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KARNEY PAPERS

(Evelyn Karney 1869-1953)

Given by Mrs. A.M. Hills

Microfilm Box 2 No. 12B

Evelyn Karney Published by Harrison & Crosfield Ltd. Colombo, Ceylon, 1966.

The life and work of Evelyn Karney at her mission station at Talawa, Ceylon; contains descriptions of the country, people, and her work at the mission; her work at maternity hospitals and dispensaries which she had built; work during the war; biographical note; list of books she wrote.


KENNEDY PAPERS

(B.C. and C.E. Kennedy)

On indefinite loan from Major Kennedy's sister, Miss Dorothy Wordsworth Kennedy:

BOX I

  1. Carthill, A. (pseudonym for B.C. Kennedy), The lost dominion. Blackwood & Sons, 1924.
  2. Carthill, A. Madampur. Blackwood & Sons, 1931.
  3. Carthill, A. The company of Cain. Blackwood, 1929.

BOX II

  1. Envelope containing:
      Letters written to his father B.C. Kennedy, I.C.S. District Judge, Nasik, by Indians expressing gratitude etc. 1900, 1902-03, 1905.
  2. Papers connected with the assassination of A.M.T. Jackson, I.C.S. Collector of Nasik, on Tuesday 21 December 1909:
    • Invitation cards sent to B.C. Kennedy for two entertainments to be held in honour of Jackson's leaving Nasik District on Wednesday 22 December 1909;
    • manuscript account of the assassination by B.C. Kennedy, written the same night as it occurred, with a transcription by Major C. Kennedy;
    • TS request to B.C. Kennedy by Members of the Bar to close the Civil courts on 22 December 1909, in honour of Mr. Jackson.
  3. TS copies of reviews of B.C. Kennedy's books:
    • The Lost Dominion, 1924. Reviews in The Times; T.L.S.; The Daily News, (by A.J. Cummings); The Aberdeen Press; The Morning Post; The Daily Gazette, Karachi, (by Sir Montague de Pomeroy Webb); The Western Mail, Cardiff; The Yorkshire Post; The Newcastle Chronicle; letter to the Editor of The Times by Sir Michael O'Dwyer; The Glasgow Herald; The Scotsman.
    • The Outlook (history and political economy) published by G.P. Putnam Sons, New York. Review in The New York Times.
  4. Cutting from newspaper - ? - 'Picked from the wayside' by Vinode, 11 or 16 August 1923, referring to B.C. Kennedy's prowess as a judge.
  5. Envelope containing: photographs: District Court, Sholapur, December 1903, with B.C. Kennedy as District Judge; Bombay Presidency where Kennedy was Collector c. 1905-6-7 - photograph of European officers; a loyal address being made to Lord and Lady Willingdon in Ahmedabad during their visit as Governor of Bombay Presidency - Kennedy was Collector of Ahmedabad c. 1918; group including Kennedy among his Indian colleagues Bombay Presidency, c. 1905-6-7; undated, unnamed photograph of an Indian festival.
  6. Envelope containing fifteen miscellaneous letters, cards etc., 1907-27 including a letter 1907 from A. Maconochie, describing difference in amenities and administration in Portuguese Goa and British India.
  7. Five obituary notices of B.C. Kennedy from various papers.
  8. One review of A1 Carthill's book, Madampur.
  9. TS copy of a coronation ode.
  10. Envelope containing:
    • Map of N.W.F.P.
    • Map of Pamirs.
    • Four photographs of Waziristan 1920.
  11. 'Waziristan Operations`, by Major C.E. Kennedy. TS. 24 pp. Account of operations in the Third Afghan war, together with an account of the earthquake at Quetta in 1935. Both the Waziristan operations and the earthquake are illustrated by photographs, and the account also includes Major Kennedy's curriculum vitae.
  12. Books presented:
    • Thadani, R.V. The historic state trial of the Ali brothers and five others. Karachi, 1921. (Presented by the author to B.C. Kennedy, who was the presiding judge.)


