Hopes John Strachey (Home Member, Governor-General's Council) will soon get KCSI; price of opium and therefore revenue likely to rise in current year; Herat appears to have fallen through treachery, which suggest Yaqub had received substantial funds from some source; on receiving an intimation th...
Refers to Argyll's letter of 19 May; relationship between settlement of land revenue and local taxation; Secretary of State's orders issued four years previously for permanent settlements have not in fact been acted on; Sir W Muir (Lt-Governor of North-Western Provinces) opposes view that revenue...
Despatch being sent on reduction of native army which Mayo hopes will close the question; Mayo comments adversely on utility of Madras Army which he believes it is unnecessary to maintain at its present strength; C-in-C's low opinion of it; situation in Afghanistan and risky nature of Sher Ali's ...
Mayo's letter to Amir seems to have had good effect, but situation in Afghanistan could change again; Yaqub boasts of having obtained money from Persia – gates of Herat clearly opened by bribery; encloses memorandum on Alwar case.
Photocopies of correspondence between the Viceroy the Earl of Mayo and the Secretary of State for India the Duke of Argyll taken from the Mayo Papers at Cambridge University Library.
Announces appointment as Secretary of State; since Indian politics are largely unconnected with party struggles at home [the two men belonged to different parties], hopes for open and confidential communication with Mayo; will be anxious to know Mayo's views in time on all questions on which latt...
Northcote has passed to him various letters from Sir R Temple (Finance Member of Governor General's Council) on Indian budget; believes proposals to decentralise finance are premature; suggests less stringent supervision of local Govts' budgets; method of estimating opium revenue; need for India ...
Despatch being sent agreeing to imposition of Income tax; as regards salt duties, Madras and Bombay will not be allowed to increase them; believes there is very strong evidence (but his Council dispute this) for their reduction in north west, but evidence is less strong for Bengal; hopes that, wi...
Asks for Mayo's opinion on pamphlet on education in India by Sir Alexander Grant (Vice-Chancellor of Bombay University 1863-68); questions practice of selling by public auction presents to Governor-General from native princes which must give offence to donors; does not understand why Indian Govt'...