Explains Home Govt's position regarding reduction of European troops in India; suggests deciding on what model barracks should be, before embarking on heavy expenditure.
Rumuneration of Adjutant-General; Wood's refusal to accept officially approach from C-in-C, India, via Duke of Cambridge, and insistence it must go through Govt of India; gunnery instructors; thinks temporary dearness allowance should be paid to cavalry as well as infantry; problem of surplus art...
Neither Miss Nightingale nor Sanitary Commission in England should be in direct communication with Indian bodies; all communications from India should go through Governments in India to Secretary of State, and it is in interest of Govts in India and particularly Governor-General to observe this p...
Despatch is being sent on policy in Kathiawar; Wood not satisfied with it but does not 'know what to say better'; only Council members who know much about it are Willoughby (Political Agent, Kathiawar 1828-35) whose views are old fashioned, and Clerk; despatch reflects latter's views; has told pr...
Christmas and New Year good wishes; has told Mr Shields, promoter of scheme to provide wharf accommodation on Hooghly, to deal with authorities in Calcutta; rent question.
Acknowledges Lawrence's letters of 19 and 21 November; is glad to hear relations between Bombay Govt and Public Works Dept have improved; expression of disapprobation has been sent to Frere on his mode of going on; comments on Oudh, and on failure of various land settlements in the past which cau...