Item HAMILTON, ISM 1/3/4 - Correspondence with England while Commander-in-Chief in Madras, 1881-1885, volume 2, by General Sir Frederick Roberts

Correspondence with England while Commander-in-Chief in Madras, 1881-1885, volume 2 (Government Central Printing Office, Simla, 1890) of Gen Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Commander-in-Chief, India, including letters to the Rt Hon Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, Secretary of State for War, on the need to improve the status and prospects of non-commissioned officers, 20 Feb 1882; to FM George William Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge, on the report of the Army Commission regarding reorganization of the command structure in India, 28 Feb 1882; to I Nordenfelt, on the suitability of machine guns for defensive purposes, 11 Aug 1884; to FM Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala, on reforms undertaken to improve the Madras Army, 10 Oct 1884; to Edward Robert Bulwer, 1st Earl of Lytton, on the threat of Russia seizing Herat, Afghanistan, 11 Jun 1885. 2 copies, 2 vols