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Container Reference (shelfmark) Mss Eur F90/26

21. Mss Eur F90/26, no.21

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.21
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Trevelyan gives much worse account of India's financial prospects than Wood had anticipated; suggests army and police reductions; George Lawrence not entitled to KCB; encloses mortality statistics for Indian jails some of which are very bad; clarifies his opinion in favour of abolition of perempt...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Mar 1865
Extent:
1 item

22. Mss Eur F90/26, no.22

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.22
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Procedure for appointment of new Adjutant-General who must be a Queen's Officer.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Mar 1865
Extent:
1 item

23. Mss Eur F90/26, no.23

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.23
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Refers to Lawrence's letter of 18 February (1); fears European planters will ruin native gentry in Coorg by taking away labourers; Wood has been horrified at planters' proceedings in Assam in seeking to compel labourers to work; contract and rent questions; hopes High Court will give collective o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1865
Extent:
1 item

24. 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

25. Mss Eur F90/26, no.25

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.25
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Encloses Oudh papers printed for Parliament; does not think any more will be heard about it 'unless Danby Seymour or some unimportant member takes it up'; request from Sir William Hooker (Director of Kew Gardens) for wood specimens.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Apr 1865
Extent:
1 item

26. 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

27. Mss Eur F90/26, no.27

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.27
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Encloses memorandum on Hooker's requirements regarding tree specimens.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Apr 1865
Extent:
1 item

28. 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

29. Mss Eur F90/26, no.28

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.28
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
On Oudh, thinks blue book satisfactory, its only omission being selection of Davies which Lawrence's letters make good; all Lawrence's letters have been sent to Stanley who will probably be satisfied; explains points on Oudh tenures on which he still disagrees with Lawrence; confesses his unders...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1865
Extent:
1 item

30. Mss Eur F90/26, no.28/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.28/2
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Dewangiri affair disgraceful; thinks it should probably be held; possible next step in Bhutan campaign; operations very costly given primitive character of opposition; puzzled by fact that Lawrence's and Trevelyan's letters all pointed at continuance of Income tax whereas recent telegrams refer t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1865
Extent:
1 item

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