Six diaries of Arthur Tosio Peppe (1873-1949) of Ranchi Beng...

Hammer

£150

Six diaries of Arthur Tosio Peppe (1873-1949) of Ranchi Bengal, India, for the years 1903-1908, all with manuscript entries throughout, all Traill's indian Pocket Diaries, limp leather gilt bindings; together with a copy book containing numerous carbon copy leaves of letters by William Peppe, 1887, of the Birdpore Estate, in Northern India on the border with Nepal, an inhospitable area known as the 'Gorakpur Tarai', notorious for malaria, that Peppe, despite the difficulties of the terrain & threat of disease, managed to cultivate and build up during the secord half of the 19th Century, eventually managing an estate of nearly 50 square miles, and the site of the Piprahwa Buddhist Stupa, where excavation commenced in 1897 on what turned out to be an extremely significant Buddhist archaeological & religious find of ashes and jewels; plus some other 20th Century Peppe family diaries, snapshot photo albums, postcard albums, etc