Letter from Mrs Lawrence at Salt Hill, Monkstown, Dublin, to Mountstuart Elphinstone, enclosing a letter from Colonel Lawrence at Lahore and a letter from Moola Najeeb of Peshawar
Correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone for August to December 1847
Scope & Content:
Topics of correspondence include concerns over Mountstuart Elphinstone's health; Lord Elphinstone's appointment as Lord-in-Waiting; General Monteith's return to India (Madras) and general comments and discussion of the monetary crisis and Peel's government. Also includes several letters from John Er...
Mountstuart Elphinstone: Chiefly private correspondence with friends and relatives
Scope & Content:
Comprises the private and semi official correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone. This makes up a large part of the collection and has been arranged into four sub-series: juvenile and family correspondence; chiefly private correspondence with friends and relatives while in India; chiefly private co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Hindi, Italian, Latin, Marathi, and Persian