India and the Punjab Login family papers, including handwritten travel diary & personal note

India and the Punjab Login family papers, including handwritten travel diary & personal note book of Maharajah Duleep Singh’s guardian. A large collection of items from the Archive of Sir John & Lady Login who were the guardian of Maharajah Duleep Singh, containing his East India Company military certificates and papers, official letters of appointment, a travel diary of Lady Lena Login, a newspaper cutting of the Kohinoor diamond, and detailed biographical handwritten notebook on Dr Login’s early life written chronologically with dates in the margin from 1809 including schools, education, ancestor, family, arrival in India in 1832 to his service in Dianpore, medical detachment to Persia, Calcutta, Lucknow, entering service of Nizam of Hyderabad, in 1834 where he was for two years, Army of Indus in 1838, and Candahar in 1839, containing transcripts of letters written to his family and officials such as the Surgeon to Sir Charles Metcalfe. Military certificates include ‘Surgeon in the service of the East Company’ with a wax seal, appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Bengal Establishment of the EIC in 1832, one for the Kings Army in 1835, another one for the King’s Army in 1842, including official correspondence from the Commander in Chiefs Office, and a batch of document and letters from his return to England and addressed to Roehampton in 1855, which was Maharajah Duleep Singh London residence, including large headed receipt for an order for a carriage at Roehampton, probably for the Maharajah’s use. Large 2pp document, dated 1858 regarding Sir John Logins allowance as guardian to the Maharajah of Lahore Dr Login was seen as a father figure to the young Sikh ruler, and these documents give an insight into the early part of his life.