Acknowledges Mayo's letter of 1 September; sorry to hear financial forecast for 1872/73 less good because of opium prospects; answers Mayo's complaints regarding control exercised by Home Govt on various matters, for example, manufacture of gun carriages, and control of military expenditure; agre...
Refers to Mayo's despatch on Gwalior and difficulty of making decision which may involve very serious consequences; believes British under no treaty or moral obligation to return Gwalior fort, regrets Mayo should have said anything to contrary, and requests him to hold out no expectations to Scin...
Has appointed Sir Henry Maine (formerly Law Member of Governor-General's Council) to Council of India – he will add 'much needed element of strength to the Council by his reputation among men of intellectual eminence in this country'.
Agrees that Mayo has taken right view in controversy with Muir over local taxes, that they should all be liable to increase from time to time; feels he must consult Cabinet on Gwalior; possibility that 'row' with Gwalior army would be useful by giving occasion to suppress it altogether; risks of ...
Has recommended Sir Philip Wodehouse for Governorship of Bombay (a Colonial Governor with high reputation), though not known to Argyll personally; asks Mayo to confer with him on longstanding friction between Govts of India and Bombay.
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.
If, as reported, Punjab Irrigation Act includes power to charge lands which do not use water - irrigable but not irrigated – it will probably be disallowed; on Gwalior, some Cabinet members strongly object to Mayo's proposal, Secret Committee of Council of India is much divided, and Mayo has not ...
His only purpose in sending to Temple to Madras was to get some specially good man into Temple's place as Finance Member, but none is to be found; therefore wishes to keep Temple as Finance Member as he has just got into his stride, and to avoid raising expectations of change in financial policy;...