Financial: provincial accounts 1884-85; alleged tendency of excise system to increase intemperance; copy of Bombay Financial Letter to Government of India reporting on that Presidency's financial position
Madras Government - attacks on: Removal of the Seat of the Government of Madras from Madras to Ootacamund (Madras 1884): report of proceedings of a public meeting protesting against annual exodus to hills with extracts containing Indian press opinions
Madras Government - attacks on: William Digby's India for Indians and for England (London 1885); manifestos of Indian Vigilance League founded by Stevens Howard (alias Holt) and confidential report on it; correspondence with Viceroy and others concerning attacks on Grant Duff by Messrs Norton and...
Miscellaneous: folder containing minutes by Grant Duff and others on protective railways and famine in the Ceded Districts, reviews of the Madras administration for the years 1882, 1883 and 1881-85, police, competitive examinations, municipal matters, Syrian Christians in Travancore, the Ecclesia...
Miscellaneous: bundle containing minutes by Grant Duff and others on Grant Duff's visit to Pondicherry (Feb 1885), native volunteer forces, policy towards seditious portion of Indian press, and other administrative matters
Miscellaneous: marked 'Confidential Papers': minutes by Grant Duff, Lord Roberts and others on the abolition of the Madras Army, the possibility of a Russian invasion of India, the annexation of Burma, the Ilbert Bill, railway policy, native volunteers, land revenue settlements, the native press,...
Miscellaneous: letter to Grant Duff from Edmund Forster Webster, Secretary, Madras Revenue Dept, regarding his discussions with the India Office on proposals for grading the Civil Service, land settlement and revenue collection, and other matters