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Vernede Papers: Box 5

A.H. Vernède ICS and R.V. Vernède ICS

Given by R.V. Vernède

Bengal, Bihar and Orissa 1896 -1920, U.P. 1928-1947

Arthur Henry Vernède arrived in India in 1896 to take up his first appointment in Bengal where he served until 1912 when he was transferred to Bihar and Orissa. He retired from India in 1920. A summary of his postings and home leaves during that career is included in Box 1, Folder 1

Raymond Veveysan Vernède, son of A.H. Vernède, arrived in India to take up his appointment in the U.P. where he spent his entire service. 1928-1947.

  1. Copies of Onlooker Nov., Dec. 1939; Jan. Feb. May June July Sept. 1940; Jan. 1941.
  2. Copies of Times of India Annual for 1927, 1928, 1932, 1933, 1936.
  3. India’s Pictorial Magazine for Jan. 20 1928
  4. India Christmas Number, 1930; Dec. 1935
  5. The Madras Mail Annual one copy, undated

Vernede Papers: Box 4

A.H. Vernède ICS and R.V. Vernède ICS

Given by R.V. Vernède

Bengal, Bihar and Orissa 1896 -1920, U.P. 1928-1947

Arthur Henry Vernède arrived in India in 1896 to take up his first appointment in Bengal where he served until 1912 when he was transferred to Bihar and Orissa. He retired from India in 1920. A summary of his postings and home leaves during that career is included in Box 1, Folder 1

Raymond Veveysan Vernède, son of A.H. Vernède, arrived in India to take up his appointment in the U.P. where he spent his entire service. 1928-1947.

  1. Scrap folder of newspaper cuttings about social events in the U.P. 1921-1934; newspaper article of Dec. 15, 1933 entitled ‘A Warning to Muslims – A Muslim Plea for Communal Peace, Social Service and Conversions’. Newspaper article ‘Hill Stations Past and Present’. No date. Newspaper article of 1934, ‘A Middle Aged Memsahib’. Invitations to Govt. House, etc. kept by Miss Nancy Kendall, later Mrs. R.V. Vernède.(73pp)
  2. Letters: From ‘Kathleen’ in Kashmir to her mother and her sister ‘Gracie’ on the plains. No date, but probably about 1910. Kathleen Brookes was a girlhood friend of Mrs. R.V. Vernede’s mother. Scrap folder: Newspaper cuttings, snapshots and photographs listed below. (74 – 219 and 233 – 235pp; 14 photos held separately in Box 51)
  3. Three elephants carrying passengers across river
  4. Kneeling elephant with four riders
  5. Three elephants carrying shooting party
  6. Two elephants with passengers
  7. An elephant walking through forest carrying four passengers
  8. Three elephants with passengers
  9. Boat with passengers being poled across river
  10. An official’s bungalow and grounds. Four servants standing under palm trees
  11. Three Englishwomen, two Englishmen sitting on verandah, probably of a club
  12. Englishwoman with a dog
  13. Secretariat building. Group of English and Indian people standing beside it.
  14. S.S. ‘Oceani” Oct. 1909
  15. Lake at Naini Tal with sailing boats. Photograph by ‘Mistery’ Naini Tal.
  16. Lake at Naini Tal by ‘Mistery’, Naini Tal.

Vernede Papers: Box 3

A.H. Vernède ICS and R.V. Vernède ICS

Given by R.V. Vernède

Bengal, Bihar and Orissa 1896 -1920, U.P. 1928-1947

Arthur Henry Vernède arrived in India in 1896 to take up his first appointment in Bengal where he served until 1912 when he was transferred to Bihar and Orissa. He retired from India in 1920. A summary of his postings and home leaves during that career is included in Box 1, Folder 1

Raymond Veveysan Vernède, son of A.H. Vernède, arrived in India to take up his appointment in the U.P. where he spent his entire service. 1928-1947.

  1. Letters from Mrs. Nancy Vernède to her mother Lady Kendall, widow of Sir Charles Kendall, ICS, Judge of Allahabad High Court, in England. Those of 1937-1939 written from Benares and Lucknow. Those of 1941-1946 written from Garhwal. One of 1936 and one of 1938 from R.V. Vernède to Lady Kendall. The letters are about personal and domestic matters. 176 pages.
  2. A Short History of All Saints’ Cathedral, Allahabad by the Rev. A.G. Davies-Leigh M.A. 1929.
  3. Womens’ War Work in the U.P. 1939-1945.
  4. Victory Record of the War Effort of Garhwal District 1939-1945

Vernede Papers: Box 2

A.H. Vernède ICS and R.V. Vernède ICS

Given by R.V. Vernède

Bengal, Bihar and Orissa 1896 -1920, U.P. 1928 -1947
Arthur Henry Vernède arrived in India in 1896 to take up his first appointment in Bengal where he served until 1912 when he was transferred to Bihar and Orissa. He retired from India in 1920. (A summary of his postings and home leaves during that career is included in Box 1, Folder 1

Raymond Veveysan Vernède, son of A.H. Vernède, arrived in India to take up his appointment in the U.P. where he spent his entire service. 1928-1947.

  1. Diaries kept by A.H. Vernède 1898-1904; 1906-1908; 1910-1920. Entries are largely about his daily routine at work and in the home.

Vernede Papers: Box 1

A.H. Vernède ICS and R.V. Vernède ICS

Given by R.V. Vernède
Bengal, Bihar and Orissa 1896 -1920, U.P. 1928-1947

Arthur Henry Vernède arrived in India in 1896 to take up his first appointment in Bengal where he served until 1912 when he was transferred to Bihar and Orissa. He retired from India in 1920. A summary of his postings and home leaves during that career is included in Box 1, Folder 1

Raymond Veveysan Vernède, son of A.H. Vernède, arrived in India to take up his appointment in the U.P. where he spent his entire service. 1928-1947.<

Folders 1 & 2 – Letters: From A. H. Vernède to his wife Katherine, 1906 – 1920. The first were written from their station in Bengal while she was in the hills. The second, beginning in 1912, were written from Bihar and Orissa while she was in England with the children, or in the hills. The letters are mainly of a domestic and personal nature and contain a number of remarks about other members of the station. The earlier ones contain a few references to his work as a magistrate. The letters of 1913 contain several references to the wiliness and intriguing disposition of Indian advocates and their boycott of himself. The letter of 1.4.1913 mentions an anarchist attempt at insurrection. The letter of 2.7.1913 refers to the newspaper ‘Amrita Bazaar Patrika’.

Folder 3 – Letters: To A.H. Vernède from his wife Katherine, 1907, 1908, others undated. Domestic and personal.

Folder 4 – Miscellaneous letters: Four from Harold Braidwood to A. H. Vernède 1942 – 1945, written in England. One from A.H. Vernède to his mother 17.11.1903. Five fragments of letters from A.H. Vernède to his wife. No date. (847pp.)