Correspondence with Lord Selborne (260ff.), 1855-1878

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Correspondence concerning inter alia offer of Governorship of South Australia in 1873, differences between governing crown colony and constitutional colony, appointment as Governor of Fiji, Lord Carnarvon, enjoyment of work in Fiji, finances, conflict with mountain tribes, criticisms of Blue Book on Fiji, Privy Council, judgments on Church question, Eastern question, powers of High Commissioner for Western Pacific, Colonial Office views on native rights, danger of native war, return to England in 1878, British politics, and suggestion by W.E. Gladstone that Gordon re-enter Parliament.

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