KENNEDY (W.G.) PAPERS

(W.G. Kennedy)

Four photographs of the enthronement of the Thakur of Mahlog, 1936.

Commemorative photograph album of the Silver Jubilee celebrations of Jubbal State, 1910-35. (58 photographs)


KENYON (E.A.) PAPERS

(Eustace A. Kenyon)

Given by Lt. Col. W.P. Kenyon, on indefinite loan

BOX I

  1. 1880. Letters to his sister Mary. Daily activities; in Calcutta; trip to Burma; description of journey, Rangoon etc.
  2. 1881. Letters to his mother, Mary and his brother Edward, from Moulmein, then Calcutta then Moulmein. Description of the Telegraph Department; his pay, day to day activities, social and work; weather; family news; his journey by ship to Rangoon and road to Moulmein. Some letters incomplete.
  3. 1882. Letters to his family from Palat, Sittang, and Moulmein. Description of the country near Palat and Sittang; details of work, friends and social occasions; examinations of boys to become signallers; building of railway from Tavoy to Bangkok; enjoys polo; comments on Boer war; keeping the line clear of jungle and tall grass; list of servants and animals he owns; description of his new house; details of his Christmas celebrations.
  4. 1883. Letters to his family from Moulmein and from the jungle - in many cases his letters are partly in reply to letters he has received from his family. Preparations for survey party sent to make a trigonometrical survey; Rangoon patrolled nightly to protect people and property from dacoits and robbers; description of work away from Moulmein, setting lines and clearing undergrowth; testing electrical apparatus; examining books and cash records; use of elephants for the line work; contractors used for jungle clearing; returns to Moulmein March, but making plans to inspect lines etc. northwards to Shoaygheer and Tonglau and expects to be out to the end of April; saw men working in a mill, by electric lights; weather, rains; his gardens; social activities: dances, polo, hunt meetings, races, picnics, dinners, tennis; begins trip to Amherst; returns to Moulmein; Christmas celebrations.
  5. 1884. Letters to his family from Moulmein, Amherst, Simla, Ajmere, Tavoy, Myitta and Wagone etc. Day to day account of work and social engagements; preparations for trip into the jungle; possibility of leave of three months; trip from Moulmein to Tavoy; description of bridge building; line repairs; returns to Moulmein; languages spoken in the area; smallpox in villages; owing to illness of man at Tavoy he will not be able to get leave; will have to travel to Tavoy once a month; monsoon arrives; drought before the rains; races at Moulmein more trips described; good path necessary to keep the line in order; possibility of doing construction work on road from Tavoy to Siam border; his health is excellent and his family should not worry about him, he only drinks beer and does not smoke; details of route of new line to Siam; description of the town of Ahmedabad; details of travelling by train; starts work on the new line and road; descriptions of Pagayay and the P.W.D. and telegraph stores etc.; unable to assess when the work will be finished.
  6. 1885. Letters to his mother and brother from various stations in Burma and at Simla. Day to day account of work on the new line and new road; mileage between villages on road; illness amongst workmen slowing up the work; leave cancelled because of possibility of war with Russia; coolies and servants not well and very tired, hopes to get back to Tavoy to give them a rest; possibility of Siamese labour; line completed and returns to Tavoy; Kenyon not well; journey to Simla for leave; day to day events at Simla; hopes to stay longer than his leave; has asked not to go back to Burma; enjoys seeing English - flowers and fruits and vegetables.
  7. 1887. Two letters to his sister Tizie, from Ajmere.
  8. 1892. One letter to his sister Mary written at Calcutta; social life.
  9. 1893. Two letters, one to his mother and one to his sister, written from Calcutta. Christmas celebrations; holiday river trip from Calcutta to Narain and back to Calcutta with details of scenery etc.
  10. 1894. One letter written to his sister Tizie from Bombay. Monsoon weather; floods; plans for tour; some comments on political matters; quality of men being recruited for the civil service.
  11. 1896. Three letters written to his mother and two to Tizie from Calcutta. Has been married and they have arrived in India; have a new house; their servants; plague in Bombay; his wife, 'Ethel, busy with the 'Women's Friendly'; their garden; expecting a baby.
  12. 1897. Letters written to his mother from Calcutta and Darjeeling. Plague getting worse in Bombay and Karachi and neighbouring towns; servants running away from work; daughter born; possibility of failure of the monsoon which means famine; famine death rate much improved in recent years because of extension of railways; easier to move foodstuffs; some rioting in Calcutta; description of earthquake; wife and baby go to Darjeeling; he joins family; returns to Calcutta.
  13. 1898. Letters written to his mother and Mary from Calcutta. Social activities; son home; has left the contruction branch of the telegraph service and is now in the electrical branch; plague bad in Calcutta, causing labour shortage; difficulty in getting people to be inoculated; many of the labour ran away; taken up cycling; rainstorms; his wife has accident while driving; his wife plans to go home.

