110 x 80 mm.

A report on the discovery of coal deposits in Upper Assam dated 14 October 1872, 4 pages, with an unsigned comment on a separate sheet. The report is accompanied by a lithographed map, 1869, which has coal deposits marked in ink.

508 x 394 mm. watercolour. It recreates one of the Assam Company tea store-houses established at Gauhati along the river route to north-east Assam during the 1840s. A government official converses with a company agent, while tea is being loaded onto a steamer in the background.

455 x 305 mm watercolour by Sidney R. Fever. A quick study to have formed the basis for more detailed paintings illustrating the tea pioneer Charles Bruce’s discovery of indigenous tea growing in Upper Assam.

500 x 330mm. key to the plan of Nazira explaining its central features (RCMS 365/5/16/3).

2 pages.

750 x 560 mm. colour illustrated plan with legend depicting the development of tea planting in the region during the late 1830s and early 1840s.

260 x 275 mm. plan of RCMS 365/5/16/1, The early stages of development of the Assam Company's Headquarters at Nizira, 1839, identifying its central features.

A collection of colour and black and white prints, pen and ink sketches and watercolours commissioned or reproduced by Weatherstone to illustrate his two books on the history of the tea industry.

555 x 360 mm. watercolour by Sidney R. Fever, portraying the station as it would have appeared in 1839.

405 x 255 mm. colour reproduction of RCMS 371/5/16/1.

110 x 80 mm.