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191. Mss Eur F83/7, f494

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/7, f494
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Question of leave for members of Elgin's Council; asks for names of possible appointees as provisional member and to succeed Patiala; discusses Norman's memorandum on number of officers required for Indian Staff Corps, how it should be composed in future, and question of allowing further retireme...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Dec 1862
Extent:
1 item

192. Mss Eur F83/8, f32

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/8, f32
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Refers to Elgin's letter of 9 November; disturbances in Cossiah (Khasi) and Jaintia hills and heavy cost of coercing primitive tribes in modern humane fashion – only in the American West can the gun be the real legislator; refers to Elgin's letter of 4 December; importance of Governor-General vis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1863
Extent:
1 item

193. Mss Eur F83/8, f38

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/8, f38
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
[Refers to Elgin's letter of 9 December]; Mysore question; problems caused by absence of C-in-C from Calcutta, including failure of military members of Medical Mission to sign report; brief comments on Canning's appointees – Montgomery, Wingfield, Yule, Beadon and Edward Elliot; Governor-General'...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1863
Extent:
1 item

194. Mss Eur F83/8, f44

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/8, f44
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Refers to Elgin's letter of 23 December; agrees with Elgin on conduct towards Europeans and Indians; has never disparaged planter party in public; comments on Indian press; opposes extension of penalties for breach of contract to mofussil, if that is Maine's intention; hopes Bombay proposal for r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1863
Extent:
1 item

195. Mss Eur F83/8, f73

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/8, f73
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Explains problem of Oudh claims, i.e. claims of Europeans dating from 1797, against rulers of Oudh; East India Company refused to enforce them and Wood does not think they should be allowed, but Law Officers at home take different view and Wood therefore reluctantly asks Elgin to set up Commissio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Mar 1863
Extent:
1 item

196. Mss Eur F83/8, f121

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/8, f121
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Suspects that non-execution of public works may be due to (Sir) Richard Strachey (Secretary, Public Works Dept, Govt of India) interfering too much in details; allowable in principle for clergymen to teach Christianity out of school hours (and for Hindus and Muslims to do likewise for their relig...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1863
Extent:
1 item

197. Mss Eur F83/8, f127

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/8, f127
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Lord Stanley is anxious that Govt of India should see report of his Commission on Sanitary State of Indian Army before barracks are built; his great disappointment at lack of expenditure on reproductive public works in 1862/63 which Trevelyan's budget for 1863/64 does nothing to rectify and canno...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1863
Extent:
1 item

198. Mss Eur F83/8, f148

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/8, f148
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Trevelyan's budget is different from what was expected and from what either Wood, Elgin, or Trevelyan intended; supposes Harington and Grey must have overpowered Trevelyan; but no harm done and budget will be approved; refers to correspondence with Frere and asks Elgin to consider Dinkar Rao's su...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1863
Extent:
1 item

199. Mss Eur F83/8, f190

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/8, f190
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Queen has given KCSI to Jaipur and Jind; sends memorandum by Mr Hawkins (India Office official) on Maine's scheme which would effect revolution in Court system and employment of natives 'and might be an element in furnishing ground or cause for a political revolution in India'.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Aug 1863
Extent:
1 item

200. Mss Eur F83/8, f200

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/8, f200
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Has recommended Yule for CB; is not anxious to press English soldiers as instructors on Shah of Persia; acquiesces in Indian financial arrangements which appear to be Council's rather than Trevelyan's; Wood is at least confident of their honest character which he was not last year; insanitary sta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Aug 1863
Extent:
1 item

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