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Rough biographical notes concerning Professor E.H.S. Simmonds.

Newspaper report from Bombay Gazette, 24 April 1869, on talk given by Rev. Dr. Wilson to the Bengal Asiatic Society on 7 April 1869 entitled "Dr. Wilson on Indian Research" Printed material with references to Colebrooke underlined by hand.

E.H.S. Simmonds: A Biographical Note by C. D. Cowan.

A biographical note of Professor E.H.S. Simmonds.

"H.T. Colebrooke - Memoirs and Autographs", A red calf bound book, containing printed and handwritten material including biographical material concerning Colebrooke, obituary notices for Horace Hayman Wilson, and correspondence from Colebrooke to Nathaniel Wallich. On the inside cover there is a bookplate with "Ex Libris Frederick Hendricks, F.S.S., F.S.A., Knight of Vasa. 1893" and a printed auction listing "226. Colebrook (H.T.) Notice historique sure la vie et les ouvrages de M. Colebrooke par M. C.A. Walckenaer, Paris, 1848, with biographical notices from various periodicals and numerous interesting autograph letter of Colebrooke, half red calf". Frederick Hendricks is an ancestor of the donor who also has family connections with the Colebrooke family.

Obituary notice for Professor Simmonds on page 55. With The Record is a Compliment slip from Roger Boden, Keble College Development Office, and a letter from Margaret Simon, Alumni Relations Officer, Keble College, thanking Patricia Simmonds for the information she sent, dated 2 May 1995

Newspaper cutting for the sale of three items of correspondence from Henry Thomas Colebrooke to Dr Wallich dating from 1823-1837. Written in pencil beside the cutting, "Autograph Letters of Colebrooke, Wallich's Catalogue"

"Notice historique sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. Colebrooke par M. C.A. Walckenaer, Paris, 1848". Printed work relating to the life of Henry Thomas Colebrooke, written due to Colebrooke's associate membership of l'Academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres on 30 December 1831. Printed in French, 30 pages, 1848.

Obituary of Professor E.H.S. Simmonds, sent from the Director's Office at SOAS.

An obituary notice for Henry Thomas Colebrooke detailing his many achievements and publications. A handwritten copy from "The Gentleman's Magazine", September 1837. No detail of who made the copy.