| Description | The subjects of this correspondence include : the Universities of Calcutta and Dacca, terrorists' use of the French settlement at Chandernagore as a base for operations, the Hindustani Fanatics, army recruiting, village self government, land tenure, the Press Act, appointments of Civil servants and judges, the Montague Chelmsford reform proposals, railways, finance and budgets, internment policies, settlement camps and the education of internees, Government personnel, the cotton trade, Muslim agitation, destitution of the Russian vice consul after the Bolshevik Revolution, precedence and honours (especially repeated requests from the Maharaja of Tripura), yellow fever quarantine, the Rowlatt Commission, Cecil Polhill's request for permission to travel to Tibet, Gandhi and the civil disobedience campaign, newspaper censorship, the attitude of Indian Moslems towards the Sultan of Turkey and the peace terms imposed on Turkey, Muslim prophecies, drainage and sanitary legislation, Kidderpore Docks, Calcutta aerodrome
About 120 letters, March 1917 January 1922 many marked "Confidential", "Personal" or "Secret". The Viceroys' letters are all originals and Lord Ronaldshay's are carbon copies
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