Has recommended Sir Philip Wodehouse for Governorship of Bombay (a Colonial Governor with high reputation), though not known to Argyll personally; asks Mayo to confer with him on longstanding friction between Govts of India and Bombay.
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.
If, as reported, Punjab Irrigation Act includes power to charge lands which do not use water - irrigable but not irrigated – it will probably be disallowed; on Gwalior, some Cabinet members strongly object to Mayo's proposal, Secret Committee of Council of India is much divided, and Mayo has not ...
His only purpose in sending to Temple to Madras was to get some specially good man into Temple's place as Finance Member, but none is to be found; therefore wishes to keep Temple as Finance Member as he has just got into his stride, and to avoid raising expectations of change in financial policy;...
Controversy in Council of India over proposed compulsory retirement of Col (later General Sir) Mowbray Thomson ( a 'hero of the Mutiny') because of certain indiscretions; association has been formed in England for defending officers' rights and Thomson's case just the sort which they could plausi...
Photocopies of two letters from Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive (1725-74), one to his father, dated 25 Sep 1765, the other to his sister, dated 6 Aug 1767; with typescript transcripts.
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Photocopies of two letters from Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive (1725-74), one to his father, dated 25 Sep 1765, the other to his sister, dated 6 Aug 1767; with typescript transcripts.
Correspondence of Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858-1944), as Viceroy of India 1910-16, with the Secretary of State for India. Copied from microfilm (ref: Or Mic 14138) of Hardinge Collection, vol 117, supplied by Cambridge University Library.
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Correspondence of Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858-1944), as Viceroy of India 1910-16, with the Secretary of State for India. Copied from microfilm (ref: Or Mic 14138) of Hardinge Collection, vol 117, supplied by Cambridge University Library.
Correspondence of Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858-1944), as Viceroy of India 1910-16, with the Secretary of State for India. Copied from microfilm (ref: Or Mic 14138) of Hardinge Collection, vol 118, supplied by Cambridge University Library.
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Correspondence of Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858-1944), as Viceroy of India 1910-16, with the Secretary of State for India. Copied from microfilm (ref: Or Mic 14138) of Hardinge Collection, vol 118, supplied by Cambridge University Library.