Coloured oilette postcards of Malaya by Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd. marked 'Series II', but not separately numbered.

151 x 205 mm. The Federation of Malaya Constitutional Conference opens at Lancaster House, London: group photograph of delegates.

152 x 205 mm. Seated at the conference table are left to right – Dato Abdul Razak, Dr. Ismail, Col. H.S. Lee, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Dato Panglima Bukit Gantang, Enche Abdul Aziz, Dato Mohamed Seth, and Dato Nik Ahmed Kamil.

152 x 204 mm. Left to right at the Conference table are Tunku Abdul Rahman, the Chief Minister representing the Federal Ministers and Dato Panglima Bukit Gantang, Tuan Haji Abdul Wahab representing the Rulers.

154 x 151 mm. The Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Rt. Hon. A. Lennox-Boyd, M.P. , (left) welcomes Tenku Abdul Rahman, Malaya’s Chief Minister, to the opening session of the Federation of Malaya constitutional Conference at Lancaster House.

104 x 148 mm. Showing an assortment of daggers, swords and spears laid out on a board.

152 x 205 mm. Mr. A. Lennox-Boyd, (left) the British Colonial Secretary, and Tunku Abdul Rahman, Chief Minister of Malaya, shake hands after signing the Constitutional Report at Lancaster House.

H.E Sir Shenton Thomas and Mrs Newbould at the Terengganu Stall.

133 x 85 mm. Showing two fishermen in a small, square-rigged boat, returning to shore after a nights work.

275 x 207 mm.

Draft of an article on the organisation and operation of the Malayan Home Guard during the Emergency, and correspondence regarding its publication (27 sheets).

Correspondence relating to the response of the Malayan police to racial and religious riots in Singapore. The riots were inspired by a court ruling in the custody battle over Maria Hertogh, which was won by her Dutch birth parents over her Muslim Malay adoptive parents, who had educated her as a Muslim (16 sheets).

Draft and published article which appeared in 'Malaya', June 1953, 333-34, discussing the career of Sir Peter Benson (1816-1893), first Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements (7 sheets).

Contains miscellaneous prints, some by G.R. Lambert and Co., taken from the 1890s. Nos 4 - 15 relate to the Gunong Pondok Pass construction in 1902, 18-20 to the Emergency circa 1949 - 1953 and 21 is a group photograph of the Malayan Railway Board 1952.

Material related to concern for the welfare of Malayan students in Great Britain, and their exposure to Communist influences, expressed by the Association of British Malaya. The file includes minutes of a meeting at the Colonial Office on 27 June 1950, the draft of a paragraph for insertion in the April 1950 edition of ‘British Malaya’, and associated correspondence (12 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).

Correspondence between the BAM and the Colonial Office concerning the calculation and payment of claims for compensation under the Malayan War Damage Commission. Correspondents include Norman Rowlstone Jarrett and Lord Milverton of the RCS and Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones (60 sheets).

Copy of a report written by Thomas outlining pre-war social and economic conditions in Malaya; the organisation of wartime command and civil defence; the duties of civil government; local forces assisting in defence; medical services; finance and the production of tin and rubber; the supply, distribution and pricing of food; and the behaviour of the Malay, Indian and Chinese populations (32 sheets).

Draft of an article based upon diaries and official reports, marked 'My personal copy' (39 sheets).