KENYON (W.P.) PAPERS

Lent by Lt. Colonel W.P. Kenyon

Delhi, Madras, Mysore, United Provinces, Bihar and Orissa, Rajputana, Bengal, Hyderabad, Bombay.

1957-1900

BOX I

  1. Letters from Captain Jonathan Fowler 8th Cavalry Cantonment Adjutant at Arcot to his cousin, Eliza Kenyon (nee Hawkins) grandmother of Lt. Colonel W.P. Kenyon:
    • Fort St. George, July 10-11 1857. Fall of Delhi believed to have taken place.- Atrocities. Madras and Bombay calm, though denuded of troops. Precautions in Madras. Fears for Cawnpore - High regard for Madras Fusiliers. Lord Canning's part. Report that detachments in readiness to march to the relief of Cawnpore were detained by the order of the Commander in Chief; certain news had arrived of fall of Delhi; the King to be hanged.
    • Madras, July 19 1857. Madras army still firm. Bad news of Cawnpore. On way to Bangalore. Madras army safe, as the troops have their families with them in Cantonments ? Difference in Bengal, families in the villages.
    • Bangalore, July 30 1857. Leaving for Madras, thence to Calcutta, as Governor General has accepted the offer of a Force from Madras Residency ? Leaves his wife Henrietta in perfect safety. Conduct. of troops in Hyderabad, Nagpur and Madras leaves him quite confident. Loss of Sir Henry Lawrence felt badly. Massacre of Cawnpore known, Nana Sahib defeated.
    • Arcot, August 26 1857. Regiment refused to proceed on the pay. Returned to dismount duty in Arcot.
    • Arcot, September 9 1857. Going to Vellore next day, on pleasure to join Managing Engineer who is taking 'a run down the line from Madras' by train, and asks Fowler to join him at Arcot. Muslim letters intercepted urging army to make a disturbance. The Colonel written to H.Q. asking for European reinforcements - Mahurram passed off quietly. More about safety - Last page missing.
    • (Arcot, see previous letter) September 11 (1857) Went to Vellore day before. The rest purely personal.
    • Arcot, September 25 1857. Troops pass through, thought to be sent to quell a disturbance at Vaniyambadi -Affair blew over. Description and comment on requisition dismissing naive troops. Numbers come to Fowler begging him to do what he could for them. The Colonel (Arbuthnot) writes privately to Adjutant General of the Army suggesting a small pension for loyal native officers. The 8th Light Cavalry cannot remain as a corps. Rumour that they will be gazetted into other regiments. Hear nothing from Bengal - censorship. Government news only looked on with suspicion. China troops landed in Calcutta and small numbers from Mauritius and the Cape. No progress. Madras fusiliers at Cawnpore awaiting for General Outram's force before moving on to Lucknow. England is told it is a purely military revolt. Feels great shame that his regiment only has defaulted.
    • Arcot, October 11 1857. Removal of an objectionable officer by the Company. Fowler gets majority. Report that Delhi has fallen, and Lucknow returned. Amusing report by Muslim population that Lord Elphinstone is to be King of Delhi. Colonel Arbuthnot's report gone in officially, and would be laid before Government Reports of the differences between Sir Colin Campbell and Lord Canning. Fowler wants a fearful punishment on rebels.
