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)
Printed memorandum of correspondence between General Von Kaufmann and the Ameers Shere Ali and Yakub Khan of Kabul, between March 1870 and July 1879, with an appendix giving extracts from notes and letters which passed on the subject in 1870-71
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 from Sir Frederick Roberts regarding Afghanistan
Scope & Content:
Includes a confidential memorandum by Frederick Roberts 'What are Russia's vulnerable points? And how have recent events affected our Afghan Frontier Policy?' dated 22 May 1885
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
Printed draft of a letter to the Marquis of Hartington, Secretary of State for India, from the Government of India, Foreign Department, giving an account of the course of affairs in Northern Afghanistan and defining the objects toward which the policy of the Government of India had been directed
Copy of a letter to Lord Beaconsfield [Benjamin Disraeli] from Lord Lytton, asking his advice concerning certain papers on Afghanistan, and a copy of Lord Beaconsfield's reply
Minute by Lord Ripon, Viceroy, on Sir M Kennedy's memorandum on the work of the Transport and Supply Department during the campaign of 1879-80 in Afghanistan; and a letter to Lord Lytton from Sir M Kennedy regarding the work of the Transport and Supply Department during the campaign of 1879-80 in Afghanistan