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102. Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/5
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/5
- Title:
- Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
- Scope & Content:
- Acknowledges Canning's letter of 8 October; 'tumult here, raised strangely enough by the Saints I believe' against clemency orders is subsiding; is tempted to opt for transportation act for sepoys and awaits lawyers' opinion from India.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 16 Nov 1857
- Extent:
- 1 item
103. Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/6
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/6
- Title:
- Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
- Scope & Content:
- Refers to Canning's letter of 8 October; Directors' opinion that sailing ships would be as fast as steamers in transporting troops to India has proved wrong; noted in England that capture of Delhi achieved without troops from England; Col Ramsay; glad Canning is satisfied with financial assistanc...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 26 Nov 1857
- Extent:
- 1 item
104. Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/7
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/7
- Title:
- Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
- Scope & Content:
- Unclear as to position of Havelock and Outram at Lucknow and Alambagh; transport and commissariat and Disraeli's attacks on Govt; question of sea versus overland route for sending reinforcements; financial situation of Company; sepoys to be sent to China - Palmerston advised addition of British t...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 10 Dec 1857
- Extent:
- 1 item
105. Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/8
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/8
- Title:
- Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
- Scope & Content:
- News of relief of Lucknow; Capt Lowe's account of siege of Delhi; honours for Wilson and others, and difficulty of rewarding those who have prevented outbreaks (e.g. (Sir) Bartle Frere in Sind); has not yet received Canning's answer to petition for his recall;, encloses heads of bill for better g...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 26 Dec 1857
- Extent:
- 1 item
106. Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/9
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/9
- Title:
- Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
- Scope & Content:
- Refers to Canning's letter of 25 November; gloom at Havelock's death; procedure for recommending honours; agrees on inadvisability of giving offence to Indian religious sensibilities but opinion in England, including Times, has become extremely anti-Muslim; Canning should be very cautious on ques...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 8 Jan 1858
- Extent:
- 1 item
107. Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/10
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/10
- Title:
- Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
- Scope & Content:
- Cabinet concern regarding risk to Campbell's life and its proposals for army commands in event of his being disabled; Cabinet inclined to accept Jung Bahadur's request for return of Nepalese territory as price of his assistance, despite giving appearance of weakness; asks for estimate of number o...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 26 Jan 1858
- Extent:
- 1 item
108. Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/11
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/11
- Title:
- Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
- Scope & Content:
- Defends himself and colleagues from implication in Canning's letter of 24 December that they had not done enough to vindicate him; question of transportation of sepoys to Andamans or colonies; renewing proposal to Court of Directors regarding 'black' regiments [this time apparently to be raised i...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 9 Feb 1858
- Extent:
- 1 item
109. Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/12
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/12
- Title:
- Letter from Ellenborough to Canning
- Scope & Content:
- Unexpected change of Government sends him back to the India Board [Lord Palmerston's Government had fallen a few days earlier and had been succeeded by a Conservative administration under Lord Derby, with the Earl of Ellenborough becoming President of the Board of Control for the fourth time]; ha...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 24 Feb 1858
- Extent:
- 1 item
110. Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/13
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/13
- Title:
- Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
- Scope & Content:
- Comments on fall of Palmerston's Ministry and reactions of East India Company Directors; reviews arguments for and against Canning's resignation (including comments on unpleasant tone of Derby and Ellenborough towards Canning); as his last act has appointed G E L Cotton (Headmaster of Marlborough...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 25 Feb 1858
- Extent:
- 1 item