    • Arcot, November 11 1857. Henrietta his wife with him from Bangalore. Matters in Bengal very bad though Delhi taken - Havelock and Tottenham hemmed in. Attack on Neemuch bad. Madras province kept in order by one native regiment ? no European regiment. Rebellion among Nagphur Irregular troops quelled by the Kemptee Force, all natives of Madras Army. Attempts to bribe Hyderabad contingent failed. His Regiment alone did not do its duty but mutinied. Reason: Lord William Bentinck's interference with pay and pension. All trouble in Cavalry due to that order.
    • Arcot, November 26 1857. 8th Light Cavalry disbanded - Fowler's great distress. Men and officers dispersed among other Regiments. Men get same rates, officers do not. Can only hope for staff appointment. Asks Eliza to write to Mr. Lushington about appointment to staff. Very busy, Commander in Chief coming, 1st Kings Dragoon Guards being equipped for Bangalore. Captain Tottenham has been killed. Madras troops behaving very well.
    • Arcot, December 11 1857. General Havelock's death confirmed. Does not know what is to become of him. Other officers have got staff appointments.
    • Arcot, June 21 1858. Off to command 4th Light Cavalry at Futtepore (sic) in place of Col. Cumberledge ? Regrets the disbanding of his own regiment. Note added by Henrietta Fowler.
    • Gazeepore on the. Ganges, August 18 1858 Took 18 days from Calcutta. Calcutta fine, but very hot and smelly. At Gazeepore the country in the hands of the rebels. The post (tappal) repeatedly looted.
    • Gazeepore, September 2 1858. Troops out against rebel forces ? but do not succeed as the rebels have whole country with them. Mr. Bax the collector of the District says the countryside has never been so unsafe as now - worse than height of rebellion. 'Guerilla' tactics make round up of rebels difficult. Description of the way in which the natives surrender. Future of 8th Light Cavalry not known. Note on Lord Harris - Cliques and accuses him of sycophancy.
    • Gazeepore, September 13 1858. Very hot. Awaiting Lord Canning's proclamation. Two disarmed regiments and a Company of Native Artillery have mutinied in the Punjab. Details of his pay as a major on Full Batta. September 16. Letter from Neemuch which has only one house standing. 17 Brigadier Douglas leaving Sasseram to attack Jugdespore.
    • Kountadee opposite Buxhar on the Ganges, October 2 1858. Marching on Jugdespore, but prevented by torrential rain. No tents taken although monsoon not over. Diverted to other posts about 5 miles round Jugdespore. Total mismanagement by Brigadier Douglas.
    • Buxhar, October 9 1858. To march on the 13 to attack Jugdespore and prevent rebels escaping. Describes deployment of troops and his own command and the manoeuvres in detail. Horses of the 4th Cavalry taken from the disbanded 8th.
    • Jugdespore, October 20 1858. Description of attack on rebels at Berampore, Colonel Dudsford commanding. Fowler congratulated. In a ruined palace filled with bottles of champagne, moselle etc left by Europeans. Great drunkeness resulting.
    • Jugdespore, November 15-16 1858. Remaining since the amnesty proclaimed, rebels coming in slowly. Opinion of European footing in India. Movement of officers of old 8th Light Cavalry. His horse has arrived and the band of the 35th. Wild bulls in jungle which the soldiers shoot for extra rations. He has no loot except cup and saucer.
