Destruction of East India Company records by the India Office.

(1) pp. i-xxi, Index (incomplete). (2) pp. 1-661, Papers relating to the destruction of useless Records in the India Office 12th Nov. 1858 to 27th Jan. 1881. See William Foster's Guide to the India Office Records. pp. vi-vii, for an account of the destruction of Records in 1858-60. The Committee for examining the Papers consisted of Messrs. T. N. Waterfield (in charge of the Cannon Row Office Records), Christopher Waud (Book Office Registrar), Mark Napier (Chief Clerk in the Correspondence Department) and [Sir] John William Kaye (Political Secretary). Besides original letters from the Committee and the Secretary of State, the volume contains a number of original letters from Alex. Allen 24th Nov. 1859 (p. 77), Saxe Bannister 15th April 1859 (p. 71), Henry Bohn 29th Feb. 1860 (p. 169), Sir George Clerk 20th Feb. 1860 (p. 97), C. Crawfurd 23rd May 1860 (p. 299), C. W. Fletcher 20th Feb. 1860 (p. 125), George Friend 3rd Dec. 1860 (p. 353), Sir John William Kaye 25th Feb. 1860 (p. 161), H. S. Lawford 6th March 1860 (p. 185), Mark Napier 13th March 1860 (p. 205), Charles Prinsep (Superintendent of Records) 1st Oct. 1873 (p. 657), W. Noel Sainsbury 3rd April 1860 (p. 237), Thomas H. Saunders 13th March 1860 (p. 201), Col. J. Smith (Chief Engineer, Madras Irrigation and Canals) 3rd May 1861 (p. 357), James Spicer 6th March 1860 (p. 187), Lord Stanley (Secretary of State for India) -- Feb. 1860 (p. 93), Gerald C. Talbot 22nd May 1860 (p. 297), T. N. Waterfield 12th Feb. 1860 (p. 89), Christopher Waud (Registrar) 14th Feb. 1860 (p. 101), Sir Charles Wood (Secretary of State) 11th Feb. 1860 (p. 81), also, pp. 187-8, James Spicer's Bond for £1,000 to destroy all Papers sold to him without disclosure of their contents (dated 6th March 1860).

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