Volume entitled Letters to Agents, Residents and Chief Commissioners, but containing mainly private letters received by John Lawrence on his Afghan policy and the Frontier
Original letters from Sir John Lawrence to F. Courtenay [these letters were returned to the Lawrence family by F. Courtenay's brother, L. B. Courtenay]
Congratulations on Lahore Durbar; Persian Telegraph line; agrees with Lawrence on Burma railway; propensity of enterprising merchants to involve England in war; despatch being sent authorising reduction of army if Lawrence is satisfied it is right; Madras Govt have foolishly created a new artille...
Pension of late Treasurer of Governor-General's household comes not from general revenue but from household allowance which he has had to retrench to balance books; case of Iqbal-ud-Daula; yield of land revenue in N.W.P.; need to husband land revenue; land worth £1,362,141 given to Guaranteed Rai...