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151. Mss Eur F83/8, f83

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/8, f83
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Strongly disapproves Govt of India's reduced assignment for public works in Bombay; urges Elgin to remember public opinion at home on question of cotton supply; Wood has resisted Manchester people's unreasonable demands on duties, contracts, and waste lands, but on roads they have unanswerable ca...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1863
Extent:
1 item

152. Mss Eur F83/8, f111

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/8, f111
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
India's financial estimates for 1862/63; extraordinary increase in revenue expected from opium; Wood is seriously concerned at small expenditure on public works especially roads, and hopes to receive explanation before his statement to Parliament, otherwise he will be 'horribly abused'; hopes Tre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 May 1863
Extent:
1 item

153. Mss Eur F83/8, f158

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/8, f158
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Sends memorandum by Sir Proby Cautley on Ganges canal.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jun 1863
Extent:
1 item

154. Mss Eur F83/2, f13v

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/2, f13v
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Is installed [sworn in on 12 March]; Canning has been friendly and communicative, but in accordance with previous practice has taken away all his private correspondence with Wood and others; has discussed financial position with Samuel Laing (Finance Member of Viceroy's Council) which appears sat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1862
Extent:
1 item

155. Mss Eur F83/2, f20

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/2, f20
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Asks for clarification of Wood's reference to army reductions in his letter of 18 February; comments on surprising extent to which disputes between Government of India and Home Government, and interdepartmental disputes in India, are made public in the press; death of William Ritchie (Law Member ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Mar 1862
Extent:
1 item

156. Mss Eur F83/2, f113v

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/2, f113v
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Laing goes home this mail on leave for medical reasons, and Elgin will leave it to him to explain measures for introduction of paper currency; comments on Laing and hopes he will return; in meantime Elgin will obtain insight into Finance Dept the better to assess Laing's schemes in future; last i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 May 1862
Extent:
1 item

157. Mss Eur F83/2, f130v

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/2, f130v
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Persons who have been 'trading on the fears of the people in Oude' are beginning to be detected, and Elgin has urged that every effort should be made to seize and punish them; is disgusted with 'military panic mongers' in the North West; notes folly of discussing, e.g. poisoning of Europeans (cur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jun 1862
Extent:
1 item

158. Mss Eur F83/3, f1

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/3, f1
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Panic is subsiding, and mention is now being made of enormous military superiority enjoyed by British; encloses article on subject by English newspaper conducted by natives; describes case of murder of native by British ex-soldier; notes delay and expense of judicial system when trial of European...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jun 1862
Extent:
1 item

159. Mss Eur F83/3, f168

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/3, f168
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Has come to Bhagalpur where climate is not cooler but drier; filling post of Resident at Hyderabad needs thought.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Aug 1862
Extent:
1 item

160. Mss Eur F83/4, f20

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/4, f20
Title:
Letter from Elgin to Wood
Scope & Content:
Need fill up vacancies in High Court; leave of absence due to climate, and language difficulty, combined with flood of appeals from mofussil, are causing arrears of work to mount; comments on George Campbell (Judicial Commissioner of Oudh) whom he has appointed to officiate in High Court while De...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Sep 1862
Extent:
1 item

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