| Description | Being copy letters of the Caine family. The letters (15 in all) are headed variously from Bombay, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Lahore Alleghur, Lucknow, Benares, Calcutta, Darjeeling and Mahableshwar, and contain a wealth of intelligent and fascinating obsevations on the people, customs, flora, fauna and topography of the sub-continent. |
| AdminHistory | William Sproston Caine was sometime M.P. for Scarborough. He was the father of Lady Clwyd (Hannah Rushton Clwyd, 1869-1951), and his wife was the daughter of Hugh Stowell Brown, the well-known Baptist minister of Myrtle Street, Liverpool. |