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161. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/8

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/8
Title:
No. 8: Letter from Robert Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Sorry to hear Lord Canning thinks the cost of Government must be increased. Approves of the plan of sending Mr Ricketts on a Commission. Believes Indian salaries are too high. Comments on negotiations over Persia at Constantinople. Is glad Oudh has gone well; the Treaty of 1837 is awkward. The L...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1856
Extent:
1 item

162. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/9

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/9
Title:
No. 9: Letter from Robert Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Glad to hear of the continued peace of Oudh. He regrets Lord Canning's private note about [James] Outram but by what Colonel Sykes tells Vernon Smith, he feels himself not quite equal to the arrangements. Vernon Smith hears the Gubbins family are notoriously difficult. Comments on finances and t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 May 1856
Extent:
1 item

163. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/10

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/10
Title:
No. 10: Letter from Robert Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Comments on the Police proposals. Lord Panmure will not agree to the substitution of European Company's Regiments for Queen's. Sends a telegraph from Lord Stratford (not enclosed) and warns Lord Canning to prepare for war. Regrets Outram's ill-health; asks for the King of Oudh to be kept in Indi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1856
Extent:
2 items

164. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/11

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/11
Title:
No. 11: Letter from Robert Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Thanks Lord Canning for his letters on Mr Plowden's Salt Report, and about the Legislative Council; with comments. He is pleased with the account of Oudh, and urges Lord Canning not to overcrowd the Province with Europeans, but to do as much as possible with natives. Criticises the appointment o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jun 1856
Extent:
1 item

165. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/12

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/12
Title:
No. 12: Letter from Robert Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Agrees with Lord Canning that the Legislative Council in India should carry into effect the recommendations of the Law Commission, and no Parliamentary legislation would then be necessary. Lord Canning's complaint of delay in the other two Presidencies is counterbalanced by complaints from Madra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1856
Extent:
2 items

166. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/13

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/13
Title:
No. 13: Letter from Robert Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Sorry to hear from Lady Clanricarde that Canning has not been well. The decision on Persia goes out by the present mail; comments. Ballard and Green have been sent to Bombay to await orders. Officers and muskets to the Dost, with the news of an expedition to the Persian Gulf at the end of Sep wi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jul 1856
Extent:
1 item

167. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/14

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/14
Title:
No. 14: Letter from Robert Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Urges Lord Canning to persuade the Legislative Council to pass as much as they can of the recommendations of the Law Commission, and also to speed up educational progress. Maule and the Duke of Cambridge have unadvisedly altered Hardinge's proposal about the two regiments in India. War with Pers...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1856
Extent:
1 item

168. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/15

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/15
Title:
No. 15: Letter from Robert Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Hopes as much legislation will be passed as possible in India before the meeting of Parliament, in spite of the difficulty about the Admiralty law. Asks if [Barnes] Peacock's appointment as Legislative Councillor need be continued. Remarks on the delays in the Police despatch, and on sending out...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Aug 1856
Extent:
1 item

169. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/16

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/16
Title:
No. 16: Letter from Robert Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Comments on finance. Feroze Khan is going to Constantinople, preparations for war should be continued. General Anson's tour of inspection has been agreed upon. The currency question [at Singapore?] is causing a great stir. Comments on the treatment of the Queen of Oudh.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Sep 1856
Extent:
1 item

170. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/17

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/4/17
Title:
No. 17: Letter from Robert Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
States that it has been resolved to order the expedition to the Persian Gulf to start and to occupy Karrack and Bushire, with comments. Shiraz would be difficult to supply. Dost Mahomed should be encouraged to attack the Shah. Sir George Clerk thinks that 9,000 or 10,000 men would not be half en...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1856
Extent:
1 item