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11. Mss Eur F231/4, p215

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Mss Eur F231/4, p215
Title:
Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:
Everyone 'in agonising expectation of the next telegraph'; mentions in passing departure of Sir Colin Campbell (newly appointed C-in-C, India); notes troops being sent to India; as regards future, discusses question of Queen's versus Company's European troops; Canning must provide tents for troop...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jul 1857
Extent:
1 item

12. Mss Eur F231/4, p248

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Mss Eur F231/4, p248
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Situation regarding disbandment of 19th N.I; native officers to blame for mutiny though no certain evidence; Colonel behaved injudiciously; advantages of making an example at Barrackpore; believes risk of 1000 disbanded men being turned loose near Calcutta counterbalanced by proximity of overwhel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Mar 1857
Extent:
1 item

13. Mss Eur F231/4, p27

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Mss Eur F231/4, p27
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
How dispute with Persia should be presented to 'our own Orientals' - comments on last letter from Lord Clarendon (Foreign Secretary) to Persia and his own much simpler proclamation to India; [refers to Vernon Smith's letter of 10 October]; no admission given Amir that he has any rights over Herat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Nov 1856
Extent:
1 item

14. Mss Eur F231/4, p118

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Mss Eur F231/4, p118
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Acknowledges Vernon Smith's letter of 10 January; minutes and papers on Herat and operations in Afghanistan go home by this mail; only member of Governor-General's Council who hankers after advance on Herat is (Sir) J P Grant; refers to his letters of 7 and 22 December (1) and 8 January (2) and s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1857
Extent:
1 item

15. Mss Eur F231/4, p140

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Mss Eur F231/4, p140
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Acknowledges Vernon Smith's letter of 10 February; defends his proclamation of war; hopes nothing he has written either officially or privately on non-feasibility of expedition to Herat will embarrass Govt with Directors; but is not sorry if record of his views stands in way of Govt committing 'a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Mar 1857
Extent:
1 item

16. Mss Eur F231/4, p174

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/4, p174
Title:
Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:
Discusses, and asks Canning's opinion on question of increasing Indian establishment of Queen's troops to be able to repress revolts among Indian troops and defend extended territories; Duke of Cambridge (C-in-C, British Army) hears constantly from officers of apprehensions of discontent among na...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Apr 1857
Extent:
1 item

17. Mss Eur F231/4, p19

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Mss Eur F231/4, p19
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
[Refers to Vernon Smith's letter of 26 September]; no fear of caste feelings being excited by new Enlistment Regulation which applies only to new recruits; recruits to Bombay Army already enlist for general service; no sign of suspicions among existing recruits that they may be compelled to cross...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Nov 1856
Extent:
1 item

18. Mss Eur F231/4, p48

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Mss Eur F231/4, p48
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
No news from Persian Gulf; Amir on way to Peshawar; refers to Vernon Smith's comments on policy towards Afghanistan in letter of 10 November; views of Sir J Lawrence, Col (Sir) H Edwardes (Commissioner of Peshawar), Col (Sir) James Abbott (Commissioner of Hazara 1845-53), and Canning himself on p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item

19. Mss Eur F231/4, p54

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Mss Eur F231/4, p54
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Refers to Vernon Smith's letter of 10 November; police scheme and need to adapt any such scheme to character of community affected by it; inclines more and more to uniformity of Government in India, but not for police; complains that 'crush of current work is something beyond conception'; problem...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1856
Extent:
1 item

20. Mss Eur F231/4, p78

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/4, p78
Title:
Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
Scope & Content:
Refers to Vernon Smith's letter of 25 November; will support Outram, but explains why he did not favour it (because no need for Political Head to the Army and more importantly because of Outram's health); Canning would have appointed Anson, with Henry Lawrence as Political Agent, and probably Col...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jan 1857
Extent:
1 item

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