India, Kashmir & elsewhere.- Hailey (Alessandra, wife of (William) Malcolm Hailey, Baron Hailey, administrator in India and writer on Africa, 1872-1969, d. 1939) [Diary and letters with copies], manuscript, c. 183pp., copy letter to Lord Hardinge tipped-in, slightly browned, original cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed, 4to, 1916-19.

⁂ An account of various trips in India, including Kashmir and the Punjab, mentioning Bandipura, Nambal and Baramulla. With an account of bear hunting etc. "Tuesday 20th. We went out in the white mullah. Balu came I let him get very near perhaps 20 yard it was dark I & Balu were in the shade & there was a streak of moonlight was between us. I did let him get near in spite of Shaikur elbow hits. It was nice at that short distance I had to kill him first bullet or leave him alone. However I was lucky & dropped him where he stood. She is a lovely bear 6 ft from nose to tail with a lovely mane of fur on her neck. I am all tingling & throbbing, - I came in at 7 45 & sat in my chair first. Mushraf offered me a drink - 'No, first pour a jug of water on my head!'... he did so after I had taken of coat & collar." - Alessandra Hailey.

".... Andreina Alessandra Balzani (d. 1939)... married in 1896, was the daughter of a Roman count. She was beautiful, athletic, musically talented, and possessed of considerable courage, as for example when she went up in a small aeroplane at Lahore, crashed, and walked away vowing to go up again as soon as possible. But she was a foreigner, and never really fitted into British colonial society." - Oxford DNB.