1. 'How krah (forced labour) was abolished in Kedah' by Sir George Maxwell (2 copies, 4 sheets).

2. Correspondence between Hugh Bryson and Julian Dudley Hall on the evacuation of the Sultan of Kedah, Abdul Hamid Halim Shah, to Kulim during the Japanese invasion of Dec. 1941 (5 sheets).

Correspondence between Hugh Bryson and James de Vere Allen on the research and publication of the latter’s book, ‘The Malayan Union’, and on Allen’s research for an article on Terengganu during the early twentieth century. Several letters refer to Sir Edward Gent and the Malayan Emergency (21 sheets).

Notes by Hugh Bryson on the resistance to paying land taxes and other grievances in Terengganu which led to violent confrontation with the government in May 1928. The file includes comments upon Bryson's notes by the Malayan civil servant W.F.N. Churchill (10 sheets).

Two annotated drafts of an article by Hugh Bryson describing how the tribute of golden and silver trees and flowers was sent from the Sultan of Kedah to King Edward VII in 1909, following the transfer of the suzerainty of Kedah from Siam to Britain. There is also a letter from Bryson to the Royal Archives at Windsor, enquiring about their location (7 sheets).