The papers include: An illustration showing a camp below the Peiwar Kotal, with a list of what each letter on the illustration denotes. A copy of Field Force Orders by Lieutenant General Sir Frederick S Roberts, Kabul, date 08 August 1880. Sketches of Afghans done by a private soldier of the 72...
Letter from A Vambery, Professor of Oriental Languages in the Royal University of Budapest, regarding Afghanistan and whether Kandahar should be retained or evacuated by the British
Copy of official papers regarding Russian intrigue during the tour in India in 1886 of the Viceroy, the Earl of Dufferin, and includes a copy of a letter from Sir W White to the Marquis of Salisbury regarding Russian espionage in India
Confidential India Office Note on the relations between the Government of India and Upper Burma during the present King's Reign [Thibaw Min, King of Burma 1878-1885]
Letters from Sir Frederick Roberts regarding Afghanistan
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Includes a confidential memorandum by Frederick Roberts 'What are Russia's vulnerable points? And how have recent events affected our Afghan Frontier Policy?' dated 22 May 1885
Correspondence and papers regarding Anglo-Indian and Colonial Industrial & Commercial Institution, Limited
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Includes a copy of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Anglo-Indian and Colonial Industrial & Commercial Institution, Limited, incorporated 23 January 1882, and four letters from Lord Robert Montagu