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131. Mss Eur F83/7, f353

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/7, f353
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Discusses healthiness of various places, enclosing table of comparative mortality amongst troops in Bengal [including upper provinces]; had hoped for reduction in Commissariat; opposes fixed ratio of native to European troops; believes police 'much less dangerous' than native army and that it sho...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1862
Extent:
1 item

132. Mss Eur F83/7, f360

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/7, f360
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Duke of Cambridge (C-in-C) will give Rose hint about making grievances; Cambridge thinks native army too large; Wood thinks native army and police together 'not much less than before the mutiny'; encloses memorandum by Lord Russell (in which he concurs) on limits of British obligation to Persia t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Sep 1862
Extent:
1 item

133. Mss Eur F83/7, f363

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/7, f363
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Refers to Elgin's letter of 17 August (2): Mysore case; majority of his Council think Raja must be restored; matter is suspended and Wood is 'not sorry to waste time about it, so as to take the chance of accidents' and is 'sadly puzzled between what seems to be our honest course and my wish to se...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1862
Extent:
1 item

134. Mss Eur F83/7, f367

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/7, f367
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Refers to Elgin's letter of 17 August (2): explains opposition to appointment of Inspector General of Police; briefly states his position on control of Local Governments by Supreme Government.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1862
Extent:
1 item

135. Mss Eur F83/7, f371

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/7, f371
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Refers to Elgin's letter of 17 August (2): his views on change of seat of Government; discusses question of new Finance Member of Elgin's Council and gives reasons for appointing Trevelyan; refers to Elgin's letter of 17 August (1): confesses ignorance of Burmese affairs but, as in Afghanistan, a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1862
Extent:
1 item

136. Mss Eur F83/7, f375

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/7, f375
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Refers to Elgin's letter of 22 August; inaccuracy of Indian newspapers; his controversy with Laing; financial estimates always liable to inaccuracy 'especially in India'; thinks [Sir Herbert ?] Edwardes too 'far gone in the Exeter Hall line' for Hyderabad 'with the fanatical Mahometans in that co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Oct 1862
Extent:
1 item

137. Mss Eur F83/7, f379

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/7, f379
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Encloses papers generally supporting Home Govt's views on financial matters – English Press has approved all that Indian Press has censured; Cotton association threaten to impeach Wood - 'they are smarting under want of employment, and it is far easier to abuse me than to exert themselves'; is un...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Oct 1862
Extent:
1 item

138. Mss Eur F83/7, f396

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/7, f396
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Outlines reasons for proposing Trevelyan as Finance Member; cannot send Grey as he is a cousin of Lady Wood's.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Oct 1862
Extent:
1 item

139. Mss Eur F83/7, f399

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/7, f399
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Refers to Elgin's letter of 2 September; approves Elgin's actions regarding Assam, Nepal, Tibet and Sikkim; opium; willing to help get tramway companies started; wants limit on public works spending to arise not from prohibition by Home Govt but from constraint caused by lack of adequate administ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1862
Extent:
1 item

140. Mss Eur F83/7, f404

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/7, f404
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
[Refers to Elgin's letter of 9 September]; defends listening to information received via unofficial channels; purpose of private correspondence between Secretary of State and Viceroy; outlines his policy towards Mysore; gives his views on Dalhousie's and Canning's policies towards Indian Princes ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Oct 1862
Extent:
1 item

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