<P> On 13 March 1889 Philip Lyttelton Gell the then Secretary to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press, wrote to Hunter about </P> <P> a project which has been for some time under the consideration of the Delegates, to publish a series giving the salient features of Indian History in the Biographies of successive Generals and Administrators . </P> <P> Gell arranged the publication of the series by June 1889; with Hunter receiving £ 75 for each volume, and the author £ 25 . Gell's experience of the earlier unsaleable Sacred Books of the East and financial constraints forced the Rulers of India to end at 28 volumes in spite of Hunter's disappointment about the same . </P> <P> Hunter himself contributed the volumes on Dalhousie (1890) and Mayo (1891) to the series . </P>

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