Most of the present collection dates from Lenox-Conyngham's years in Cambridge, but, the diaries apart, many items look back on his service with the Survey of India. The extensive correspondence with Burrard presents many new insights into the workings of the Survey, and the personalities of its senior officers, while that with R. H. Phillimore illustrates the many difficulties Phillimore encountered in compiling and publishing, in newly independent India, his massive History of the Survey.
Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham: Correspondence and Papers
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- ReferenceGB 12 MS Add.9249
- Dates of Creation1881-1957 (Circa)
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- Language of MaterialEnglish .
- Physical Description3 archive box(es) 3 boxes
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Presented by Lady Barbara Bottomley via Dr Carol Williams, August 1994; Add.9249/I/0 presented by Dr. Williams in 2012
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