First two pages are jottings of names of consorts of the Argylls. Murders and polygamy: some actions of Ranald MacDonald 1st of Benbecula, who died in 1636, from the General Register of Hornings, Edinburgh.
Entire bundle is wrapped within a printed memo, presumably for the perusal of the Cabinet, dating from after 7 Feb 1872, concerning the appointment of the auditorship of the home accounts of the Indian Gov
5 Nov 1871: Lowe: Sets out reasons for his belief that the appointment of the auditorship of the home accounts of the Indian Gov should rest with Chancellor of the Exchequer rather than Sec of State for India
5 Nov 1871: Lowe: Copy of letter above
7 Nov 1871: Argyll to Gladstone: copy of letter in which Argyll sets out his countervailing reasons for believing appointment should lie with the Sec of State
7 Nov 1871: Argyll to Lowe: on auditor question – ‘The position is anomalous, I admit, whichever way you take it. But so are all our relations with India, and all our machinery for administering it’
10 Nov 1871: Gladstone: Auditor question: takes A’s view of the matter
10 Nov 1871: Lowe: Auditor question: will listen to Gladstone’s view of the matter, but is unwilling to be bound by it
10 Nov 1871: Argyll to Lowe: Auditor question
11 Nov 1871: Halifax: Auditor question: fears that appointment lies with Chancellor of the Exchequer; Education of Muslims
16 Nov 1871: Lowe: Auditor question: convinced in his view that he alone possesses power of appointment
16 Nov 1871: Halifax: Auditor question
21 Nov 1871: Halifax: Auditor question: confirms that he holds to his former view
21 Nov 1871: Argyll to Lowe: copy of letter concerning auditor question
26 Nov 1871: Halifax: Auditor question; Recommendation of Sir L Mallet for the Council
20 Dec 1871: Lowe: Recommends Mr Blackwood for position of auditor
20 Dec 1871: Lowe: Copy of letter above
21 Dec 1871: Merivale: Auditor question
21 Dec 1871: Argyll to Lowe: Auditor question
22 Dec 1871: Lowe : Auditor question: refuses to refer it to Cabinet
23 Dec 1871: Benthall: Auditor question
24-25 Dec 1871: Argyll to Queen Victoria: draft letter concerning auditor question and asking her to withhold her warrant for present
24 Dec 1871: Argyll to Queen Victoria: copy letter of above
25 Dec 1871: Argyll to Queen Victoria: copy letter of above
25 Dec 1871: Argyll to Lowe: Auditor question
25 Dec 1871: Argyll: Copy of letter above
25 Dec1871: Ponsonby: Confirms that Queen will withhold warrant until she hears from Gladstone
25 Dec 1871: Ponsonby to Gladstone: copy of letter confirming Queen’s withholding of warrant
27 Dec 1871: Lowe: Auditor question
27 Dec 1871: Halifax: Governorship of Madras; Auditor question. [1 enclosure - letter from Childers concerning appointment]
27 Dec 1871: Gladstone to Queen Victoria: Auditor question
27 Dec 1871: Gladstone: Auditor question: ‘Lowe really has not a leg to stand upon’; Life of Lee
28 Dec 1871: Gurdon: Auditor question
30 Dec 1871: Merivale: Auditor question: provides snippet from Hansard in support of Argyll’s case
4 Jan 1872: Halifax: Auditor question
5 Jan 1872: Broughton (Chancellor of the Exchequer’s private sec) to Benthall: pension list and auditor question
6 Jan 1872: Merivale: Auditor question and payment of pensions
Jan 1872: Sir Erskine Perry: Memo on clauses of 1858 Gov of India act concerning the counter-signature of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Jan 1872: Lowe: Printed Cabinet memo on auditor question
9 Jan 1872: Argyll: Printed Cabinet memo on auditor question
10 Jan 1872: Lowe: Auditor question and will defer signing pension warrant
11 Jan 1872: Sir E Perry: Auditor question
12 Jan 1872: Argyll: Printed Cabinet memo on countersignatures by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Indian acts
15 Jan 1872: Broughton to Benthall: Auditor question
16 Jan 1872: Broughton to Benthall: Auditor question
17 Jan 1872: Benthall to Broughton: Auditor question
22 Jan 1872: Lowe: Auditor question
24 Jan 1872: Argyll: Memo concerning countersignatures of Chancellor of the Exchequer
24 Jan 1872: Argyll: Memo concerning countersignatures of Chancellor of the Exchequer
28 Jan 1872: Argyll to Grant Duff: Auditor question
30 Jan 1872: Lowe: Proposes Mr Blackwood as auditor
31 Jan 1872: Argyll to Lowe: Auditor question – says Lowe’s actions are contrary to the decision of the Cabinet which deemed the appointment of the auditor to lie with the Sec of State
