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Bequeathed by Dr (Thomas George) Percival Spear. Lecturer, St Stephen’s College, Delhi 1924-40; various posts in Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India 1940-45; Bursar, Selwyn College, Cambridge 1945-70; Lecturer in History, Cambridge University 1963-69.
- Leaflet listing John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellows and their study proposals, 1980, and a proposal by Kenneth W. Jones on socio-religious movements in 19th and 20th century British India.
- Paper by Kenneth W. Jones – ‘Anxiety and Identity: the Negative Component of Hindu Consciousness’.
- Paper by Margaret Spear – ‘Personal Impressions of Delhi, India – 1933-1939’.
- Part of a paper, author unknown, pages 45-81, entitled ‘Mansion’, the appendix of which lists 28 mansions and 7 mosques in Shahjahanabad in 1739 (missing page, for page 63 lists 8 mosques constructed 1639-1739).
- Paper, in 4 parts, by “Iconoclastes” ‘on The Princes and Territorial Chiefs of India’, the third part of which is dated “Cheltenham, 1853”. 53pp.
- Paper by Rajeev Dhavan – ‘The Legal Rishis of New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India’
- ‘Evelyn Ashdown’s Shipwreck, 1943 – (15 Days in an Open Boat)’
- Memoirs by Margaret Spear(?) in 11 chapters:-
- ch.1 – Jamaica; childhood memories (incomplete)
- ch.2 – Return to England, 1910 (2 copies)
- ch.3 – Suffolk (2 copies)
- ch.4 – Delhi, pt.1 (2 copies)
- ch.5 – Delhi (contd.)
- ch.6 – My life in the “Hills”
- ch.7 – The Hindustan Tibet Road (2 copies)
- ch.8 – Egypt, Palestine and Plymouth
- ch.9 – English Interlude (typescript and manuscript versions)
- ch.10 – Jamaica Revisited, [from California] 1958 (2 copies)
- ch.11 – Return to India, 1965
- Pages 5-7 of un-named, un-titled paper.
- 400ft reel of 16mm silent B&W ciné film of China(?) including religious ceremonies, wrestling etc.