File R 303/1881 - Reply to an enquiry of Mr T Dyer informing him that the total cost of procuring seeds of the Hevea elastic freight to India in 1877 amounted to £1505
File R 362/1881 - Responses to a complaint of Messrs. Howard, Britannia Iron Works, Bedford, regarding the construction of ploughs at the Cawnpore Government Farm
Scope & Content:
File includes printed letters showing that the manufacture and sale of ploughs at the Cawnpore Government Farm is ‘merely experimental’
File R 336/1881 - Supplemental Petition of Gangagari Gosami, the Madathipathy, the Lord of the Monastery of the Mattam at Nadiem Village in the Madras Presidency, appealing against the orders of the Madras Government in the matter of landed estates belonging to him
Scope & Content:
File includes a cutting from The Madras Mail, dated 12th May 1880, regarding the character of the Marquis of Hartington
File R 360/1881 - Results of the Agricultural Show and Cattle Fair at Wadhwán, February 1881
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of a letter from the Political Agent, Káthiáwár, No.75 giving cover to a report by Major H L Nutt, President of Wadhwán Agricultural Show, on the results of the Agricultural Show and Cattle Fair held at Wadhwán on the 10th, 11th and 12th February 1881
File R 326/1881 - Covering letter advising of the despatch of a telegram to the address of the Secretary of State for India regarding a Mr Gibson for Egypt Survey
File R 342/1881 - Papers relating to a memorial from Máha Ráwal Pratápsingji Ratansingji, Thákor of Melol in in the Panch Maháls, regarding his claim to the villages of Sejal and Gosar in the Godhra Táluka
File R 361/1881 - Papers regarding the proposed deputation of an officer of the Forest Department of India to visit the Crown Forests of Ceylon, and advise the Colonial Government as to their future management
Scope & Content:
File includes Government of India letters relating to a separate application from the Ceylon Government applying for the services of an officer of the Forest Department in India
File R 313/1881 - Annual Indent for seeds for the supply of soldiers gardens in northern India
Scope & Content:
File includes a list (undated) of vegetable seeds for soldiers’ gardens in northern India and a letter from the Superintendent of Government Botanical Gardens, North-Western Provinces, regarding the arrival of seeds too late for sowing, and the failure of a supply of pea seeds
File R 302/1881 - Draft of a letter to L J K Brace informing him that a passage to Calcutta has been secured for him on board the ss. City of Venice, sailing from Liverpool