Report from HM Consul at Jeddah [Arthur Raby] that this year's pilgrimage to Mecca involved 110,000 people and was attended by comparatively little loss of life
Case of Captain Henry Mack Nepean of the Madras Army who was engaged to take architectural photographs for the Hyderabad Government but has so far failed to deliver any - instances of financial improvidence on his part
Memorial to the Secretary of State for India from the deposed Nawab of Tonk [Mohammad Ali Khan] praying to be reinstated in the government of Tonk (with enclosures and associated correspondence) - the enclosures include 1) Memorandum on the Tonk Case by Sir John Kaye 2) 'Pilgrimage to the Caaba and Charing Cross' by Hefiz Ahmed Hassan, published, London, W H Allen and Co 3) 'Facts connected with the Dethronement of the Nawab of Tonk' by Iltudus Thomas Prichard, (printed for private circulatio...
Proposed visit to England of the Naweb Nazim of Bengal, Vol 2 - his preferred itinerary - deputation of Lieut Colonel Frederick Peter Layard to accompany him - question of Layard's salary
Moosa, the leader of those Anjouan men who had deserted Dr Livingstone near Lake Nyasa, is imprisoned for 8 months at Anjouan then sent to Zanzibar where he is set at liberty on condition he does not return to Anjouan without the King's permission
Memorial to the Secretary of State for India from Babu Ganga Pershad of Bareilly praying for a reconsideration of his previous memorial in which he had asked that the pension awarded him for his services in the Mutiny be commuted to a remission of rent on certain villages (with associated papers)
Memorial to the Secretary of State for India from Masih-ud-din Khan, of Kakori, in Oudh, appealing against the decision of the Government of India not to award him and his son pensions for services performed by them under the former Native Government of Oudh, also preferring a claim against the ex-King of Oudh [Wajid Ali Shah] (with associated correspondence)
Memorial to the Secretary of State for India from the Nawab Nazim of Bengal [Syed Mansur Ali] reviewing certain contentious questions regarding the administration of the Nizamat and the position of the Nawab Nazim over the last 100 years, and seeking redress (attached are a series of appendices containing extracts from the historical records, etc)
Papers regarding the family of the ex-Raja of Coorg [Vira Raja] - report of the Agent to the Governor General at Benares [Alexander Shakespear] on the distribution to the Coorg family of the jewels and other valuables received from England, as well as of a remittance of 29,995 rupees