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81. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/13/55

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/13/55
Title:
37a. Letter from Lord Harris
Scope & Content:
Thanks Canning for his kind and affectionate letter and for his advice. Harris' time is up in April, the changes he advocated have all been recognised and adopted in principle, though there have been great delays in carrying them out. Describes a short tour he is about to make. If he finds the h...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1858
Extent:
1 item

82. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/13/60

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/13/60
Title:
42. Letter from Lord Harris
Scope & Content:
Replies to Canning's letter by 'Pearl'. If he had realised how great the financial difficulties of Government were, some of the applications sent up by the Madras Government would have been withheld. Writes about the 'Punjaub' (marked in margin Telegraph Messages Sent 599, 597, 601, 602) If Cann...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1859
Extent:
1 item

83. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/13/78

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/13/78
Title:
56a. Letter from Sir William Denison
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Has recommended that Military Establishments for the whole of India should be one of the special reservations which should be made, if the Presidencies were allowed to legislate in local matters for themselves. Discusses military arrangements. Begins with the premise that India must be held by t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1861
Extent:

1 item

84. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/13/94

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/13/94
Title:
71. Letter from Sir William Denison
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Has discussed the projected cinchona plantation with Anderson, who thinks Darjeeling more suitable than the Neilgherries. Denison thinks the Neilgherries experiment worth trying. Believes Canning has misunderstood his remarks about the Nizam, he is aware that the Nizam is theoretically an indepe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1862
Extent:

1 item

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

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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

86. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/17

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/17
Title:
15. Letter from Lord Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Sends a memorandum from Sir Henry Somerset. Elphinstone thinks it will be difficult to send the 3rd Light Cavalry from Rajkote and embark them at Poorbundee. It is perhaps well that Somerset does not propose to send any of the Sind Horse, if Jacob's plan is likely to be adopted. The 78th Highlan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1856
Extent:
2 items

87. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/21

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/21
Title:
19. Letter from Lord Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Sends abstracts of the Secret Despatches, thinking they might reach Canning a few days sooner than the originals by the steamer. Vernon Smith thinks that there is little doubt that an expedition will be sent to the Gulf, Elphinstone is to be fully prepared to send a force capable of capturing Ka...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Aug 1856
Extent:
2 items

88. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/24

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/24
Title:
22. Letter from Lord Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Writes to explain the inconsistency between his last two letters and his telegraph asking for three steamers of the Indian Navy and a Despatch asking for three additional steamers belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company. When Elphinstone last wrote he believed the Force would require a ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1856
Extent:
1 item

89. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/35

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/35
Title:
33. Letter from Lord Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Writes that some letters from Captain Wray, Assistant Quarter Master General who was sent to Bushire on the 'Feroze', confirm the unfavourable view of Captain Jones' conduct in ordering the officers back to Bassadore. When the 'Feroze' arrived Jones was away at a country house, but on his return...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Oct 1856
Extent:
1 item

90. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/36

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/36
Title:
34. Letter from Lord Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Regrets the delay in preparing the Expedition, part of the trouble is the Dewallee holidays. Elphinstone is glad that Sir Henry Leeke will take command, Ethersey cannot feel jealous that he is superseded. The Accountant General's letter from which the estimate of the expenses of the Expedition w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Oct 1856
Extent:
1 item