Item HAMILTON, ISM 1/3/3 - Correspondence with India while Commander-in-Chief in Madras, 1881-1885, volume 3 by General Sir Frederick Roberts

Correspondence with India while Commander-in-Chief in Madras, 1881-1885, volume 3 (Government Central Printing Office, Simla, 1890) of Gen Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts,Commander-in-Chief, India, comprising letters on army administration in India, including to the Rt Hon Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant-Duff, Governor of Madras, on the establishment of an intelligence branch of the Quarter Master General's department at Ootacamund, 9 Mar 1882 and on the Russian threat to Afghanistan, 1 Dec 1883; to Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, Lieutenant Governor of North Western Provinces, proposing that ambitious Indian troops should enter the Indian Civil Service than seek higher military office, 24 Sept 1884; to Gen Sir Donald Martin Stewart, Bt, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill and FM George William Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge, on Roberts succeeding Stewart as Commander-in-Chief, India, 26 Jul 1885; memorandum of his proposal for a fortified site at Secunderabad, 15 Apr 1882; memorandum on the potential use of machine guns, 25 Jan 1885. 2 copies, 2 vols