Sends pamphlet entitled Is Irrigation necessary in Upper India? by Maj A F Corbett [see Mss Eur B380/5, ff354-60], advocating deeper ploughing in India.
Fowler's opinion that there will be virtually no saving by adopting narrow gauge on certain particular railway lines; leaving decision on this matter to Mayo unusual – 'questions of such magnitude being generally decided by Home Govt especially when referred to us' – but done in this case because...
Remonstrates against tone of several recent despatches and minutes from India; in proposing military reductions, Home Govt had in mind reductions in Commissariat and suchlike branches, and therefore not inconsistent to object to reducing manpower; objectionable for General (Sir) H Norman (Militar...
Refers to Mayo's letter of 13 November; premature publication of Mayo's agricultural despatch, and difficulty of maintaining secrecy among 15 members of Council of India; unanimous opposition from Council (which Argyll largely shares) to Govt of India'a Act on Weights and Measure which goes far b...
Nawab Nazim [of Bengal ?] and Mayo's wish that he should leave England – but despite his private conduct, he has right to stay; Weights and Measures Act – Argyll 'dreads' Act contemplating compulsion and penal consequences enforced by 'Wardens and Subwardens who will be natives. I fear this will ...
Approves severity with which Mayo has dealt with delinquents in Public Works Dept at Allahabad; is sure there is 'terrible quantity of fraud in the lower departments of the P.W.D. and of gross carelessness in the higher departments'; enclose another letter from William Fenwick claiming that procl...
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.