File R 109/1880 - Letter to the Under Secretary of State for India, from Jenkin & Phillips, Drug Brokers, dated 30th January 1880, regarding the sale of bales of cinchona bark from India
File R 110/1880 - Despatches from the India Office to the Government of India and the Madras Government regarding the distribution of a report by Robert Cross on his mission to South America to collect cinchona plants
File R 111/1880 - Letter from Thomas Whiffen, Lombard Road, Battersea, to Sir Louis Mallet, Under Secretary of State for India, dated 30th January 1880, in reply to the India Office letter of the 29th January 1880 regarding his proposal for an experiment to be made by working a parcel of Government Nilgiri cinchona bark
File R 113/1880 - Telegram from the Governor of Bombay, dated 1st February 1880, regarding the prospects for the week ending 31st January 1880, and stating that the rat pest was abating and 16,000 persons were still in receipt of charitable relief
File R 115/1880 - Grant of three months privilege leave to C A Elliott and J B Peile, members of the Famine Commission
Scope & Content:
Includes correspondence regarding an allowance to be granted to A Crawford for the period of his absence from India on special duty to Europe in connection with the Goa Treaty (Anglo-Portuguese Treaty), and the question of his travelling allowances while in Europe and of the cost of his passage b...