Mss Eur F126/84, ff 40-47

Correspondence with the Governor of Bombay, Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse:

• Letter from Sir Philip Wodehouse, Parell, to Sir Lewis Pelly, 1 December 1874, regarding an alternative solution for Baroda, to include: Colonel Robert Phayre being removed from his post and replaced by someone appointed by the Governor of Bombay; and examination into the state of affairs be undertaken and a report produced for the Government of India on the present condition and possible future improvements. The letter goes on to state that Sir Philip would abide by the Government of India's decision and await from them further explanation of their views.
• Record of an interview with Sir Philip Wodehouse, Governor of Bombay, 30 November 1874. The interview discussed Wodehouse's vexation with the turn of events; Pelly's instructions (from the Government of India) to endeavour to smooth matters with him; the Governor's regrets that Colonel Robert Phayre was publically disgraced, and Pelly's response that the Viceroy did not wish to injure Phayre further than the public interest rendered and that there would be no objection to his being re-employed in a military capacity; the Governor's concern over Bombay's status with regards to native states; alleged delays in the forwarding of correspondence to Calcutta, and that the correspondence in question was not intended to be forwarded at all; the failure to appoint a new Resident at the end of the Commission; and the failure of the Bombay Government to issue an emphatic disproval of Colonel Phayre's actions which resulted in the Government of India being uninformed on matters that would have proved material relation to the deposition of the Gaekwar of Baroda (ff. 43-46).