Papers of Sir Edward Charles Benthall. Governor, Imperial Bank of India 1928-30; Member, Bengal Legislative Assembly 1934-35; Governor-General’s Executive Council, War Transport and Railways 1942-46. Also memoir: Reminiscences. 6pp.
36 Boxes, 1925-56.

Box 1 – Business correspondence, Nov. 1928-Jan. 1929.

Box 2 – Business and political correspondence, Dec. 1931-July 1932; notes on meetings with Gandhi, 1931; Round Table Conference notes.

Box 3 – Political commentary, summer 1933; Round Table Conference; notes and correspondence: Bengal Chamber of Commerce.

Box 4 – Political and business correspondence, summer 1933.

Box 5 – Correspondence, summer 1933, from the UK. Includes comments on financial and business proposals for India; discussion of creation of a Reserve Bank of India.

Box 6 – Busines and political correspondence while in the UK, summer 1935. Includes a file marked ‘Iron and Steel’ about a merger with Tata Steel; discussion of the future of the Legislative Assembly.

Box 7 – File marked ‘Political File, 1935’.

Box 8 – ECB’s diaries for the years 1929-1940.

Box 9 – Diaries, 1942-1946; notes on the future of the Viceroy’s Council; Business correspondence.

Box 10 – File marked ‘General file while on leave in 1937’; Business and personal correspondence.

Box 11 – Political correspondence while in the UK, 1937; business and political affairs in India; Bengal Chamber of Commerce; political situation in Bengal.

Box 12 – File marked ‘General file while on leave in 1937’, July-Dec.; discussions of coal mines, jute mills, Tata Steel.

Box 13 – File marked ‘Political file while on leave in 1937’; Insurance Bill; discussions of Indian leadership.

Box 14 – General correspondence, mostly business related; Strikes in jute mills; electricity supply in Calcutta.

Box 15 – Business and political correspondence while at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, 1941.

Box 16 – Business and political correspondence while at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, 1941; general correspondence.

Box 17 – Business and political correspondence while at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Apr. 1941-May 1942.

Box 18 – General correspondence while at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Jan.-May 1942.

Box 19 – Political situation 1939-1944; Congress political compaign; correspondence with Sir John Herbert, Lord Linlithgow and Auchinleck; notes on Gandhi.

Box 20 – Papers relating to the formation of a ‘State Bank’.

Box 21 – Collection of political cartoons, 1942-1946; articles on the business community, 1940s.

Box 22 – Papers marked ‘Political situation in India’; short stories and articles.

Box 23 – News cuttings 1943-1946; letters about his time as War Minister for Transport.

Box 24 – Papers relating to the Indian Railways.

Box 25 – Journal offprints; reports and agendas of the Bengall Chanber of Commerce.

Box 26 – Articles and documents relating to ECB’s career in India and the State Bank; papers relating to the ‘Cabinet Mission’, 1946.

Box 27 – MS copy of an autobiography of Geoffrey Garratt, 1888-1942.

Box 28 – Benthall family correspondence; letters of Edward Benthall, 1827; family letters of Clement Benthall, 1858-1873 and letters related to his death in 1879.

Box 29 – Correspondence of and about Edward and Clementina Benthall, Calcutta 1833-1875, including accounts of 1857 uprising.

Box 30 – Family letters of Edward benthall, 1827-1847.

Box 31 – Family letters of Edward and Clementina Benthall, 1826-1852; four letters form Annie Benthall, from Cape Town, 1890s.

Box 32 – Family letters of Edward and Clementina Benthall; diaries of Clementina Benthall, 1841-1846.

Box 33 – Diaries of Clementina Benthall 1846-1853.

Box 34 – Diaries of Clementina Benthall 1841-1849.

Box 35 – Diaries of Clementina Benthall 1841-1849.

Box 36 – Will and estate documents of Lord Cable, 1920s.