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11. Mss Eur F83/2, f105v

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/2, f105v
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Laing is to leave very soon; Elgin will have lost Frere, Beadon, Ritchie and Laing from Council, and gained (Sir) William Grey (Home Member) who 'was not less useful as Secretary'; question of Laing's successor – Elgin comments on relative merits of appointing outsider from Home such as Wilson a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 May 1862-16 May 1862
Extent:
1 item

12. Mss Eur F83/2, f113v

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/2, f113v
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Laing goes home this mail on leave for medical reasons, and Elgin will leave it to him to explain measures for introduction of paper currency; comments on Laing and hopes he will return; in meantime Elgin will obtain insight into Finance Dept the better to assess Laing's schemes in future; last i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 May 1862
Extent:
1 item

13. Mss Eur F83/2, f117v

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/2, f117v
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Does not trouble Wood with every report of disaffection he receives, but encloses one from Lt-Governor of North-Western Provinces; considers it right that everything affecting public mind should be monitored, but inexpedient that British should 'appear in the eyes of the natives fussy or frighte...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jun 1862-4 Jun 1862
Extent:
1 item

14. Mss Eur F83/2, f123v

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/2, f123v
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Encloses report from (Sir) George Yule (Chief Commissioner of Oudh) on 'curious state of matters' there; he receives anonymous letters from time to time that his bodyguard is not to be trusted; Canning disarmed the bodyguard and had a European guard at night; latter is now dispensed with and Indi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jun 1862
Extent:
1 item

15. Mss Eur F83/2, f130v

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/2, f130v
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Persons who have been 'trading on the fears of the people in Oude' are beginning to be detected, and Elgin has urged that every effort should be made to seize and punish them; is disgusted with 'military panic mongers' in the North West; notes folly of discussing, e.g. poisoning of Europeans (cur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jun 1862
Extent:
1 item

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