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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/62
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: Batteries of Royal Artillery which were to have been sent to India will now not be.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 11 Apr 1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/63
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: Lawrence has taken his seat in Council – missionary party's hopes to monopolise him; is under pressure to appoint Sanitary Commission to investigate mortality of European troops in India and will probably do so if Sidney Herbert will Chair it; probability of European war will increase readiness t...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18 Apr 1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/64
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: [Refers to Canning's letters of 2 and 8 March]; problem of filling Law membership of Canning's Council; Canning's emphasis on need for lawyer in Council has led him to modify intention of sending financier as fourth member of Council; describes type of person needed - someone who capable of givin...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18 Apr 1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/65
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: Refers to Canning's financial letter of 16 March (1); £7 million loan, with railway money, should be enough for India's immediate needs; generally favourable reaction in England to new Indian customs duties; is advised tobacco duty is inexpedient; Lowe has declined membership of Canning's Council...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 25 Apr 1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/66
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: Refers to Canning's letters of 18, 20 and 21 March; Harris's case; has asked Lord Chancellor to bear in mind deserving Indian chaplains for promotion to English livings; broadly agrees with Canning's approach to compensation claims and has communicated his letter to Finance Committee of Council o...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 3 May 1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/67
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: Lawrence's views on method of garrisoning Delhi and on advisability of giving up Peshawar valley to Afghanistan; on latter point, Stanley sees strength of his arguments but feels 'extreme difficulty of inducing England to accede to them, or India not to misunderstand them'.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 3 May 1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/68
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: Membership of Uncovenanted Civil Service in India does not automatically confer gentlemanly status.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 May 1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/69
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: [Refers to Canning's letter of 2 April (1)]; Notes attack on Davidson and possible delay in sending home one regiment.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 8 May 1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/70
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: [Refers to Canning's letter of 18 March (1), and 20 March]; no complaints in Parliament regarding equipping of new European cavalry regiments; with approval of C-in-C has submitted request to Queen for three local Regiments to be styled 'Royal'.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 8 May 1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/71
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: [Refers to Canning's letter of 2 April]; thinks Frere is best candidate for Canning's Council, but hesitates to remove him from present post (Chief Commissioner in Sind) where he is doing so well.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 8 May 1859
Extent:: 1 item

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