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71. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/44

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/44
Title:
No. 44: Letter from Viscount Sydney
Scope & Content:
Sydney has been asked by the Queen to write to Canning about the dress or uniform to be worn at her Court by the Civil Servants in the Indian Service. The matter has arisen because Lieutenant Osborne of Rewah appeared in a hybrid kind of uniform; a diplomatic uniform with the aiguillette of an H...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1861
Extent:
1 item

72. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/45

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/45
Title:
No. 45: Letter from Viscount Sydney
Scope & Content:
Sends various papers about the court dress of Civil Servants. Private. Enclosed: 1. Note from the Duke of Newcastle's Private Secretary about the colonial uniforms. Because of the variety of answers and suggestions from the 50 Colonies, all with different forms of constitution, the question ha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1861
Extent:
3 items

73. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/46

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/46
Title:
No. 46: Letter from the Earl of Elgin
Scope & Content:
Writes that it is settled that Elgin is to succeed Canning. Canning will well understand Elgin's feelings. Elgin would be glad to know of any matters he should attend to, before leaving England. Asks for a list of the household things Canning intends to dispose of, and for information about what...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Aug 1861
Extent:
1 item

74. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/47

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/47
Title:
No. 47: Letter from the Earl of Elgin
Scope & Content:
Asks for advice about his staff. Hopes to see Laing when he returns from the Highlands. Lady Elgin has not made up her mind what to do. Asks about servants
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1861
Extent:
1 item

75. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/48

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/48
Title:
No. 48: Letter from the Earl of Elgin
Scope & Content:
Thanks Canning for his letter. Elgin is awed rather than elated by his appointment. He should leave Suez at the end of Jan and asks Canning to have the 'Feroze' there about that time. He has done hardly anything about staff, but it is no use troubling Canning with questions, for there is no time...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Oct 1861
Extent:
1 item

76. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/49

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/49
Title:
No. 49: Letter from Lord Palmerston
Scope & Content:
Informs Lord Canning that the Order of the Garter is to be conferred upon him on his return to England as a mark of Her Majesty's high approval of his great services as Governor General. Endorsed: Copy made by order 9 Dec 1861.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Oct 1861
Extent:
1 item

77. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/50

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/50
Title:
No. 50: Letter from the Earl of Elgin
Scope & Content:
Proposes to buy Canning's closed carriage. Is behind with his arrangements, and will probably come to India almost alone, and acquire a staff there. Sends a letter to Sir Robert Napier [not enclosed].
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1861
Extent:
1 item

78. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/51

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/51
Title:
No. 51: Letter from the Earl of Elgin
Scope & Content:
Explains that he did not write before because he did not know how the death of Lady Canning would affect Canning's plans for leaving India. He will reach Calcutta as near as possible to the 1st March. He had hoped to be the first to congratulate Canning on the happy and successful end of his Gov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1862
Extent:
1 item

79. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/52

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/52
Title:
No. 52: Letter from the Earl of Elgin
Scope & Content:
Writes from Aden that he has been delayed, and therefore will if Canning wishes give up his visit to Madras and come straight to Calcutta. Endorsed: Telegraph Messages Sent Number 966
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1862
Extent:
1 item

80. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/3

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/3
Title:
Letters from the Court of Directors of the East India Company
Scope & Content:
Letters from Elliot Macnaghten, Colonel William Henry Sykes, Ross Donnelly Mangles & Sir Frederick Currie, including detailed summaries.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1856-25 Oct 1858
Extent:
1 volume (72 items)