Papers, 1864-[1910], of John Griffiths, relating mainly to his career as an artist and Principal of the Bombay School of Art in India, comprising thirty-eight letters, 1864-1905, mainly from colonial administrators and officials in India and London, including several Governors of Bombay, and from noted artists (items 1-38); together with miscellaneous papers, 1870-[1910] (items 39-47).
The correspondents are Evelyn Baring, Government House, Calcutta, 2 January 1874 (item 1), [Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of] Northbrook, June-October 1876 (items 2-3), [Sir] George Birdwood, India Office, 19 October 1888 (item 4), [Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl] Brassey, [n.d.] (item 5), [Sir] Ja[mes] Clark, Bagshot Park, 1864-1865 (items 6-8), John Collier, 11-15 June 1905 (items 9-10, with a draft reply by Griffiths on item 9), Arthur Ellis, [Equerry to the Prince of Wales], January-March 1876 (items 11-13), [Sir] B. H. Ellis, Calcutta, 1874, and India Office, 1885 (items 14-15), [Sir] James Fergusson, Governor of Bombay, 8-12 October 1882 (items 16-17), H. B[artle] E. Frere, 1870-1972 (items 18-19), William Gill, 15 July [?1880] (item 20), [Sir] A[rthur] E[dward] Hardinge, Commander in Chief, Bombay [Army], 2 March [1881x1886] (item 21), [G. R. C. Harris, Baron] Harris, [Governor of Bombay], 16 April 1893 (item 22), [George James Howard, Earl of] Carlisle, 20 September 1892 (item 23), [Donald James Mackay, Baron] Reay, [Governor of Bombay], 6 April 1890 (item 24), F. G. J. [Mackay, Baroness] Reay, 16 October 1890 (item 25), Daniel Maclise, 1 September 1865 (item 26), [Sir] M[axwell] Melvill, 24 March [?] (item 27), George [Porter], Archbishop of Bombay, 21 August 1889 (item 28), Samaldas Parmanand[d]as, [Divan of Bhavnagar], 24 October 1883 (item 29), Val Prinsep, 21 April 1882 (item 30), [Sir] J[ohn] Scott, [?1890s] (items 31-32), Takhtsinhji, [Maharaja of Bhavnagar], 3 March 1893 (item 33), [Sir] R. Temple, [?Governor of Bombay], Matheran, [1877x1880] (item 34), T. H. Thornton, Delhi, 2 January 1877 (item 35), G. F. Watts, 23 July 1865 (item 36), W[illiam] Wordsworth, 24 December 1890 (item 37), and J. Young, Freemasons' Hall, Byculla, 30 October 1888 (item 38). Other papers include an account of a tiger shoot, 16-18 May 1883 (item 39); a table plan for a Farewell Dinner to [G. R. C. Harris, Baron] Harris, 14 February 1895 (item 42); an illustrated brochure concerning the 'Sir J. J.' School of Art, [1910] (item 43); and six newspaper cuttings, 1894-1898, concerning Sir Charles Hutton Gregory and his wife Mrs Fanny Stirling (item 47).