The DIARY must, for the present, be considered as an official document, which may be perused, but cannot be published, wholly or in part, without the sanction of Government previously obtained.*
Lucknow, 1852.
* This permission was accorded by the Honourable Court of Directors in December last.
[Transcriber's note: Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by W. H. Sleeman 2nd Ed. 1915, p.xxxvi notes that the date of the permission was not December 1851, but December 1852.]
CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
[Biographical Sketch of Major-General Sir W. H. Sleeman, K.C.B.]
[Private correspondence preceding the Journey through the Kingdom of Oude]