[ The Imperial Institute, London. ] Galley proofs of address by W. Martin Wood, with manuscript heading: 'On occasion of the reading of a paper on "the Imperial Institute & its advantages to India" by General Sir Orfeur Cavenagh K.C.S.I. [...]'.
Printed in a single column on one side of a piece of 64 x 15 cm piece of paper. Aged and worn, with a couple of holes at head causing loss to eight lines of text. Full heading in manuscript: 'On occasion of the reading of a paper on "the Imperial Institute & its advantages to India" by General Sir Orfeur Cavenagh K.C.S.I. before the East India Association. Sir Richard Temple in the chair'. Wood is responding to a speech by Cavenagh, and begins by commenting: 'I take it that the chief service that the General thinks the Imperial Institute will render in India will be that of providing a sort of permanent advertisement of the products and manufactures of our Eastern Empire, and thereby attract European skill, energy, and capital.' His assertion that the General also states, 'by way of contrast', that 'the recent Colonial and Indian Exhibition [held in 1886] has been quite ephemeral in its effects', causes an interruption by Cavenagh. Wood then continues on his way, with reference to the 'Imperial Gazetteer', Dr. Watt, Dr. Blaney, the Sir Evelyn Baring, Sir Roper Lethbridge, 'The Native Opinion' of Bombay, and 'The Pioneer'. Wood had been editor of the Times of India and the Bombay Review.