Item HAMILTON, ISM 1/3/9 - Correspondence with England while Commander-in-Chief-in-India, 1885-1887, volume 7, by General Sir Frederick Roberts

Correspondence with England while Commander in Chief-in-India, 1885-1887, volume 7 (Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1890) of Gen Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Commander-in-Chief, India, including letters to Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, Secretary of State for India, with an account of military exercises at Delhi, India, 24 Jan 1886; to Edward Robert Bulwer, 1st Earl of Lytton, on the difficulties of pursuing dacoits in Burma, 20 Nov 1886; to Gen Sir Donald Martin Stewart, Bt, on the proposals of the Defence Committee for the defence of the North West Frontier, 16 Jul 1886; to FM George William Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge, on the progress of a scheme of mobilization against potential Russian incursions in Afghanistan, 19 May 1887, and proposing the gradual British occupation of southern Afghanistan, 11 Aug 1887. 2 copies, 2 vols