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Memoirs of a career in the Indian Civil Service, first written in 1971, covering Brokenshaw's service as Engineer-in-Chief and Postmaster General in the Posts and Telegraphs Department. This copy was prepared from a typescript in the possession of Brokenshaw's eldest son, Frank (known as 'Brock'). Brokenshaw's great-niece, Veronica Moore, transcribed the original typescript and added an introduction and appendix to the main text in 2018. 300 pages, including covers and illustrations.

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57pp., mostly manuscript rough draft in pencil covering Cantrell's time in Ceylon [Sri Lanka] as a child and then in Malaya [Malaysia] and Samoa as a planter between 1908 and 1914. The section on Malaya includes transcribed typescript notes prepared by Hugh Bryson. Together with correspondence between the donor, the RCS Librarian and Hugh Bryson.

Scope and Contents Copy of the first edition of Memoirs of William Paley, interleaved and annotated in pen and pencil with supplementary information from several sources, including 'F' [William Frend], 'Quarterly Review' and 'Lambert'. Loose letters and papers: copy letters, Meadley to Earl Grey, and reply, 1818, on toleration for Roman Catholics and Dissenters; Francis Huish to Trevilian, c.1808; S. Hodgson to Meadley, 1809; J.K. Lewis to Miss Meadley, undated, used by Meadley for drafts of his memoir; and...

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49 page MS Word-processed document, with scanned family documents interspersed. No index or contents list. The memoir focuses on the family background of Sidney Fazan, his arrival and early life in Kenya, service during the Second World War, Gillian's childhood in Kenya and reflections on the Mau Mau period, covering the period up to 1964 when the family returned to Britain.

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This is a work of sixteen chapters dealing largely with Leake's career as an agricultural botanist and covering both world wars.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers of David Thomas cover the years 1956-1979. They include correspondence files, draft articles for publication, administrative papers, and a selection of digitised slides. The administrative papers date from Thomas’s time as Chairman of the RGO section of SRC branch of IPCS. They give an important insight into RGO staff concerns about the future of the organisation and of British Astronomy in general. Particularly significant are the files on the separation of the posts of...

Scope and Contents Upstream: Seventy Years on the Thames and the Plate Memoirs of Sir Eugen Millington-Drake Edited by Jill Quaife Volume 1: 1889-1915Comprising a memoir edited by Millington-Drake’s Personal Assistant Jill Quaife, using Millington-Drake’s diaries, articles published in the Macnaghten Old Boy Circulars [a publication for students who attended Eton when Hugh Vibart Macnaghten was a housemaster from 1898 to 1902], and other passages written by his sister, Jessy. The record was...

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Unpublished typescript memoirs of a Colonial Office and Commonwealth Relations Office official, covering his career from 1911 to 1967. With a forward by Sir Harry Batterbee. One of 100 duplicated copies prepared for presentation. 115pp.

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Typescript autobiographical memoir 'The ivory tower', with a prefatory notice by Mena Lethbridge in which the work is described as 'a picture of Cambridge Academic life between the two World Wars'.