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41. Mss Eur F83/4, f136

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/4, f136
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Is half blind and still shaky from fever; criticizes Beadon's policy towards tribes in Cossiah (Khasi) and Jaintia hills in Assam; generalizes on policy towards primitive tribes; Government of India normally overrules Lt-Governor only in extreme circumstances; Grey's wish for home leave and quest...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Nov 1862
Extent:
1 item

42. Mss Eur F83/4, f147

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/4, f147
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Policy towards Persia and Afghanistan; question of construction of tramways and method of financing them; death of Patiala; Mysore case; notes that if Raja is restored he will have to govern not only natives but a considerable number of Europeans who have settled there; comments on impending appo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Nov 1862
Extent:
1 item

43. Mss Eur F83/4, f165

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/4, f165
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Explains views on contacts between Secretary of State and unofficial sources in India, and on danger of allowing Native Chiefs to think they can use English agents at home to by-pass Government of India; discusses practical limitations on power of Governor-General in peace time and need for Home ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Nov 1862
Extent:
1 item

44. Mss Eur F83/4, f178

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/4, f178
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
His projected tour and importance of Governor-General not to be too closely identified with Calcutta bureaucracy of which there is great jealousy elsewhere in India; has been working 13 or 14 hours per day; 'extreme disagreeableness' of Calcutta temperature during hot weather; contests views of C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Dec 1862
Extent:
1 item

45. 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

46. Mss Eur F83/4, f211

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/4, f211
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Describes proceedings in recent meeting of Legislative Council on its rules of procedure, and contract law (on which they decided to withdraw Bill); inadequacy of official reports of Council proceedings; comments on Col (later Sir) Arthur Phayre's good management of relations with Burma; prospect...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Dec 1862
Extent:
1 item

47. 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

48. Mss Eur F83/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/5
Title:
Scope & Content:
Letters from Governor-General to Secretary of State
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jan-30 Jul 1863
Extent:

1 volume

49. Mss Eur F83/5, f1

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/5, f1
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
On Legislative Council, Canning's proposal to create aristocracy in Oudh after English fashion 'very crude' and needs more enquiry, as does bill for compulsory purchase of lands for public purposes; divorce bill needs prior legislation in Parliament; therefore thinks Legislative Council might dis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1863
Extent:
1 item

50. Mss Eur F83/5, f7

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/5, f7
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Lady Elgin has arrived; encloses report on Military Finance Dept for 1861-62, but things its abolition worth considering.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1863
Extent:
1 item