    • Jugdespore, Shahabad, November 30 1858 Majority of rebels not coming in, disbelief in amnesty. Story of a European lady captured by the rebels. Fowler offered amnesty to Heer Hissim Sing (sic). Arrival of Mr. Money a magistrate who refuses complete amnesty and consequently hostilities recommence. Incomplete.
    • Buxhar on the Ganges, December 19 1858 Left Judgespore on the 11 en route for Gazeepore, told not to cross the Ganges. Shahabad quiet, disarming continuing. Brigadier Douglas approved of Fowler's action with Heer Kissim Sing, and Mr. Money apologises. Refers to the confiscation of Oude which Fowler thought very doubtful in point of justice. Not true the Nana Sahib has crossed the Grand trunk Road. Still in the North of Oude and Tanta Tope, and making for Goozerat (sic).
  2. Letters from E.A. Kenyon, Indian Telegraph Service, 1881-1900, to relations at home.
    • 6 March 1881. Government Telegraph Office, Calcutta, to his sister Mary. Has received and unpacked his ornaments for walls from home. Describes a storm.
    • 29 March 1885. Sinbyoodine (sic) Sinbyubyin (Burma). Has been surveying. Brief visit to Amya by boat, meets an Assistant Superintendent and much pleasure in being able to talk to him about work etc. Elephant stolen. Some work nearly stopped because of sickness. Making path between Sinbyubyin and Amya - very slow. Flood time approaching. Comments on P.W.D. policy of road making and on the Afghan situation.
    • 6 June 1886. Ajmere (Rajputana) (sic). Personal.
    • 14 August 1886. Jeypoore (sic). Describes Salt pans at Sambhar Lake. Personal.
    • 22 May 1887. Ajmere. Heat. No wind so tatties do not work. Has inspected office. Discovery of P.O. clerk stealing stamps and destroying letters . Personal.
    • 25 June 1887. Nana. Coming on leave between August and. Christmas. Will be posted elsewhere. Does not like Europeans in Ajmere. Hopes for construction work.
    • 15 January 1889. Mokameh (Bihar and Orissa). Has been inspecting offices. Returning to working party. Hail-storm.
    • 9 March 1891. Ellore (Madras). Waiting to go to Calcutta. Describes unsociable engineer - has not dined once with him though in the same bungalow.
    • 23 October 1891. Vizagapatan. Great deal of work, 3 more European subordinate officers and several native officers being sent. Has been arranging for stores distribution from the Telegraph Office.
    • 19 April 1893. Calcutta Describes visit to Lucknow - remarks on the place where "'we slaughtered such a ghastly number of sepoys".
    • 8 January 1894. Calcutta. Gives list of social occasions. Has been to Old Wykhamist dinner and special meeting of the Club.
    • 21 March 1900. Secunderabad. (Hyderabad). Account of who he meets during inspection of the line (along the railway). Hyderabad very scattered. Was hoping to get away, but Nizam has reserved the whole train for a shooting party. Remarks on the use of railways in the famine.
    • 13 April 1900. Matteran (Bombay Pres.) With his wife and children who are in hotel. Descries incidents and characters.
    • 26 April 1900. Matteran. Describes life on leave. Mentions Boer War.
    • 22 December 1900. Bombay. Trying to clear up office work. Been to a levee (Lord Northcote's). Plans for Christmas.
    • 26 December 1900. Bombay. Describes Christmas Day.

