Encloses papers concerning petition of Mr Roepstorff, a Dane born in Tranquebar, for employment in India received from King of Denmark via Prince of Wales.
If conservatives have nomination of Lawrence's successor it will be Lord Mayo; comments on Mayo; asks Lawrence's advice on principal questions Mayo should study, and personalities of those with whom he will have to deal; this particularly desirable given probability that there will be new Secreta...
Suggests raising salary of Vakil at Kabul to enable him to appear more important, and of subsidise border chiefs through him; suggest we would command more confidence in Afghanistan if we appeared less ostentatiously indifferent and supported chiefs of Peshawar valley more openly; policy regardin...
Napier to be awarded peerage and pension; honours for other participants in expedition; if some are awarded Star of India this will enhance its prestige; problem of Theodore's son.
KCSIs and CSIs for participants in Abyssinian campaign; Duke of Cambridge's complaint that Lawrence did not consult him on Lt-Col (Sir) P Lumsden's appointment as Quartermaster General.
Now thought impossible to give Star of India for Abyssinian service; Duke of Cambridge proposes conference with Lord Napier of Magdala and Sir John Pakington (Secretary of State for War) on (1) arming native troops with precision weapons, (2) supply of breech-loading artillery to India, (3) organ...
Problem of honours for Abyssinian campaign; at conference with Duke of Cambridge and others, feeling was that India should be supplied with Armstrong gun from England; Northcote explains his reasons for opposing argument that native troops should not be given precision weapons 'out of jealousy', ...