1 Feb 1872: Lowe: Auditor question – explains that ‘deadlock’ has been reached in that, whilst Cabinet recognised the right of Argyll to present the nomination to the Queen alone, it did not give him the sole right to choose the person to be nominated
2 Feb 1872: Argyll to Lowe: Auditor question
2 Feb 1872: Argyll: Memo on auditor question
3 Feb 1872: Hartington: Auditor question
[undated]: Lord Chancellor: Auditor question
[undated]: [Cabinet member]: Auditor question – part of letter missing
6 Feb 1872: Argyll to Lowe: Auditor question
6 Feb 1872: C. Rivers Wilson to Benthall: returns pension warrant countersigned by Mr Lowe
6 Feb 1872: Argyll to Lowe: proposes Mr Drummond for office of auditor
6 Feb 1872: Lowe: Objects to Drummond’s nomination
7 Feb 1872: Argyll to Lowe: Auditor question – ‘I must therefore conclude from the correspondence to which you refer to me, either that you will object to every candidate named by me: or that you will object to every man who has been in either the Civil or Military Services of State’
24 Feb 1872: Gladstone: Question as to whether he will serve as arbiter in the auditor question
26 Feb 1872: West? to Benthall: Lowe will accept no arbiter
29 Apr 1872: Argyll to Lowe: Suggests Sir C. Jackson as nominee for auditor
9 Feb 1874: Liet.-Col. A. Strange: Application for post of Permanent Under-Sec of State for India
9 Feb 1874: Maine to Lord Halifax: Application for post of Permanent Under-Sec of State for India
10 Feb 1874: Algernon West: Application for post of Permanent Under-Sec of State for India. [1 enclosure - Argyll’s response to letter, 16 Feb. 1874]
10 Feb 1874: Sir Louis Mallet: Application for post of Permanent Under-Sec of State for India
10 Feb 1874: Colvin: Applications for post of Permanent Under-Sec of State for India from West and Mallet; Gauge question on Punjab Northern railway; Need for Argyll’s recommendation for honours to be given to Mr Secombe
10 Feb 1874: Mrs Romaines to Sir Henry [Rawlinson?]: requests post of Permanent Under-Sec for her husband
11 Feb 1874: Henry Danby Seymour: Application for post of Permanent Under-Sec
11 Feb 1874: Mr Claude Erskine: Application for post of Permanent Under-Sec of State for India
16 Feb 1874: Argyll to Secombe: copy letter in response to Secombe’s application for the post of permanent under-sec at the India Office
12 Dec 1868: Benthall: MS. memo regarding the attendance of secretaries of departments at the India Office – not to remain beyond 5pm unless instructed
Post Sep 1868: List of members of Indian legislative council in the United Kingdom
1 Jan 1869: Northbrook: Recommends General Balfour
Mar 1869: Argyll: MS. note on proposed clause for laying orders before parliament
9 Nov 1869: Kaye: Seeking resolution of outstanding questions between India Office and FO
Jun/Jul 1871: Foreign Office: Printed draft order in council from the Chancellor of the Exchequer in order to constitute a uniform body of Writers, transferrable as the needs of the public service may require
29 Jul 1871: C. Rivers Wilson [priv sec to Robert Lowe] to Benthall: Mr Lowe hopes that the new rules as to Writers will be adopted at the India Office
Jul 1871: Benthall: MS. memo on the India Office establishment, together with the likely effects of Lowe’s proposed alterations, and Benthall’s own views on what is wanted for the India Office
4 Aug 1871: Benthall to Wilson: Expresses Argyll’s reservations as to the applicability of certain parts of the new draft order as to Writers in connection with the India Office
14 Aug 1871: Benthall: MS. memo on proposed future arrangements of the revenue department following the death of Mr Prideaux
21 Aug 1871: Mr Phillimore: Resolves to resign following the decision to amalgamate the revenue department with that of the judicial and public following Mr Prideaux’s death
23 Aug 1871: Mr Merivale: Proposal to appoint a Chief Clerk to the revenue department
28 Aug 1871: Benthall: Forwards with remarks a memorial (not extant) signed by senior and junior clerks from the India Office against A’s proposed introduction of an outsider into the revenue department to fill roles of sec and assistant to revenue department
28 Aug 1871: Merivale: Pension arrangements for Mr Phillimore, and the arrangements for filling up the office
30 Aug 1871: Merivale: Forwards office memorial described above, objecting to the proposed introduction of an outsider into the revenue department. [3 enclosures - said memorial, plus two notes from Benthall concerning the memo of Stafford Northcote referred to in the memorial]
