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Bangalore

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

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From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Bangalore, 25 Mar. 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/92
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Cannot understand President Wilson's break with Germany; Ted Hoare is very successful; Bangalore and his companions there; doubts if he will be able to return to Mesopotamia soon, and fulfil his desire to see Baghdad

Dates: 25 Mar. 1917
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Bangalore, 6 Apr. 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/93
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Letters are taking about six weeks to reach him; few kindred spirits in Bangalore; recognised Alan Murray of CUMC in the club; had to conduct an impromptu church parade; is learning Hindustani; quotes from Henry James's The Ambassadors

Dates: 6 Apr. 1917
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Bangalore, 13 Apr. 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/94
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Colleagues who prefer Bach, Beethoven, Brahms - and Sir Arthur Sullivan - to modern music; the battle cry of the Baluchis compared to Forty Years On

Dates: 13 Apr. 1917
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Bangalore, 26 Apr. 1917-1 May 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/95
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Alan Murray is now a captain in the Seaforth Highlanders, but keeps up his composition; the Connaught Rangers' mess; plans for journey with Seawright to Canonoor; 'Romance's marriage is very bitter'

Dates: 26 Apr. 1917-1 May 1917
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Bangalore, 12 June 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/96
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His younger brother killed in Salonika; congratulates [C Armstrong] Gibbs on his quartet; Matthews has brought back music from a trip to Bombay

Dates: 12 June 1917
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Measurement of the Bangalore baseline, 1800 - 1801

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/114
Scope and Contents An account by Brigade Major William Lambton of the measurement of a base line near Bangalore, together with the particulars of a geographical survey around Mysore. The book is divided into two parts. The first section is comprised of an account of the measurement of the base line near Bangalore and descriptions of the instruments used to determine the latitude and meridian lines for taking the horizontal angles. The second part is an account of the principal operation of the survey, with an...
Dates: 1800 - 1801
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).