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Account of "An Adventure with Bengal Dacoits" by Samuel Wauchope.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10654
Scope and Contents

With seven photographs.

Dates: 1850.

Lecture notes and photographs on the life of Mary Scott, missionary.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13406
Scope and Contents

Lecture notes and reminiscences by Mrs Martha Steedman, 2012, on Miss Mary Scott, missionary of Kalimpong and Sikkim. Page 4 of the notes was not received from the donor. The notes are accompanied by early 21st century photographs of the school with which Miss Scott was so heavily involved in establishing at Gangtok and its surrounding area.

Dates: 2012

Papers of James Robertson, civil engineer, including other papers, chiefly correspondence, of members of his family.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10012/1-12
Scope and Contents Correpondence, journals, and photographs of James Robertson, civil engineer, with other papers of members of his family. James Robertson worked on the construction of the Port Patrick Railway, Ayrshire, 1859-60, and then in India, particularly on the G I P Railway at Nagpore, Centra Provinces. He returned to Scotland in 1870 and became a partner in the Milnwood Iron Works, Motherwell.The correspondence, which forms the bulk of this collection, consists largely of letters written...
Dates: 1859-1890, undated.

Papers of William Summers Sutherland, missionary in Kalimpong.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13268/1-8
Scope and Contents Letters, diary, notes and photographs, 1894-1920, of Dr William Summers Sutherland (1856-1924), Church of Scotland minister and missionary, and his wife, Annabella.Sutherland`s first posting as a missionary was to Darjeeling in 1879, later moving to the station at Kalimpong, India. Most of the papers in this archive relate to the two visits made by Sutherland to Bhutan. The first was in 1917, during which Sutherland was involved in the baptism of a Lepcha man. The second took...
Dates: 1890-1919, undated.

Photographc plates and slides concerning Church of Scotland missionary activity in India and Pakistan.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.10590/1-100
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Some of the slides are accompanied by scripts and where this is the case the information is recorded in the relevant record.

Dates: 1953-1973, undated.

Photographs and photocopies from albums illustrating the social life of the Pymm family in India.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12470
Scope and Contents

Includes copies of photographs and papers relating to the career of Thomas Ward-Allan, Superintendent of the Chulas and Bagracote Tea Co Ltd, Dooars, India.

Dates: circa 1913-1919.

Typescript copies of correspondence between Thomas Goldie Scot, Surgeon-Major, Cameron Highlanders, in India, and his family in Edinburgh and Moniaive.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9266
Scope and Contents

Transcribed from the originals, with two photographs of portraits of Thomas Scot, father of Thomas Goldie Scot.

Dates: 1842-1859.

Typescripts compiled by Richard Davidson, "Old Dooars Days", and "Tea in India".

 File
Identifier: Acc.9024
Scope and Contents

With associated photographs.

Dates: circa 1930.