Scope and Contents Manuscript narrative of a two-month hunting expedition in June-July 1875 undertaken by three army officers 'under a cloud' as they travelled without official passes of the Kashmir Government, hence the pseudonyms of 'Colonel Jones' and 'Major Robinson'. The third, 'General Brown' did not complete the journey. 'Major Robinson' was Hubert Richard Lovett (1854-1908), then a Lieutenant in the 60th Rifles. They journeyed from Sialkot into the Pir Panjal range, along the Jhelum River and...

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78 x 108 mm.

Scope and Contents 237 x 295 mm. View looking down on a fast flowing river running through heavy woodland, with the peaks of the Himalayas in the distance. Bourne reached Singpore in June 1864, a few days after crossing the Chenab, ‘A village of two houses called Singpore was my next sleeping place. This was situated about eight miles below the Meribul Pass, which now rose majestically before me, and which I had to cross in my next march to get into Kashmir. Having seen everything in order, I started at...

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Fourteen paintings on cardboard of mountains and valleys. Two of the cards have a painting on each side. A few of the watercolours are labelled with dates and places, which include the Sind Valley.

Scope and Contents 296 x 237 mm. View looking along the steep sided valley, with a river running among the woods on the valley floor and the peak of Srikanta (21,449 ft and 9 miles WSW of Gangotri) in the distance. Bourne came across this valley just after crossing the Neela Pass, ‘I was going along enjoying once more the refreshing spectacle of grassy hills and foliage, when I suddenly came to the brow of a hill, which revealed before me one of the most beautiful landscapes I have seen in the whole course of...