Others: Sir Juland Danvers (Secretary, Public Works, Railway and Telegraph Depts); William George Pedder (Secretary, Revenue, Statistics and Commerce Dept); Sir George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood (Special Assistant, Statistics and Commerce Dept and Visitor to India Museum); Frederick Charles ...
Under-Secretaries of State: John Arthur Godley (later 1st Baron Kilbracken); Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, Bart (later 1st Baron Kay-Shuttleworth); Lord Harris
Secretaries of Government of India Departments: Sir Edward Charles Buck (Revenue and Agriculture); Col (later Gen Sir) George Tomkyns Chesney (Military); Sir Henry Mortimer Durand (Foreign); Sir Alexander Mackenzie (Home)
Private Secretaries: Sir Robert Henry Hobart, 1st Bart (P.S. to Lord Hartington); Robert Bickersteth (P.S. to Lord Kimberley); Adolphus Warburton Moore (P.S. to Lord Randolph Churchill)
Members of Governor-General's Council: Maj Evelyn Baring (later 1st Earl of Cromer) and Sir Auckland Colvin (successively Finance Members); Maj-Gen Thomas Fourness Wilson (Military Member); Sir Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert (Law); Sir Theodore Cracraft Hope (Public Works); Sir William Wilson Hunter ...
Lord Halifax; Sir Robert Hart, 1st Bart (Inspector General of Customs in China); Sir James Robert Longden (Governor of Ceylon); Lord Northbrook. Also letters from Norman Robert Pogson (Government Astronomer at Madras), William Spottiswoode (mathematician), Lt-Gen Sir Richard Strachey and others o...