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Plants growing beside the road.

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Plants growing beside the road.

Scope and Contents 205 x 152 mm. A group photograph of three British adminstrators with their Chinese, Malay and Indian staff gathered round them. The three main figures in the group are: Frederick Joseph WELD (1870-); Malayan Civil Service 1888-1918; acting British Resident , Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan 1903-1905; Ernest Barton MAUNDRELL (1880-1916); Malayan Civil Service 1903-1916. Maundrell was killed by a Sikh policeman while serving as acting Resident, Brunei; Ernest Charteris Holford WOLFF...

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A series of 22 letters written by Hay describing his working and social life, and material relating to Hay's conditions of employment. The file also includes correspondence with D.H. Simpson regarding the donation of the papers to the RCS.

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129 x 79 mm. Showing Malays resettled at Poom listening to a wireless in the temporary school buildings.

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Glass and film negatives. The label lists at least four other places, which are illegible. Numbers 521-524 and 526 have camera specifications written in pencil underneath the captions.

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101 x 61 mm. Group photograph of a young Malayan Brownie troop.

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A general view of the Camp Port Dickson.

Scope and Contents 115 x 87 mm. Showing the visiting British delegation which visited Malaya in mid-1950 to discuss the Emergency, seated round a table with various Malayan officials. Identified in the print are: Datu ABDUL MALEK, Chief Minister, Negri Sembilan; Hugh Patterson, British Adviser; John Noel Douglas HARRISON (1911-), Chief Police Officer; Rt. Hon. James GRIFFITHS (1890-1975), Secretary of State for the Colonies 1950-1951; Sir Henry Lovell Goldsworthy GURNEY (1898-1951), High Commissioner,...

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Reminiscences of some of Walter Stark's work in the Malayan Civil Service as an acting District Officer.

Scope and Contents 197 x 148 mm. Showing Tuanku Abdul Rahman and his consort Tunku Ampuan Kursiah seated on the decorated dais in the audience hall for the Menghadap. The triennal menghadap was inaugurated at Sri Menanti in 1901 and on these occasions the ruling chiefs paid homage to the Yang di-Pertuan Besar in front of members of the royal family and government officials. Sheppard (1965) states that Abdul Rahman held his first menghadap in 1937, but the presence of Caldecott and London in the following...

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A view from the garden looking up towards the verandahed bungalow.

Scope and Contents 1. Correspondence and notes relating to nationalisation legislation between the ruler of Negeri Sembilan, Tuanku Abdul Rahman, and Hugh Bryson (6 sheets).2. Correspondence between Hugh Bryson and M.C. ff Sheppard on the subject of the state succession (5 sheets).3. Correspondence and notes exchanged between Harry Miller and Hugh Bryson. Bryson assisted Miller in researching a biography of the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, Tuanku Abdul Rahman, by contacting Sir...

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Copies of the orders of the day, and minutes of meetings. Major subjects include constitutional matters, finance, defence, education, legal affairs, elections, land policy, and the granting of licenses for agriculture, commerce and industry (250 sheets).

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Contains 84 prints and 38 negatives by various photographers. There are 118 different pictures; 1-37, 71-117 are prints, with negatives of 34-37; 38-70, including 49a, are from the personal collection of Hugh Patterson Bryson presented to the RCS towards the end of his life, and relate to his post-war work as British Adviser, Negri Sembilan, from which he retired in 1951.

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A view, framed in the foreground by a silhouetted tree, looking out to sea at sunset.

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139 x 106 mm. A seated group portrait, taken outside the Palace (Sri Menanti) of the Negri Sembilan State Council of 1931. The figures in the group are: Tuanku Besar BURHANUDDIN; Head of royal household and brother of Tuanku Muhammed; James William SIMMONS; British Resident; Tuanku MUHAMMED; Dato' Klana MAAMOR; of Sungei Ujong; Dato' ABDULLAH; of Jelebu; Dato' KAMAT; of Johol; Dato' WONG YICK TONG; Dato' ABDULLAH of Rembau; Hugh Patterson BRYSON; Clerk of Council.

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A view looking down onto the Port Dickson administrative buildings, with the sea visible in the background.

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Showing A. V. Harvey and A. T. Lennox-Boyd with soldiers on Bukit Putus. They appear to be trying on military equipment.

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76 x 50 mm. A view looking down on the winding road which follows the path of the cliffs at the left. With a motor car on the road in the foreground.

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Views of trees. The caption continues but is largely illegible.

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Views of trees. The caption continues but is largely illegible.

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Copies of four documents (in Malay) with correspondence regarding their acquisition and the proposed copying of other papers:

1. 'History of the dignity of Rantau Wari di Ayer' (1 sheet)

2. 'Installation of Yam Tuan Muhammad' (4 sheets)

3. 'Installation of Tuanku Ampuan' (4 sheets)

4. 'The changing of the title Yang di-Pertuan to Sultan' (4 sheets).

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There are four main sets of photographs: jungle-dwelling Sakai men, a beach at Port Dickson, the Buckleys' bungalow at Swettenham Road, Kuala Lumpur, where they lived 1937-1940, and the Cameron Hills. These are followed by a number of individual photographs dating from the Buckleys' time in Malaya, with one taken in Australia. All of the photographs are in black-and-white.

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80 x 129 mm. Showing a squad of police guards taking up position at a strong point at the top of the pass on the road from Seremban to Kuala Pilah.