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181. Mss Eur F231/13/21

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/13/21
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Acknowledges Vernon Smith's letter of 9 May; explains inability to give Govt of India's opinion on Plowden's salt report by close of parliamentary session; suggests Directors should purchase one or two vessels from Admiralty suitable for suppression of piracy in the Straits.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jun 1856
Extent:
1 item

182. Mss Eur F231/13/29

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/13/29
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Refers to Secret Committee's Despatch of 10 July (received 13 August); arms and money have been sent to Dost Muhammad; too dangerous to send English officers to Herat; an officer will visit Dost if latter desires it; importance of not embarrassing Dost with his own people by appearance of too muc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Aug 1856
Extent:
1 item

183. Mss Eur F231/13/40

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/13/40
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
[Refers to Vernon Smith's letter of 26 September]; no fear of caste feelings being excited by new Enlistment Regulation which applies only to new recruits; recruits to Bombay Army already enlist for general service; no sign of suspicions among existing recruits that they may be compelled to cross...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Nov 1856
Extent:
1 item

184. Mss Eur F231/13/44

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/13/44
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
No news from Persian Gulf; Amir on way to Peshawar; refers to Vernon Smith's comments on policy towards Afghanistan in letter of 10 November; views of Sir J Lawrence, Col (Sir) H Edwardes (Commissioner of Peshawar), Col (Sir) James Abbott (Commissioner of Hazara 1845-53), and Canning himself on p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item

185. Mss Eur F231/13/45

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/13/45
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Refers to Vernon Smith's letter of 10 November; police scheme and need to adapt any such scheme to character of community affected by it; inclines more and more to uniformity of Government in India, but not for police; complains that 'crush of current work is something beyond conception'; problem...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item

186. Mss Eur F231/3, p74

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/3, p74
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Comments on preview of financial despatch; permission to borrow £1 million for public works insufficient to allow commencement of any new works; Canning is pleased he has at having begun to reduce spending; further comments on mainly technical details; thinks Indian accounts would benefit from ad...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jul 1856
Extent:
1 item

187. Mss Eur F231/3, p120

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/3, p120
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Preparations for Persian campaign; comments on Maj-Gen Stalker; good policy to keep aloof from entanglement in Afghanistan with Amir's death approaching.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Sep 1856
Extent:
1 item

188. Mss Eur F231/4, p45

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/4, p45
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Question of conferring Admiralty jurisdiction upon Indian courts; as regards question of amalgamation of jurisdictions, Canning has no objection to Vernon Smith legislating on that in Parliament; progress on Codes of Civil and Criminal Procedure and Penal Code; Peacock's hard work on latter; slow...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item

189. Mss Eur F231/4, p167

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/4, p167
Title:
Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:
Policy towards Afghanistan where he considers British interests are best served if it is disunited; approves despatch of native troops (who are more suited to the climate than Europeans) to Singapore and Hong Kong; cartridge affair; hopes Anson will now be convinced that 'superstition'of sepoys i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1857
Extent:
1 item

190. Mss Eur F231/5, p88

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/5, p88
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Re-organisation of Native Army following suppression of mutiny will require someone with experience of sepoys, and Canning therefore proposes that Grant's acting appointment as C-in-C be made permanent, or at least that he should remain in acting appointment for some time.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jun 1857
Extent:
1 item