Item HAMILTON, ISM 1/3/5 - Correspondence in India while Commander-in-Chief in India, 1885-1888, volume 10, by General Sir Frederick Roberts

Correspondence in India while Commander-in-Chief in India, 1885-1888, volume 10 (Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1890) of Gen Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts,Commander-in-Chief, India, comprising letters and telegrams on army administration in India, including to Maj Gen Sir John Irvine Murray, querying the request of 1 Bn 1 Gurkhas to change their red uniform to green, 18 May 1886; to Lt Gen Sir Herbert Taylor Macpherson, Commander-in-Chief, Madras, suggesting the Madras Army to be inferior in physique and courage to Gurkha and Sikh troops, 21 Sep 1886; to Maj Gen George Stuart White, on the potential use of troops in Burma to reinforce Afghanistan against the Russians, 6 Jun 1887; to Lt Gen Sir Charles George Arbuthnot, Commander-in-Chief, Madras, on the replacement of Snider rifles with Martini-Henry rifles for three Madras regiments, 24 Nov 1887; to Lt Gen Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Commander-in-Chief, Bombay, with Roberts' concerns of resistance by British officers to attempts to raise the educational standard and social position of Indian officers, 7 Feb 1888, and on the desirability of a unified 'army corps system' with local commanders-in-chief placed in a direct line of command under the Commander-in-Chief, India, and abolition of the Presidential commands, 27 May 1888. 2 copies, 2 vols