Private Secretary: Applications Received by Lord Canning before Assuming Office of Governor General
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This sub-series is comprised of: two folders of papers mainly consisting of speculative letters of application for employment in India addressed to Lord or Lady Canning from various individuals, mostly received before Lord Canning took up office as Governor General of India [Mss Eur F699/1/2/12/...
Military Secretary: Registers and Indexes of Correspondence Received and Sent
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Consists of three Register volumes of letters and memoranda received and sent by the Military Secretary to the Governor General, with an index volume to the three Registers.
Military Secretary: Correspondence Received and Sent
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Letters and memoranda received and copies of letters and memoranda sent by successive Military Secretaries to the Governor General. The correspondence is between the Military Secretary to the Governor General and the Secretary to the Government of India Military Department, between the Military ...
Volumes of copy letters sent on behalf of Charles Canning by the Military Secretary. The volumes are arranged into three series of 'Public', 'Demi-Official', and 'Private' letters. They are sent primarily from Government House, Calcutta, but also from Allahabad in 1858.
Series of correspondence from the Military Secretary's Office that remained unregistered and unanswered for a period of time. The section of 'Arrear Correspondence' appears to have been an attempt to deal with accumulated backlogs in the Military Secretary's Office. Material is arranged by Regis...
Military Secretary: Miscellaneous Letters to the Governor General
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Series of miscellaneous letters to the Governor General, handled by the Military Secretary. They are recorded as 144 items in the Register Book, and indexed alphabetically by correspondent in the Index Book. Many of the letters include letters of introduction or testimonials for individuals, and ...
Military Secretarys: Papers on Miscellaneous Subjects
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Series of miscellaneous papers, manuscript and printed, on a variety of military matters, including extensive material relating to the Reorganisation of the Army, filed in the Military Secretary's Office. Each item, no. 1-786, is numbered but often comes with additional enclosures and supporting...
Military Secretary: Papers on Special Subjects from the 'Feroze'
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Series of 'Special Papers', housed on board the ship 'Feroze' during Charles Canning's return voyage to England. Consists primarily of papers relating to Army reform. Mss Eur F699/1/3/8/1-3: Papers relating to the Amalgamation of the Indian and European Armies. These papers were removed from th...
Copies of Governor General's minutes, correspondence, dispatches and memorandums, on Military subjects, numbered 1-95, with index. For set of Charles Canning's copies of the Minutes of the Governor General in Council see also Mss Eur F699/1/1/6.