-58 (Mss Eur 9900/26)
- Richard Kay, cotton factor: diaries and associated notebooks describing journeys in India, to Canton and in the Levant 1818-25 (Mss Eur 9900/27)
- Anthony Denys Firth, brigadier: memoirs of service during World War Two with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment in India and Burma
- Sir Thomas Jacomb Hutton (1890-1981), lieutenant general: papers, incl rel to World War One and the retreat from Burma in World War Two
- Frank Stanley Robinson, captain: journal covering his experiences as a Japanese prisoner of war in Singapore and on the Burma-Siam railway 1942-45
- Sir Henry Clinton, general: letters describing Abercromby's campaign in the West Indies 1796 (1999-08-100)
- William Anthony Colbourne, lieutenant-colonel 15th Punjab Regiment: report on Tibet Reliefs 1937 (1999-02-19)
- Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin, general: letters to Lt-Colonel Carlo Joseph Doyle during 3rd Maratha War 1817-18 (1999-04-105)
- Alfred John Farre Doulton, lieutenant-colonel (addnl): diaries of staff service with 23rd Indian Division 1943-46 (1999-11-2)
- Edward Leary, lieutenant Bechuanaland Border Police and South African Constabulary: papers, incl diary of Jameson Raid and Matabele War 1895-1910 (1999-07-20)
- Joseph Reid, private Rifle Brigade: letters from Canada and the Crimea 1849-55 (1999-05-130)
- Alfred Angelo Simmons, lieutenant 29th (The Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot: letters from India, incl rel to the 1st Sikh War 1842-45 (1999-05-31)
- William Staveley (1784-1854), lieutenant-general, and Edmund Staveley (b 1836), major-general: family corresp (1999-06-149)
- Laurie Dunkin Wedd, lieutenant Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment: Boer War letters 1899-1901 (1999-06-94)
- 8th Battalion, 9th Jat Regiment: disbandment nominal roll, listing men's villages 1946 (1999-08-5)
- Rev Myles Edmund Athy: diary of voyage to Australia 1855-56
- Thomas Carr, Archbishop of Melbourne: diary of voyage from Galway to Australia 1899
- Alexander Low Bruce, son-in-law of David Livingstone: corresp and papers rel to business and politics 1858-93 (Acc 11777)
- John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir: final copies and drafts of royal letters written as Governor-General of Canada 1935-40 (Acc 11738)
- Helen Thom, missionary in Aden: memoirs 1963-72 (Acc 11705)
- Alfred Pinkerton and his daughters, emigrants: letters from Wangaratta, Australia, to Dunaverney, County Antrim 1876-1907 (D/4242)
- Colonial Office (addnl): private office papers 1949-66 (CO 967)
- Crown Agents for the Colonies and Crown Agents for Overseas Governments and Administrations: private office papers 1966-75 (CAOG 22)
Special
- Norman Charles Watney (1901-1998), railway engineer: papers rel to career with North Western Railway in India (Acc.no.977)
- John Davy, physiologist and anatomist: journals of travels in Ceylon, Malta and West Indies 1816-47 (MSS 7696-7701)
University
- Sir James Cockle, chief-justice of Queensland, mathematician: letters (4 vols) to Robert Hartley 1858-62 (Add 9539)
- Thomas Fioth De Haviland, army engineer: corresp and papers rel to surveys and engineering work in India c1805-50 (Add 9548)
- Richard Cornwallis Neville, 4th Baron Braybrooke: diary of military life in Canada, incl report of a rebellion at Beauharnois 1838-40 (Add 9556)
- James Egbert Simmons, Captain in the 5th Regiment of Fusiliers: letters (94) to his mother from the Mauritius garrison 1847-55 (Add 9549)
- Robert Henry Walker, Archdeacon of Uganda: letters to his family and letters from Apolo Kagwa and Ham Mukasa (Add 9552)
- Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: records 1698-1937 (SPCK Papers)
- Kenneth Brundle, architect: memoirs of life in Malaya and Singapore 1941-42 (RCS Library, BAM Addenda)
- Thomas Herbert Richard Cashmore, colonial doctor: account of his service in Kenya 1953-63 (RCS MSS 46c99)
- Wallace Kelly, colonial policeman: corresp and papers rel to Malaya, Sarawak and Borneo 1936-50 (RCS Library, Kelley/Pim Collection)
- Sir Robert Vidal Rhodes James (1933-1999) MP, historian: papers rel to the Gallipoli campaign (RJMS)
- Sir John Carmichael (1910-96), colonial administrator (addnl): papers rel to Sudanese economic affairs and trek diary (SAD G//S 1220)
- Tankred Tunstall-Behrens (1878-1939), Lt-Colonel, Royal Engineers: corresp and papers incl records rel to boundary commissions (Tunstall-Behrens Papers)
- James Finlay & Co Ltd, tea planters, cotton mfrs and East Indies merchants, Glasgow: papers of Hugh B Muir incl journals of proceedings in Bombay, journal of mission to India and corresp c1865-1929 (Acc 1829)
- Alexander L Banks, missionary in India with the Regions Beyond Missionary Union: photographs, copies of letters and diary 1899-1949 (MS 380389)
- Thomas Beighton, London Missionary Society missionary, and Abigail, his wife: typescripts and photocopies of corresp from Malacca and Penang 1818-21 (MS 380691)
- Liberation (addnl): records incl corresp, annual reports and publications c1970-89 (Liberation)
- Brooke family, Rajahs of Sarawak (addnl): corresp and papers rel to British involvement in Sarawak c1934-50
- Louis Botha, Boer General: letters seeking support following the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging 1902 (MSS.Afr.s.2307)
- Schalk Burger, Boer General: letters seeking support following the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging 1902 (MSS.Afr.s.2308)
- Sir Thomas Forwell Buxton, philanthropist (addnl): corresp and papers, incl letters from Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce 1805-1903 (MSS Brit Emp s 559)
- John Conradie, university lecturer and nationalist activist in Rhodesia: papers c1965-85
- Hugh Marshall Hole, colonial administrator: letters c1890-1937
- Sidney Frederick Marriott, District Commissioner, Fiji: papers c1875-1930 (MSS.Pac.s.121)
- Sir Arthur George Rixson Mooring, British Resident at Zanzibar: papers 1902-64
- Frederick Spire, administrator in Uganda: papers c1895-1999
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