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Mrs. Joan S. Cruikshank

TS articles written and published in India. Copyright

  1. Camping in Oudh; letters from a mother in camp to her little girl who stayed at home:
    • ‘Our tea party.’ 1928.
    • ‘Our morning ride.’ 1927.
    • ‘About the Chawkidars and the cough mixture.’ 1932.
    • ‘About a dinner party we were given but really gave ourselves.’ 1932.
    • ‘Mugger shooting.’ 1932.
  2. Camp doings day by day:
    • ‘Baksheesh One Anna:’ 1930.
    • ‘A Shikar in the Terau: a “Lucky Pig”.’ 1932.
    • ‘When you meet a bear.’ 1924.
    • ‘A jungle lord walks abroad.’ Written in India 1930, copied and published in 1936.
    • ‘”Tibbie” – cat v. krait.’ 1931.
    • ‘Visiting purdah ladies in Oudh.’ 1928.
    • ‘A flight of wild duck.’ 1930.
    • ‘An evening with a rajah’s family.’ 1928.
    • ‘From a howdah – “Mark”:’ 1932.
  3. On the road in India:
    • ‘Motoring in the enchanted hour.’ 1929.
    • ‘A night’s rest in the Himalayas.’ 1931.
  4. A short story, ‘The missionary and the Chawkidar.’ 1939.
  5. ‘Jail – an inspection.’ 1928.
  6. TS extracts from A Memsahib in India by Joan. S. Cruikshank. (Reminiscences of the wife of a Deputy Commissioner in U.P.)
  7. TS article ‘A meeting with Mahatma Gandhi in Naini Tal’, 1932.