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Large letter book B – C.L. Showers:

(14 miscellaneous cuttings, unconnected with India, lie between the first five sheets.)

• B1. Letter from Secretary to Government of India, to Captain C.L. Showers and Bikaneer Horse about capture of Jawahir Singh, and the cooperation of the Maharajah of Bikaneer, 20 August 1847.
• B2. Report of further captures, and consequences to health, 24 November 1847.
• B3. Copy of Showers’ report on the capture (B1) to the A.G.G. Rajpootana, 11 August 1847.
• B4. Letter about capture of the last of the chiefs of the Seekur Baraoteas, from A.G.G. Rajpootana to Lt. C.S. Showers, 24 January 1848.
• B5. Laudatory poems in vernacular addressed to Captain Showers with translations, after capture of Neemuch.
• B6. Copy of Mountstuart Elphinstone’s minute on Captain Sutherland’s plan for educating a native civil service. 1824.
• B7. Part of MS letter to Sir John Strachey, written from Peshawar, 9 June 1879 about proposed reduction in expenditure.
• B8. Copies of letter from C.J. Lyall as Under Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Agriculture, 26 July 1875, together with reports, on the quality of cotton Colonel Showers had grown.
• B9. Pencil notes on article on night sentry duty.
• B10. Copy of letter to Lord Dufferin.
• B11. Printed report on Gwalior affairs for 1868 from Colonel Showers, 20 January 1869. 8 pp. including appendix. Another copy differently printed, no appendix.
• B12. Newspaper cuttings: The Mofussilite, Friday 27 March – about Major Showers’ pamphlet ‘The cotton question’; The Himalaya Chronicle, 14 August 1875 on indigenous cotton (also an article on natives in the Civil Service); The Mussoorie Season, 25 October 1873 on inspecting Colonel Showers’ cotton fields.
• B13. Two letters acknowledging pamphlet on the Persian question, 1885.
• B14. Lord Rosebery’s reply to request to put General Showers’ son’s name on list of candidates for consular employment.
• B15. Another copy of report on Gwalior, 1869.
• B16. Memorial to Viceroy Lord Ripon from members of Manchester Chamber of Commerce on compensation for Maj. Gen. Showers’ expenses in cotton experiments.
• B17. Notes for a lecture or article.
• B18. Cutting, n.d. about Kaffars (sic).
• B19. Notes for article or report on an Afghan village.
• B20. Long MS article on Kaffiristan and the Kaffirs by A. Gardner, 20 October 1869. 12 pp.
• B21. Letter from R. Cobden to Colonel Showers about taking his case to Parliament, 28 February 1865.
• B22. MS article on Lord Lytton’s Government and its apologists, 27 March – 21pp.
• B23. Letter from W.R. Masarron, 6 August 1868.
• B24. Two extracts about Sir George Lawrence. 8 pp. plus 1 p.
• B25. Letter about Colonel Malleson’s book, 24 August 1881.
• B26. Acknowledgement from War Office, 23 December 1880.
• B27. Appointment as Major General, 20 September 1877.
• B28. Copy of Colonel Showers’ paper to the British Association on the Meenahs of Central India, 19 Sept 1864. 7pp.
• B29. TS copies of correspondence with Department of Agriculture Dehra Doon, 1875, about indigenous cotton seed.
• B30. TS copies of further correspondence about cotton seed with A.O. Hume, 5 June 1875, and others.
• B31. TS copy of article (nothing to do with India).
• B32. ‘Hints for the conduct of business in a political residency under the Indian Foreign Office’, by Major General C.L. Showers, 15 June 1882. TS. 6 pp.
• B33. Letter from H. Thompson about General Showers’ son, 1885.
• B34. TS copy of General Showers’ letter to the Daily Chronicle on the Kandahar question, 2 March 1881, plus extract of editorial response.
• B35. MS of letter to The Times.
• B36. MS copies of extracts from various boundary settlements and the quashing of a proceeding, 1878.
• B37. Copy of letter and associated correspondence to the Under Secretary of State for India, 15 December 1883, about the revolt of the Thakoors against the Maharajah of Bikaneer.
• B38. MS memorandum on the war with Persia by C.L. Showers, 19 November 1856. 6 pp.
• B39. MS ‘Substance of a Persian letter from an eyewitness of the events at Delhi on the 11th and 12th instant May, on the siezure of the city by mutineers of the native army – addressed to and communicated through the Vakeel of the Ulweer (sic) State dated 12 May 1857 and translated by C.L. Showers.’
• B40. Verses from Faust.
• B41(a) and (b). Second MS copy of two items in A17.
• B42. Printed memorandum by Colonel Showers, Peshawar, 10 May 1870 on suggestions for improvement of meat consumed by the troops in Peshawar.
• B43. Letter from A.W. Hume to General Showers about his son’s cadetship, 23 October 1880.
• B44. Letter of congratulation, 17 January 1868 on Showers’ appointment to Gwalior.
• B45. Copy of letter from Archbishop Whateley to a friend on the subject of mesmerism, 1844.
• B46. Quotation.
• B47. Second copy of B42.
• B48(a) and (b). Two copies of a printed memorandum: ‘Cholera in connection with barracks by Colonel C.L. Showers. Peshawar, April 1870.
• B49. MS draft of a letter to the Daily News entitled ‘Mr Slagg M.P., Parliament and the Government of India’. 17 March – 8 pp.
• B50. Printed proof-sheet of letter to The Times from Major General C.L. Showers on the reduction of the native armies of India. Lahore, 20 March –
• B51. MS, no signature nor date, written from Junior United Service Club about increase in crime.
• B52. Printed paper: ‘Army organization commission’, by Major General C.L. Showers. 4 August 1879. 13 pp. Appendix: ‘Memorandum on the maintenance of the lines of communication of the British columns in the field, forming the army of Afghanistan.’ Lahore, 4 December 1878. 3 pp.
• B53. MS copy of letter of instructions on sowing and cultivating cotton. Pencil initial signatures of Showers.
• B54. Cutting from The Times, 18 June 1883 on ‘The Berlin congress: a retrospect’.
• B55. Printed proclamation in -Urdu and English issued by the Government and H.H. the Maharajah Jyajee Rao Scindia, Gwalior, 9 September 1868, on relief measures for famine.
• B56. Page from The Statesman 16 August 1877 – reference to Colonel Showers’ pamphlet on cotton in the leader.
• B57. Cutting from The Times 7 October 1885, about seabirds.
• B58. Cutting 4 May 1890, relating to dual ownership of land in India.
• B59. Letter from J. Crawford to Colonel Showers about his paper on the Meenahs, 29 July 1864.