Malet, H.P. — LOST LINKS IN THE INDIAN MUTINY.

T. Cautley Newby 1867. 1st Ed. Sm. 8vo. [iv] + 314pp. + [ii] publ. adverts. From the Library of Professor Malcolm Yapp, title page browned, sl damage to pp.113-4, ink stamp of Thomas Caswell to ded. leaf, original gilt lettered blind embossed green cloth, some minor marking, corners and spine sl. bumped, sm. nicks to head and tail of lower joint. Very scarce.Dediction ‘I dedicate this little book to my venerable mother The Dowager Lady Malet, thinking that, imperfect though it be, she will be glad to find that her example of industry, of more than half a century, has not been forgotten. She wil recognise in the escapes fom the Afghans and the Tiger, the adventures of one of her sons, under a feigned name ...’Hugh Poyntz Malet (1808–1904), British officer in the Indian Civil Service who served as the District Collector of Thane (Thana) and is credited with "discovering" the hill station of Matheran in May 1850. While camping near Chowk village, he identified the site's potential as a, cool refuge from the Bombay heat. He was the son of Sir Charles Warre Malet, 1st Baronet (1752–1815) British diplomat who served in the British East India Company as a Resident in the court of the Peshwa Marathas, husband to Lady Malet, who apparently travelled with her father to India in the 1790s, either to Poona or Bombay, before she was married.Fiction.