Records and Recollections 1889-1934 (MBRAS Reprint 21)

276 pp., illustrations, bibliography, glossary, index. JM Gullick has added to the original 1934 edition of the memoirs of JHM Robson by including a background preface as well as some articles presumed to have been written by Robson. As a government official, newspaper editor, businessman and prominent figure in public affairs in Selangor, Robson was at the centre of early colonial society in the state. His main achievement was establishing The Malay Mail. In 1934 he published in Kuala Lumpur his Records and Recollections, which gives much information on the personalities and issues of the era. The book has long been a collectors' item, and it is now reproduced with an introduction and notes by John Gullick. To this has been added certain additional material which is attributable to Robson, culled from newspapers and other sources of the period.