Cutting from The Homeward Mail with article entitled, "Russia and India" voicing concerns regarding Russia's intentions towards India. Hodgson has added his own title. Dated 3 February 1873.

Cutting from The Times with letter entitled "England and Russian in Asia" by A Frontier Officer concerning Central Asian affairs. Hodgson has added his own title. Dated 9 February 1873.

Cutting from The Times with letter entitled "England and Russian in Asia" by F.W. Lambert in response to the letter of A Frontier Officer concerning Central Asian affairs. Dated 12 February 1873.

Cutting from The Times with letter, "The Central Asian Question" by H.W. Raverty which Hodgson has entitled "Ways to invade India". Date 28 February 1873.

Cutting from The Times with article entitled, "Commerce with Central Asia" concerning a discussion held on the topic at the Society of Arts. Hodgson has added some annotations. Dated 15 March 1873.

Cutting from the Daily News entitled, "England and Central Asia" reporting on a paper by Mr Robert B. Shaw at the Society for Arts Indian conference on "the important and dangerous enterprise of penetrating through Cashmere and Thibet to Yarkand". Dated 15 March 1873.

Cutting from The Times with letter entitled, "The Retreat from Afghanistan" by George At. F. Lawrence, writing in his capacity as one of the few survivors of the original expedition of 1839 into Afghanistan. He lays out his views of the current situation and suggests a full Trigonometrical Survey. Dated 9 April 1873.

Cutting from The Times with article entitled, "Trade with Central Asia" concerning the deputation form the Society of Arts to the Duke of Argyll, with Sir Louis Mallet in attendance concerning commercial intercourse in Central Asia. Date 26 April 1873.

Cutting from the Pall Mall Budget with article entitled, "Indian Affairs" concerning army operations in India. Hodgson has added his own title "Geography & Commerce of Frontier States". Date May 1873.

Cutting from The Spectator with a book review for the "History of the Indian Administration of Lord Ellenborough in his Correspondence with the Duke of Wellington, Edited by Lord Colchester". Hodgson has added his own title and some annotations. Dated 16 May 1874.