File S&C 734/1880 - Application of Mr Arthur Little, Falkland House, Church End, Finchley, for employment in the India Office
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of a testimonial from J Forbes Watson, India Office, dated 19th July 1879, recommending Mr Arthur Little for “any employment requiring intellectual qualifications of a high order”
File S&C 767/1880 - Enquiry of Mr D Whitehead (junior) as to whether the Government of India still offers a reward of £5000 for a cheap invention for separating the fibre from the wood and bark of “China Grass”
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of Notification No.45, dated 31st August 1877, on the subject of Fibres and Silk, issued by the Government of India Department of Revenue, Agriculture, and Commerce
File S&C 788/1880 - Letter No.13 of 1880, dated 1st June 1880, from the Government of India Home, Revenue and Agricultural Department, to the Secretary of State for India, advising of the despatch of six copies of a work on “Tea in India” by Mr F Linde, of Calcutta, and accompanying maps
Scope & Content:
The work on “Tea in India” and accompanying maps are not present in the file
File S&C 855/1880 - Request of Mr James Johnston, Secretary to the General Council on Education in India, to be supplied with copies of the Reports on Public Instruction in India
Scope & Content:
File includes a Preliminary List of Members of the General Council on Education in India
File S&C 857/1880 - Request of the Liverpool Salvage Association in salvaging the steamer Duke of Lancaster that had run ashore at Jubal Zooghur
Scope & Content:
File includes a press cutting on the loss of the steamer Duke of Lancaster and a copy of correspondence arising from the case of the wreck of the steamship Penguin in the Red Sea, together with an extract of a letter from the Salvage Association, dated 27th February 1880
File S&C 909/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute paper regarding an instruction on the flags to be used by the Trustees of the Port of Bombay
Scope & Content:
The instruction on the flags to be used by the Trustees of the Port of Bombay is not included in the file
File S&C 931/1880 - Despatch from the Chief Commissioner, British Burma Revenue Department, to the India Office, of copies of the British Burma Lighthouse Report for 1879/80, the Lock Hospital Report for 1879, the British Burma Police Report for 1879, and Volume II of the British Burma Gazetteer
Scope & Content:
The reports and gazetteer are not present in the file
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 1031/1880 - Application of Mr B F Stevens, 4 Trafalgar Square, London, to consult the early records of the East India Company
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of a publication, consisting of 7 pages, entitled The Platform of the Hercules Club and Prospectus of its Publications (printed by Charles Whittingham for the Hercules Club, 1877)
File S&C 1050/1880 - Letter from the Board of Trade forwarding for transmission a copy of the Report of the Formal Investigation into the supposed loss of the sailing ship Essex with a cargo of rice, and calling attention to the improper storage of the cargo, the extreme hast with which these vessels are sometimes laden, and the nature of the ventilation
Scope & Content:
The Report of the Formal Investigation is not present in the file