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61. Mss Eur F90/26, no.2

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.2
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
[Refers to Lawrence's letters of 19 November (2) and 21 November]; organisation of Indian military high command; any important alteration in position of C-in-C, India, will agitate military men at home; difficulty of finding good men for that post; brevet rank should not have been given to retire...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1865
Extent:
1 item

62. Mss Eur F90/26, no.3

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.3
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Great care needed in legislating to enforce Maine's doctrine on enforcement of specific performance of contracts – 'care must be taken to prevent the ryots from falling into the state of dependence which prevailed 3 or 4 years ago; urges Lawrence not to shrink from abolishing Grand Juries – Law C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1865
Extent:
1 item

63. Mss Eur F90/26, no.4

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.4
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Several letters from Lawrence have arrived some of which relate to matters he will need to discuss with his Councillors; on rent and contract questions, refers Lawrence to his lengthy letters to Maine and Harington; McLeod's' letter on course he will pursue as Lt-Governor is all Wood could ask; a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1865
Extent:
1 item

64. Mss Eur F90/26, no.5

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.5
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Lucknow-Cawpore branch line included in concession to Branch Railway, but they may be short of money; Lawrence must not give way on abolition of Grand Juries, otherwise 'the Govt of India will be at the mercy of the Calcutta agitators henceforward', and Wood has asked Baker to write to Napier to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1865
Extent:
1 item

65. Mss Eur F90/26, no.6

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.6
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Outlines doubts regarding Lawrence's policy on Oudh tenures; taluqdars fear Canning's settlement is to be upset; his policy, sanctioned by Home Govt, does seem to have given taluqdars benefit of acts of 'spoliation and usurpation'; Wood cautions Lawrence not to go too far – 'I cannot as at presen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1865
Extent:
1 item

66. Mss Eur F90/26, no.7

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.7
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Question of sovereignty or jurisdiction over railway lands outside British India; [refers to Lawrence's letter of 17/18 December]; suggests how problem which Lawrence attributes to Indian Councils Act might be solved; supports Lawrence's position on Son scheme; possible appointments to Council; a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1865
Extent:
1 item

67. Mss Eur F90/26, no.8

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.8
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Explains at length his doubts on Lawrence's policy on Oudh tenures; Canning's policy was designed 'to set up a native gentry or aristocracy in the shape of the talookdars. It was not a course of policy which had prevailed of late years in India, it is one which I believe is opposed to your own vi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1865
Extent:
1 item

68. 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

69. Mss Eur F90/26, no.10

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/26, no.10
Title:
Letter from Wood to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Has had long discussions with his advisers on Oudh land tenures, and a despatch is on the anvil; outlines his views at length; criticises type of enquiry into tenures established by Lawrence and the officer sent by him to conduct it – Mr (later Sir Robert) Davies ('a Punjabee trained in the level...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Feb 1865
Extent:
1 item

70. 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