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431. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/4
Title:
3. Letter from Lord Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Sends a letter from Mr Murray [not enclosed] and a letter from Mr Stevens, the Consul at Teheran with comments. Captain Kemball thinks the Shah intended to invade Baghdad if the war had continued, and if his advances were favourably received at St Petersburg. Describes some Persian intrigues at ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1856
Extent:
2 items

432. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/5
Title:
4. Letter from Lord Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Gives his opinion of Colonel Cameron; he is an active sharp fellow, but very conceited. Cameron was in Georgia and Circassia when Lord Clanricarde was Ambassador at St Petersburg, Canning could obtain information from Clanricarde. Elphinstone has written to Vernon Smith and Lord Clarendon, and t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1856
Extent:
1 item

433. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/6

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/6
Title:
5. Letter from Lord Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
States that ever since he has been at Bombay, there has been trouble with the Persian Government. He has been constantly told to send steamers to Bushire, but fears this kind of demonstration has now lost its effect. It would be easy to blockade the whole Persian Coast, but this would do more ha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1856
Extent:
9 items

434. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/7

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/7
Title:
5a. Letter from Lord Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Writes appreciatively of Canning's frank and friendly letters. Elphinstone explains why he defended Mr Erskine's proposals. He believes that a man who is to teach and train schoolmasters, even for village schools and elementary classes, should be a man of very superior ability and attainments, a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1856
Extent:
1 item

435. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/8

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/8
Title:
6. Letter from Lord Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Regrets that he has not yet been able to send the Despatches to Mr Stevens at Teheran, as the Madras Government has detained the Assaye and no other steamer is available. The Victoria should come in shortly from Kurrachee and will carry the Despatches. The news of the surrender of Herat telegrap...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1856
Extent:
1 item

436. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/9

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/9
Title:
7. Letter from Lord Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
He is glad to find that Lord Canning approves of the way in which the Bombay budget of public works has been prepared. Regrets that the Court has managed to stop all the public works not actually commenced, as Elphinstone was going to ask for some experienced engineer or engineers to survey the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1856
Extent:
1 item

437. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/10

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/10
Title:
8. Letter from Lord Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Forwards a letter from Colonel Jacob [not enclosed] and suggests that it is not expedient to tie the hands of experienced officers like Jacob too closely. In the present instance Elphinstone considers that Colonel Jacob acted hastily in dismissing Mahomed Yussuf's messenger. Elphinstone does not...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jun 1856
Extent:
1 item

438. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/11

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/11
Title:
9. Letter from Lord Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Returns thanks for a letter from Canning, and for the Minute on Dost Mahomed's letters. Nothing seems to have been decided in England about Persia. Negotiations have opened at Constantinople for the settlement of Murray's affair, though without much hope of success. The Foreign Office had no def...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jun 1856
Extent:
1 item

439. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/12

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/12
Title:
10. Letter from Lord Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Reports the arrival of Despatches from Bushire and letters from the Consul at Teheran, with comments. Enclosed: 1. Letter from Mr Stevens, Consul at Teheran, to Lord Elphinstone, 12 May, acknowledges receipt of Elphinstone's letter about the possibility of peace with Persia. Stevens thinks that...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jun 1856
Extent:
5 items

440. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/13

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/13
Title:
11. Letter from Lord Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Writes that he has already sent Canning a message from Lord Granville, that there had been a hitch, but that Talbot would come by the next mail. Encloses some papers from Murray. Vernon Smith is puzzled at the different accounts received from Teheran. Lord Clarendon has telegraphed Lord Stratfor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1856
Extent:
4 items