Books:

The Coopers Hill Magazine Vol. XI No.10 November 1920. Obituary notice of Justice Allen Kenyon.

History of Services and copies of Testimonials of Mr. E.A. Kenyon, Director of Telegraphs, Indian Telegraph Department.

(These letters, received at a later date, have been incorporated in the collection received in 1971/72).


KILLINGLEY PAPERS

Given by the Rev. D.M. Killingley.

Punjab, N.W.F.P. 1926-1957

BOX I

Photograph album of the 15th Lancers Indian Cavalry Sialkhot, Loralai, Meerut, etc., 1926. Fully annotated with biographical details of most of the Afridi, Pathan and Sikh Officers and men and notes on their place, use and influence in the Regiment. There are photographs and notes of the Regiment on parade and on the march from Quetta to Loralai. The Last March 1936; Mess Silver.

Regimental Reunion 1937.

Regimental Sports and Displays.

Groups: English Officers; Indian Officers; Regimental Trumpeters; Adjutant and Clerks, M.G. Group; Signal Troop; the Squadrons; Sikhs XV Lancers.

Envelope containing 26 photographs and Christmas cards of the present day Regiment - 1957.

TS account of the Quetta earthquake 31 May 1935 by Captain D.M. Killingley written immediately after the earthquake for the Regimental Magazine of the 15th Lancers.

A vivid first hand account by Captain Killingley who was stationed in Quetta at the time, and who took part in the rescue operations.

BOX II

  1. File containing papers of the Indian Army Reunion Committee (later known as the Indian Cavalry Officers' Association) 1967-69.
  2. Secretary's circulars, minutes, accounts. 65pp.
  3. Miscellaneous papers.
  4. Details of King Edward VIPs Hospital for Officers, London.
  5. Polo in England 1945-70.
  6. Visits to India and Pakistan. Skinner's Horse and Probyb's Horse.
  7. Papers of the XV Lancers' Regimental. Association 1956-74. Mainly newsletters. 36pp.
  8. XV Lancers: personal letters. 105pp.
  9. TS of poem written by Dr. Siew-yue Killingley as a tribute to D.M.K.
  10. Packet of ten small photographs found among the papers of Col. D. Martin, R.E. (D.M.K's. brother-in-law) dated about 1900. Four are named - notables of the U.P. of the time: Kishan Kumar of Bilari (C292), Nawab Syeed Uddin Khan of Moradabad (C291), Pergamund Kishen of Bilari (C290), Rajah of Kasheepore (C289). All probably by Wm. Hobbs, Whitechapel.

BOX III

  1. TS and microfilm Memoir entitled: 'Lo The Plumed Troop': reminiscences of an Indian Cavalry Officer (XV Lancers) 1918-46. Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11 are on microfilm. Chapters 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 are typewritten. Three appendices, including one on the Memsahib.


KING PAPERS

(W.G. King and C.W. King)

Small Collections Box 14

Given by Mrs. L.S. Williams

'Diary of the Assistant Superintendent and Subdivisional Officer, Kachin Hills, Kamaing.' by C.W. King. January-February 1920. Printed by Government Press, Burma. 24pp.

Confidential report on the junior frontier meeting held at Manwyne (China) 20-25 February 1933. Printed. 8pp.

Confidential report on the junior frontier meeting held at Simapa, 10-18 February 1933. Printed. 8pp.

Confidential report on the frontier meeting, Northern Shan States 1933. Printed. 5pp.

Confidential report on the Burma-Yunnan frontier meetings and the hearings of frontier cases by junior courts, February and March 1933. Printed. 6pp.

Xerox copies of cuttings from The Rangoon Times relating to Mr. and Mrs. C.W. King, 1929-30; copy of obituary notices of Dr. W.G. King.

Extracts from the 'Memory book' written by W.G. King. Typescript. 11 pp.

(Note. There is a very full index of the above extracts in the box with the papers.)


KINLOCH PAPERS

(D.J. Kinloch)

Given by Dr. S. and Miss I. Macpherson

Microfilm Box 2 No. 17

1845-54. List of dates of appointment's and movements during Kinloch's service in India in the Artillery and his leave in Scotland in 1846 after only a year in India and after he had been ill; various letters and lists of the cost of his horses and their winnings; accounts for clothes etc.; a method of measuring distances dated 1822.

His first entry in his journal is dated 29 December 1848 on leaving Bombay by boat for Karachi, and the journal begins with his march to Schickarpore which took fifty-five days: he describes the journey in detail, giving dates, distances covered, birds, animals, and the scenery on the trip, and people and politics; day to day life at Schickarpore; cholera in the Cantonment; Brigadier Douglas dies and leaves his fortune to Kinloch who becomes very ill and is taken to Bombay leaving Schickarpore on 4 November 1849, arriving Bombay 3 December; 20 February to Mahbleshawar. Some pages have been torn out here, and there are several pages of poetry. 27 February 1853 to Poona; details of racing at Poona and amounts won on horses and those bought and sold; various marches and camps; prescriptions for cholera; October 1855 ill again; five pages headed 'Geological notes' and dated 17 April 1848; newspaper cutting relating to racing at Poona; lists of horses; lists of dates of Kinloch's service; list of birthdays of children (?); expenses of entering the 4th Artillery; poems; some odd pages of MS.


