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 ...
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...
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;...