File S&C 960/1880 - Letter from the Admiralty, dated 7th August 1880, regarding an alleged wreck near Tristan d’Acunha (da Cunha), and authorisation for the sloop Miranda to call at Inaccessible Island and search it on the possibility of finding shipwrecked people
File S&C 961/1880 - Proposal to publish a work on architectural and decorative art in Rajputana
Scope & Content:
File includes 2 copies of the “Prospectus of a Work to be entitled Illustrations of Architectural and Decorative Art in Rajputana and Adjacent Districts,” by F W A De Fabek and Major S S Jacob
File S&C 962/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute paper regarding the forwarding to the Board of Trade of a copy of a letter from the Government of India on the subject of the provision of boat accommodation and other life-saving appliances for passenger vessels
File S&C 966/1880 - Letter from W Brown, 8 Cumberland Terrace, Sunderland, accompanied with an extract copied from the Shipwreck Gazette, regarding a supposed shipwreck near Tristan d’Acunha (da Cunha) and the supposed loss of the Joseph Brown, a brig reported to be long overdue
File S&C 967/1880 - Request for the Times of India newspaper, Bombay, to be placed on the list of journals to receive Parliamentary papers relating to India as soon as published
File S&C 968/1880 - Letters from the Government of Punjab advising of the despatch of 158 samples of Punjab wheat to the address of the Under Secretary of State for India
File S&C 969/1880 - Payment by the Salvage Association, Liverpool, of £1000 to be credited to the Accountant General Bombay, for services rendered to the wrecked vessel ss. Thessaly by the crew of the Indian Government steamer Dagmar and by the Persian Garrison
File S&C 970/1880 - Submission to the India Office, by Major H G Raverty, Bombay Army (retired), of Part Two of the Third Section of his “Notes on Afghanistan”
Scope & Content:
The Notes on Afghanistan are not present in the file
File S&C 971/1880 - Application by the Philological Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for a copy of the Rigveda, on behalf of Pandit Satyavrata Samasrami, a Vedic scholar in India and editor of the Samaveda