File R 2/1881 - Copy of a telegram from the Secretary of State for India to the Viceroy, dated 3rd January 1881, asking when he may expect some views on the report of the Indian Famine Commission
File R 4/1881 - Proceedings relating to the claim of the Government of Madras against Messrs Chapman and Hall (Limited) regarding the balance of the amount remitted to them on account of the cost of models and diagrams required for illustrating veterinary lectures at the Agricultural School at Saidapet
File R 7/1881 - Papers on the questions of the appointment of a Survey and Settlement Commissioner for the Bombay Presidency following the retirement of Colonel W C Anderson, and the possibility or advantage of dispensing with a revision of the field work of measurement and classification preliminary to future revisions of assessment
File R 8/1881 - Correspondence regarding the conviction of the stamp vendor Vrijwullub for the Kaira stamp forgeries, sentenced by the Sessions Court at Ahmedabad to four years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of 1,000 rupees
File R 9/1881 - Memoranda submitted to the India Office by Dadabhai Naoroji
Scope & Content:
The file includes two papers by Dadabhai Naoroji: 'Memorandum No.2, The Moral Poverty of India' dated 16th November 1880, and 'Memorandum No.3, On a few statements in the report of the Indian Famine Commission' dated 4th January 1881
File R 12/1881 - Letter from Jenkin & Phillips, London Drug Brokers, dated 5th January 1881, regarding a receipt by Dr B H Paul for analysis of a cinchona bark sample from Tinnevelly marked Papanasam