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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/68
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: Membership of Uncovenanted Civil Service in India does not automatically confer gentlemanly status.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 May 1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/69
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: [Refers to Canning's letter of 2 April (1)]; Notes attack on Davidson and possible delay in sending home one regiment.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 8 May 1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/70
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: [Refers to Canning's letter of 18 March (1), and 20 March]; no complaints in Parliament regarding equipping of new European cavalry regiments; with approval of C-in-C has submitted request to Queen for three local Regiments to be styled 'Royal'.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 8 May 1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/71
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: [Refers to Canning's letter of 2 April]; thinks Frere is best candidate for Canning's Council, but hesitates to remove him from present post (Chief Commissioner in Sind) where he is doing so well.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 8 May 1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/72
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: Realises from papers recently received that Tayler's conduct was worse than he originally thought.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 10 May 1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/73
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: Encloses letters on question of supplying officers for German Legion; Canning need not answer personally this and similar requests for information.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 12 May 1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/74
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: Queen has agreed to style three local regiments 'Royal'; question whether honour should go to 1st or 2nd Bombay Light Infantry.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16 May 1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/75
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: [Refers to Canning's letter of 3 April]; agrees it is not worthwhile to transfer supervision of Mysore to Madras given age and position of Raja, but is unconvinced of Canning's general arguments against such transfers.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16 May 1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/76
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: Discusses at length arguments for reconstituting Governor-General's Executive Council to be composed of departmental heads (i.e. Secretaries to Govt of India); feels force of these arguments but the change would be revolutionary, would involve the loss of the best prizes open to the civil service...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16 May 1859
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/77
Title:: Letter from Stanley to Canning
Scope & Content:: Policy in Central Asia; proposal to establish British Agent at Herat with two assistants one of whom would be at Kandahar; Lawrence and Edwardes both recommend purely defensive policy towards Afghanistan; Lawrence's arguments for ceding Peshawar district to Afghanistan and making Indus the Indian...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 May 1859
Extent:: 1 item

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