News cutting of Stark's report of commemorating Remembrance Day while visiting a naval flagship, probably during his time as acting Distinct Officer of Kelang in late 1927. Published in the 'Straits Times', 18 Nov. 1927.

127 mm x 81 mm. A postcard view (original photograph) showing the obelisk at Kota Bahru [i.e. Baharu].

Two articles by Coe discussing his experience with the volunteer movement: 'The Malay States Volunteer Rifles 1911-15', 'The Volunteer' (1937) and 'Some personal recollections of Chinese New Year, 1912', 'Malayan Police Magazine', Mar. 1937, along with a letter to Hugh Bryson (5 sheets).

Extracts from the diaries and letters of Miss Ella Christie describing her travels to the Malay Archipelago made by Hugh Bryson:

1. 'Malaya in 1904' (17 sheets; 2 copies).

2. 'Kuching in 1904' (6 sheets; 2 copies). The file also contains an offprint from its publication in the 'Sarawak Museum Journal', 10 (1961), 43-49.

A personal memoir of life in Malaysia from the 1890s to the late 1940s, including descriptions of social life and living conditions, and developments in economics, transportation, communications and government.

A brief description of Long's experiences in the cultivation of rubber, printed in 'Malaya', July 1961, 26-27. The file also includes typescript copies of two articles by Long: 'Rubber tree selection: thinning-out in mature areas', 'The Planter', Sept. 1920 and 'Rubber tree selection: new clearing and future plantings', 'The Planter', Nov. 1920.

The volume contains an exquisitely illuminated welcome address to H.R.H. the Princess of Wales presented by the women of Bombay. It features fourteen full-page watercolours of Indian women by the artist Manchershaw Fakirjee Pithawalla (1872-1937). At the front of the volume is the signature of H.M. Queen Mary.

279 x 211 mm. Showing four men seated in a row on the ground in front of a bungalow, with piles of cinnamon branches beside them from which they are stripping the bark.

279 x 212 mm. Showing a row of workers seated on a verandah splitting coconuts, with a pile of kernels in the wooden trough in front of them.

113 x 90 mm. Showing the Golden Blowpipe Express drawn by the locomotive Coronation, carrying the High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer from Kuala Lipis in Pahang to Kota Bharu [i.e. Baharu] in Kelantan on the first journey on the line since 1941, when the track was destroyed.

41 pages.

1 Translation of a letter from the son of the Rajah of Quedah to the Hon. Robert Fullerton, Governor of Prince of Wales Island
2 Map of the Siamese States between Bankok and Quedah
3 Remarks on Siam, etc.

Single sheet of paper, 320 x 400 mm.

These records relate to various associations formed in Australia, India, Ceylon and South Africa by residents of Malaya displaced by the war. They provided information and assistance to evacuees, civilian internees, and prisoners of war.

Rules of the organisations, lists of members, minutes of meetings, memoranda, circulars, indemnity records and related correspondence (343 sheets).

Copy of the report which was published in 1950 along with submissions and correspondence regarding it from former Inspector Generals of Police, H. Fairburn, R. Onraet, C.I. Sansom, A.H. Dickinson and E. Bagot, Deputy Commissioner B.M.B. O’Connell, Chief Police Officer L.F. Knight, Secretary of State for the Colonies A. Creech Jones, Lord Milverton, Sir Ibrahim, Sultan of Johore, Sir Abu Bakar, Sultan of Pahang, A.S. Haynes and Shenton Thomas.

This is a detailed memoir by Gutteridge describing his wartime experience. It is divided into three sections, covering his work as a Customs Officer, his service in the M.R.N.V.R. on a ship carrying evacuees to Batavia, and his capture and confinement aboard a ship in Singapore Harbour before being transferred to Changi Prisoner of War Camp (20 sheets).

The report includes a synopsis and an appendix on proposed draft legislation for child actors.

24 pages

These records relate to various associations formed in Australia, India, Ceylon and South Africa by residents of Malaya displaced by the war. They provided information and assistance to evacuees, civilian internees, and prisoners of war.

Rules of the organisations, lists of members, minutes of meetings, memoranda, circulars, indemnity records and related correspondence (343 sheets).

Manuscript and typescript reports by Wheeler and others on Aden routes, with a sketch map of the area. The papers include Wheeler's report on the best road from Aden to Dthala for a force accompanied by artillery on wheels, with a covering letter to D.A.A.G., Aden, 13 November 1902, 22 pages. The other items include a diary and itinerary of Route Sanah to Dthala by the Wadi Tiban, Wadi Tabaghain and Sueda, 1-10 May 1905, 14 pages, and similar reports.

A printed book containing woodburytypes, each 195 x 240 mm, by various photographers. The volume is part of a projected series of portraits with biographical articles.