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11. Mss Eur F83/4, f20

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/4, f20
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Need fill up vacancies in High Court; leave of absence due to climate, and language difficulty, combined with flood of appeals from mofussil, are causing arrears of work to mount; comments on George Campbell (Judicial Commissioner of Oudh) whom he has appointed to officiate in High Court while De...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Sep 1862
Extent:
1 item

12. Mss Eur F83/4, f84

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/4, f84
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Is upset at Wood's offhand dismissal of Government of India's plans for tramways and disputes that private enterprise will provide them without any Government aid; Wood's decision will deprive Indian industry of a means of development, and railways (in which Government has a large financial inter...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1862
Extent:
1 item

13. Mss Eur F83/4, f223

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/4, f223
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Does not think they differ much in opinion and hopes his frankness in correspondence will prevent discordance in action; as regards consideration of the natives, Elgin is always sides with weaker party, but still thinks grievances of stronger should be given fair hearing; discusses attitudes of E...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Dec 1862
Extent:
1 item

14. Mss Eur F83/4, f197

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/4, f197
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Logic he is defending in Mysore case is not his but Canning's; Babu Sumbhu Nath Pandit; time is not propitious for promoting opening through Sikkim into Tibet; his reasons for not summoning C-in-C to Calcutta; does not believe Military Member of Council and C-in-C 'can ever sit comfortably togeth...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Dec 1862
Extent:
1 item

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