Apologises for not writing, but needed holiday; encomium on dear friend, 5th Earl Spencer, who has just died – 'the very finest type of what the old patrician system of this country could produce'.
Attorney-General's opinion on French demand for Savarkar to be surrendered to them; Gupta does not want to go to Bengal Council; has suggested three names which Morley has passed on; Sinha has suggested (Sir) B C Mitter (Hindu) or Ali Imam (Muslim) as his successor; is against Orange's appointmen...
India is beginning to attract public interest in England; Chirol's articles in Times are partly to blame - when published in a volume they will provoke much discussion; believes Clarke (Governor of Bombay) is one of Times sources; glad at improving situation in Tibet and hopes Younghusband will n...
Telegrams will have informed Minto how serious a view Morley takes of way in which [Press ?]Act of 1908 is being worked; encloses two statements from which telegrams arose, and considers they will cause huge row when they become public; regrets authorising Act – he assumed Government of India wou...
Has seen Duke and Halliday [presumably (Sir) F W Duke, Chief Secretary, Bengal and Sir F M Halliday, Commissioner of Police, Calcutta] who did not quite convince him of wisdom of police doings in Calcutta but enabled him to realise more clearly local point of view; comments on Chirol; political s...
Has been reading in Times about various feasts in honour of Minto; hopes to discuss Bengal Council appointment with Sir L Jenkins; Ali Imam is right choice as successor to Sinha; there have already been letters in English newspapers protesting at all the places being given to Hindus; Civil Servi...
Makes light of despatch from Governor-General in Council complaining at Montagu's reference to them as 'Competent Clerks'; Benares case; dined with the Gaekwar and his family; found Gaekwar's wife very anti-British Raj; she talked about Viceregal tours as extravagant waste of money; Morley mentio...
This may be his last letter to Minto; feels they have worked well together and risks of working with a man whom one's own party did not appoint have been surmounted; representative from Nepal cannot be invited to Coronation, when other Indian princes are not; believes Curzon has told King that he...
Informs Hardinge of Crewe's collapse and Morley himself taking over as Secretary of State again; fears royal visit will arrest 'real business' and warns Hardinge that King is liable to interfere in affairs that do not concern him, and that Hardinge must be firm.