Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy (1912-86) Tandy had a career spanning the Royal Artillery, the North-West Frontier Province of India, and colonial administration in the Persian Gulf, where he was Political Officer, Trucial Coast, and later Political Agent, Kuwait. His posts and dates include: Vice-Consul Zabul 1939-40, Assistant Commissioner Kohat 1940-41, Vice-Consul Bushire 1941, Political Officer Trucial Coast 1943-44, Assistant Political Agent Bahrain 1944-45, Political Agent Kuwait 1945-48.
The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 'for the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia'. It continues as a forum for those who are interested in the languages, cultures and history of Asia to meet and exchange ideas.
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Two handwritten manuscripts by Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy, two allied letters, and some provenance information.
There are two manuscripts, one of which has allied correspondence, so two files were created for these manuscripts, and a further file for the provenance material.
An document under Library Reports lists that these manuscripts and some issues of Asian Affairs were donated by Mrs Virginia Pilbrow. A copy of this document has been placed with this material. This document dates to June 2000.
With the "Grammar of Azerbaijan Turkish" is a letter sent from Tandy to General Sir John O'Shea of The Royal Central Asian Society in 1946 to give the material to the Society.
These papers were catalogued by Nancy Charley, RAS Archivist, in 2019.
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"Notes on Caucasian Turkish and the Turkoman Dialect By Capt. M. P. O'C. Tandy. Indian Political Service." An unpublished manuscript in which Tandy sets out his notes in lessons to aid travellers and beginners in the language. He gives an introduction to the work and a further introduction to the Turkoman dialect before proceeding with 15 lessons. The manuscript consists of 62 foolscap pages between soft covers.
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"A Grammar of Azerbaijan Turkish" - an unpublished manuscript in which Tandy sets out in chapters what he has learnt about the language. The manuscript consists of 46 foolscap pages. With the manuscript are two letters. The first, unsigned, is to General Sir John Shea, c/o The Royal central Asian Society, to send this grammar which he believes is the only English language grammar of Azerbaijani Tartar or Turki. It was compiled in 1940 when Tandy was in Meshed and he hopes that it may be of interest to some member of the Royal Central Asian Society or, possibly, to the War Office.
The second letter is from R.O. Wingate, Secretary of the Royal Central Asian Society, to Major Tandy replying in the absence of Sir John Shea. He thanks Tandy for the Grammar and expresses that it is being kept in the rooms of the Society for use by its members and that the Secretary has found it interesting reading. This letter is dated 31 July 1946.
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A note from the Library Records dating to 17 June 2000 to state that Mrs Virginia Pilbrow had donated several copies of Asian Affairs and the Tandy material. This document was originally located within the Collections electronic records and was printed out in February 2019 as a permanent record of the donation.