28 Aug 1871: John S. Oliphant [clerk of India Office] to Benthall: Forwards copy of office memorial described above
1 Sep [1871]: H.L. Anderson to Merivale: Offers suggestions to possible rearrangements of office -recommends amalgamation of the public and judicial departments, as not enough to keep two assistants occupied and then recommends personnel for various offices
2 Sep 1871: Merivale: Concerning a letter in The Times referring to the proposals for alterations in the revenue department of the India Office
5 Sep 1871: Merivale: Sends apology from Mt Philipps, junior clerk, for the letter to The Times
30 Oct 1871: Junior clerks of India Office: MS. memorial objecting to the promotion of only one clerk from the junior to senior class when 5 retirements are to take place. [2 enclosures: statements showing the names, ages and service of all junior and senior clerks in the correspondence department, and a note by Benthall with remarks on the same]
1 Nov 1871: Mr Markham: Request to be transferred to the revenue department
15 Nov 1871: Grant Duff: Retirement and proposed pension for Mr Forsyth; Case of Mr Shadwell’s possible retirement. [1 enclosure concerning Mr Forsyth]
17 Nov 1871: Mr Forsyth: Appeals against his proposed dismissal and pension
20 Nov 1871: Merivale: Difficulties connected with Mr Forsyth’s case
Nov 1871: MS. statement showing the financial results of the rearrangements made in office
23 Jul 1872: Sir J Kaye/Mr Thornton: On appointment of Mr Secombe as Assistant Under-Sec of State for India
24 Jul 1872: Grant Duff: Expressing doubts as to Argyll’s proposed letter to Kaye and Thornton concerning Secombe’s appointment – A has made annotations in red ink: ‘Kaye and Thornton have no right to demand such explanations but I always think it wise to treat men in a conciliatory spirit when they even think they have grounds of complaint’
24 Jul 1872: Benthall: Concerning Grant Duff’s letter described above and the appointment of Mr Secombe
25 Jul 1872: Argyll to Kaye: copy letter concerning Secombe’s appointment – Argyll has marked up the draft with red annotations, presumably in response to Grant Duff’s reservations (see above)
26 Jul 1872: Mr Thornton: On appointment of Mr Secombe
26 Jul 1872: Argyll to Thornton: copy letter concerning Secombe’s appointment – ‘Selection and not seniority is the principle of all appointments in this office. This ought to be a reality and not a name. No man is a judge in his own case; and, therefore, I hold that those who do not happen to be selected cannot complain because they are not considered as the fittest for any appointment…I think you ought no more to be aggrieved at this than I ought to be aggrieved if I were told that, though fit for the India Office, I am not so well fitted for the Home Office – which would be quite true’
27 Jul 1872: Mr Secombe to Benthall: Service and salary of Establishment Clerks and Extra Clerks under the East India Company
10 Oct 1873: Grant Duff: Agricultural and Commercial department; Case of Mr Elliott
29 Dec 1873: Merivale: Question as to whether Sir F Currie’s dissent to the railway gauge despatch of 20 Nov. 1873 need be recorded
12 Jan 1874: Merivale: Power of members of Legislative Council to record dissents
9 Feb 1874: Argyll: Memo on his opinion of the proposals recommended by the Committee on the Revenue Department esp. concerning the amalgamation of the Revenue and Judicial secretariat
A chart of the Islands of Orkney with the adjacent part of the coast of Scotland. Surveyed and accurately delineated by George Eunson, Kirkwall. Published 5 Apr 1790.
A chart of the Islands of Orkney with the adjacent part of the coast of Scotland. Surveyed and accurately delineated by George Eunson, Kirkwall. Published 5 Apr 1790.
A chart of the Islands of Orkney with the adjacent part of the coast of Scotland. Surveyed and accurately delineated by George Eunson, Kirkwall. Published 5 Apr 1790.
A chart of the Islands of Orkney with the adjacent part of the coast of Scotland. Surveyed and accurately delineated by George Eunson, Kirkwall. Published 5 Apr 1790.
A copy of the famous Craignish MSS, bringing the history down to the Crimean War [c1854]. Annotation adds that it is verbatim identical with the typewritten copy given to the 10th Duke by Campbell of Barbreck in 1907 “but in the latter the placenames are far more correctly spelt”.
