Asian Studies Resources in the Special Collections Research Center

Diary of an unidentified traveler in India, Egypt, Turkey, and Greece, ca. 1830-1860

Two diaries kept by Julia Marie Huyshe (1812- 1890) describing living in and traveling around India with her husband Colonel Alfred Huyshe and children from 1855-1864. Julia Huyshe and her children go back to England during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, but return to Indian afterward and she documents the resulting destruction.

Three letters written from Delhi and Jeypur [Jaipur] by a British journalist (Box 1, Folder 13) as well as 6 photographs he took while in India (Box 2, Folder 21)

Includes travel diaries from 1955 (England, Austria, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Philippines, Hong Kong, and Japan, typed), and 1961 (Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, India, Israel, Greece, Hungary, and Austria, typed)

Diary entries document a grant-funded study trip to India in 1975 and describe the landscape and culture (Box 1, Folder 5)

Diary by an unidentified traveler during a trip to Asia, visiting Thailand, India, and Hong Kong. The author comments on the scenery and the locals.

Includes information and media coverage of Gates's 2008 trip to Hawaii, Australia, Indonesia, India, and Turkey (Box 11, Folders 5-7); information, photos, and clippings on Gates's 2010 trip to India and Pakistan (Box 24, Folders 11-12; Box 25, Folders 1-2; and Box 73, Folder 4); and information on Haiti and Pakistan for Gates's book, Duty (Box 235, Folder 5)

Diary of U.S. Army Signal Corps corporal written while stationed in Assam, India during World War II. The diary itself was purchased by Alexander in Tezpur, India in November 1942.

Letters to her aunt and uncle from a U.S. Army nurse stationed in a military hospital in India. Potter's correspondence contains a log of wartime conditions the hospital. Her letters discuss poor food and housing conditions, status of her work in India, the war in India and China, and aspects relative to women's history during the Second World War.

Includes several letters home from Francis X. Schwartz of the U.S. Army Air Corps while stationed in India in 1944. (Box 2, Folder 1) Available online in the W&M Digital Archive.

22 letters from a Methodist missionary to India in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, including Moradabad and Lucknow. Blackmar was serving as a missionary during the great famine of India from 1876-1878 and comments on the conditions of the region in great detail in her letters.

About 80 letters and a small diary of the family of Pastor Edward Hilliard, missionaries to the Tonga in the South Pacific, Melbourne, Australia, Tazmania, and Bangalore [Bengaluru], India.

The diaries were written between 1915 - 1922 by Munshi Radha Mohan Lal B.A., a Nazim, a city magistrate in the Princely State of Jaipur, today's state of Rajasthan in northwestern India. The diaries, which detail his daily activities and accounts, are written in English, with very few words, phrases, dates, or notes written in Hindi and Urdu.

Includes letters from Admiral Hall to Mulk Raj Ahuja, Consul General of India in San Francisco (Box 4, Folder 3); M. A. Hussain, Consul General of India (Box 4, Folder 6); and Jaime Jerro, Consul General of India (Box 5, Folder 4), 1952-1953

Writings, correspondence, and other records for Indian-born poet who immigrated to the U.S. at the age of six and was a writer-in-residence at W&M

Map of British India by J. Rapkin, circa 1857 (Undersize Maps, Box 1, Folder 2)
Rand McNally Standard Map of India, circa 1900 (Mapcases, Folder 3)
National Geographic Society Map of India and Burma [Myanmar], 1946 (Mapcases, Folder 3)
Government of India Information Services Map of India, undated (Mapcases, Folder 3)

Photographs and photograph albums, circa 1950s-1980s, of Doris Baker, author and poet of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The photographs document her travels throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia and include images of scenery, people with whom she met, and people with whom she traveled. Baker was from Muskegon, Michigan and went to work teaching in Department of Defense schools in Europe in the 1950s. Images from Baker's 1965 trip to India are located in Box 1, Folders 8-9.

The set includes stereoview images from six continents, excluding Antarctica. The scenes capture diverse people, monuments, and landscapes. Each stereoview has a description of the scene located on the back, which are often ethnocentric towards non-western cultures.
Images of India, such as the Ellora Caves or a vegetable market beside the Godavari River, are located in Box 5.