The personal scrapbook of Sir John David Rees (1854-1922, colonial administrator and MP)/Sir J D Rees, who wrote a number of books on British India, was first appointed to the Indian Civil Service in 1875 and served as under-secretary in the Madras Government and later as British Resident in Travancore and Cochin [Wikipedia]. He retired from the civil service in 1901 and became an MP, initially for Montgomery, in 1906. He was created a baronet in 1919. Rees's scrapbook, approximately 200 page folio of stout paper (probably Indian), disbound, plus blanks, numbered '81702' on the upper cover. containing approximately 150 letters and other documents, largely from India, some from the India Office in London, including many from British officials and dignitaries including Lord Connemara (1890), Lord Lansdowne (from Simla, 1891, thanking him for Tours in India), many Indian officials etc. The bulk of the content is press cuttings relating to Indian affairs and to Rees's various books. Also included are several telegrams, visiting cards etc. and documents in Russian, Finnish and Swedish, evidently relating to Rees's travels in 1893.