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161. Mss Eur F90/26, no.9

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.9
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Asks Lawrence so to manage Oudh land tenures problem as not to have general complaint from taluqdars; hopes question will not be brought forward; Wood will defend course taken in the main, but doubts Lord Stanley would; none of the three schemes for Calcutta docks and improvements in Hooghly have...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1865
Extent:
1 item

162. Mss Eur F90/26, no.11

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.11
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Filling of possible vacancies in Lawrence's Council; dislikes proposed loan for barracks.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1865
Extent:
1 item

163. Mss Eur F90/26, no.12

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.12
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Discusses Oudh tenures at length; does not believe Canning intended, when re-establishing taluqdar aristocracy, to sacrifice rights of others; believes Lawrence could have rectified situation without giving so much appearance of upsetting Canning's policy; impresses on Lawrence 'very strongly ind...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1865
Extent:
1 item

164. Mss Eur F90/26, no.13

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.13
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Oudh tenures; believes that if Lawrence could have conference with Wingfield and others it might be possible to arrange matters so as to carry taluqdars with them 'as far as seems to me to be necessary in order to do justice to the ryots'; summarises points at issue which he does not think involv...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Feb 1865
Extent:
1 item

165. Mss Eur F90/26, no.14

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.14
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Encloses memorandum on what he understands to be position of taluqdar question, which has also been sent privately to Wingfield, urging him to co-operate in reconciling taluqdars; proceedings of latter at their meeting seem very reasonable – 'they quite admit preservation if existence is proved, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Feb 1865
Extent:
1 item

166. Mss Eur F90/26, no.15

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.15
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Mission of Col (later Sir Frederick) Goldsmid to Persia; Russian advance in Central Asia; agrees that military power should subordinate to Govt; increased allowance for cavalry; comments on Massey (who as an erstwhile barrister may of use on legal questions of Maine leaves); Bengal rent question.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Feb 1865
Extent:
1 item

167. Mss Eur F90/26, no.20

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.20
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Oudh tenures; Davies's instructions go too far in encouraging tenants to put forward claims and will cause antagonism between landowner and tenant – 'the result of the present orders must be a judicial investigation into every ryot's claim throughout Oude. That is a serious matter'; on another po...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1865
Extent:
1 item

168. Mss Eur F90/26, no.24

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.24
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Lawrence's letter of 20 February a 'capital defence' of his Oudh policy; Wood's despatch 'written as much for the H of Commons as for you' where Wood hopes Lawrence will not be attacked as Wood has taken pains to convince critics; 'but undeniably there was a strong feeling here on the subject'; t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1865
Extent:
1 item

169. Mss Eur F90/26, no.26

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.26
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Dewangiri affair – 'we shall no longer be looked up to as invincible. If bows and arrows drive Armstrong Guns out of the field, we are in bad hands; Duke of Brabant appreciates 'delicate attentions' he received in India; presents received by Prince and Princess of Wales displayed at Marlborough H...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Apr 1865
Extent:
1 item

170. Mss Eur F90/26, no.27A

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.27A
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Acknowledges Lawrence's letter of 2 March; Dewangiri affair; Wood would like to hold a proper line of posts and would go further up hills to ensure a healthy place; reports of Trevelyan's financial statement on 1 April seem to be at variance with proposals in his telegram of 26 March; tenant occu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Apr 1865
Extent:
1 item