KINSMAN PAPERS

Small Collections Box 14

Given by Mrs. M. Kinsman

Laccadive Islands and Kerala 1920-1923

Xerox copies of letters written by her mother, Mrs. Gage when she accompanied her husband on an Inspection Tour of the Laccadive Islands in November and December 1920.

Description of travelling between islands, island life, people, domestic life, customs, by a young wife with her first experience of I.C.S. life and the area.

On loan:- A journal of the trip, illustrated by appropriate photographs - Incidents are described in the letters.. Photographs good but faded. 48pp. Also a brief description of a visit to Cannannore in 1922. 14pp.

Xerox copy of newspaper cutting from the Daily Express, Saturday evening August 18, 1923.

Article on an inspection of the Laccadive Islands by Mr. Ellis, I.C.S.


KIPLING SOCIETY

Small Collections Box 14

Lord Ferrier's speech to the Kipling Society at the Annual Luncheon at 6 Hanover Street, W.1., on Thursday 5 November, 1981. Transcribed from a recording made at the time; transcription corrected by the speaker.

9pp.


KNIGHT PAPERS

(Sir Henry Foley Knight, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., I.C.S. and Lady Knight)

Given by Lady Knight

Bombay, Madras India General 1911-1975

BOX I

  1. Biography and lists of posts held in India by Sir Henry Knight. 3pp.
  2. Letters in the form of a diary from Lady Knight to her family in England. March 1945 - August 1946. From her journey out on the S.S. Exeter to join her husband who was Acting Governor for Madras; some days in Ootacamund and on to Burma where her husband was Acting Governor for Burma. Mainly details of her social life and daily duties. 104pp.
  3. Diary notes of H.F.K. while touring on the S.S. Waipo on the Irrawaddy River, Burma. 28 July 1946 - 2 August 1946.
  4. Ten Airmail letters from Miss Ward in Surrey, who was looking after the Knight children, to Lady Knight in India and Burma.
  5. Folder entitled 'V.E. Day' containing newspaper cuttings and photographs mostly pertaining to these events. 28pp.
  6. Folder entitled 'Photographs and newspaper cuttings' all connected with the Indian food situation - articles dated from 1944-1975.
  7. Folder entitled 'Miscellaneous documents' - letters concerning H.F.K.'s tax guarantees while in Burma.
  8. Collection of I.C.S. menus and evening programmes 1928-1938.
  9. Collection of Warrants and Appointments 1916-1946.
  10. Folder entitled 'Drafts'
  11. Collection of short written items entitled 'Child Marriage in India - the peasants' point of view' 5pp.
  12. 'A tile loose' 3pp.
  13. 'Pandharpur' by Mrs. H.F. Knight 6pp. ? a brief description of different types of roofing seen in the Khandesh District of Bombay Presidency.
  14. 'Sholagur' 7-12 May 1930, 19pp. Description of the Marghi Fair and the religious rituals of the Varkaris pilgrims.
  15. 'Two-storied Third Class Railway Carriages', 2pp. Detailed account of the riots and how J.F.K. handled them - and their causes. (1929)
  16. A letter reporting the bad conduct of an office clerk n.d. 2pp. Account taken from The London Illustrated News. 37pp in total.
  17. Albums: In.the nature of commonplace books and containing: pen and ink and water colour sketches, photographs, newspaper cuttings etc.
    • 1911-1919 (small brown album)
    • Pen and ink sketches illustrating his work, village scenes and individuals. Thana, Nasik, Baglan, Bombay, Waziristan, Miramshah, Gharial, Aden. 33pp.
    • 1911-1916: Illustrated pen and ink letters home to his parents (45 sketches). Akola Hills, on tour, at work. 76 Photographs, 4 Postcards (see separate-list) 13 Watercolour sketches. 59pp.
