Minute by the Viceroy, Lord Lytton, regarding Afghanistan, the political objectives of the Government of India, and the field operation to Ghazni led by General Sir D Stewart
Copy of a (Secret) Letter (No 160 of 1879) to Viscount Cranbrook, Secretary of State for India, from the Government of India, Foreign Department, giving a report of proceedings in connection with recent Afghan affairs (Second Afghan War and the Treaty of Gandamak)
Newspaper cuttings regarding the resignation of Lord Northbrook as Viceroy of India and the appointment of Lord Lytton as his successor
Scope & Content:
Includes cuttings from The Pall Mall Gazette, Public Opinion, The Spectator, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, The Examiner and The Overland Mail
Papers regarding a report in Vanity Fair on 15 May 1880 of the loss of stores and baggage belonging to General Baker's Command in Afghanistan which occurred during the marches performed by troops between the 9th and 12th December 1879
Letters to Lord Lytton from George Batten regarding Indian finances and public works expenditure
Scope & Content:
Includes notes on India finances and public works by George Batten (in reply to Lord Hartington's "statement of some of the principal facts relating to those public works in India which have been undertaken either directly by the Government or under the guarantee of a minimum rate of interest by...