    • 1912-1925: An illustrated account of a visit to Nanaghat,. 11, December 1913, with sketches and photographs. (A) Narrative, 6pp. Photographs, 7; sketches, 5. Collection of. 60 watercolour and 12 pen and ink sketches of his work, individuals and places. Photographs 22.
  18. 1906-1909; 1913-1930: Newspaper and magazine cuttings: University days at Cambridge; light verse by Knight; miscellaneous subjects and articles by Knight from India.
    • The Cam, February, March, April 1906.
    • The Tatler, November 1905; November 1906.
    • i>The Granta, April,. May, June, November 1907; February, June 1908.
    • The Motor Guide, February 1907.
    • Haileyburian, 1904, 1905.
    • The Morning Post, September 1909.
    • The Tunes of India, March 1913, July 1915, June 1917, April 1919, August 1922, April, September, October, November,. December 1925, March 1926, February, March 1927,. Mareh,. April, May, June, July, October, December 1928, December 1929, February, April, May, July 1930.
    • The Times of India Illustrated Weekly, 1919, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930.
    • Indian Motoring, Supplement to Times of India, 1920.
    • Production, January 1920.
    • Daily Telegraph, May 1928.
    • 57pp. Cuttings - 174.
    • Circular No. 438 issued from the Government of Bombay, Financial Department 25 June 1920. 4pp. (This is a loose item at the end of the album).
    • 1930-34; 1942-45; 1948; 1949; 1953-55.
  19. Newspaper and magazine cuttings.
    • (A) Copy of The Poona Star 12 May 1930. 4pp.
    • The Times of India Illustrated Weekly, August, September, October 1930; August 1931; February, May, June, July, December 1932;1 September 1933; June, July, October 1934; July 1942; April, June 1943; January 1944; June, October, November 1954; January 1955.
    • The Times of India, October 1932.; May 1934; March 1945; September 1954.
    • Western India Automobile Association Magazine, December 1932 and one other n.d.
    • Magazine of Ministry of National Insurance, 1948-49.
    • Farnham Herald 8 October 1954.
    • Evening News (India?) 22 March 1945.
    • Various other cuttings with n.d. 32pp. (22-32 unused) Cuttings - 68.
  20. Black Commonplace Book covering 1946 in Madras, Ootacamund and Delhi. A collection of photographs (listed separately), two red car pennants initialled J.S.K., telegrams, letters (2 are loose: (A) dated .6 April 1946 from Poona from Lady Knight's Ayah and envelope (B) dated 23 March 1946 from Lord Wavell to H.F.K.), travelling instructions, map of Madras, booklet on the Presidency of Madras, sketches, newspaper cuttings, official programmes and menus, official arrangements and guest room lists from the Viceroy's House, New Delhi, March 1946. 20pp. Items 93; photographs 50.
  21. Commonplace Book for June 1946, Burma.
  22. Pennant for Her Excellency's car in. Burma 1946.
  23. Newspaper cuttings, photographs, telegrams, official. invitations, etc. 10pp. 49 items; 10 photographs (see separate list).
  24. Commonplace Book June-July 1946, Burma. 10pp. 34 items; 28 photographs (see separate list). Covers H.F.K.'s tour to Mandalay from Rangoon, stopping at Amarapura, Saggaing, Myingyan, Pakoku, Pagan, Yenangyaung, Minbu, Thayetmyo.
  25. Newspaper cuttings from The Times of Burma with photographs showing the destruction of Rangoon.
  26. Commonplace Book July/August 1946. Burma and Assam. Last part of tour, Prome in Burma. 10pp (7 - 10 not used) 7 photographs.
  27. Newspaper cuttings and other items such as letters, i.e. from Clement Attlee 8 August 1946 and 15 July 1946; telegrams etc. 13.

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