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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F83/7, f426
Title:: Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:: Never dreamed of Duleep Singh's mother going westward; Trevelyan will take son as Private Secretary; question whether Govt of India and Council of India will agree to pay salary.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 25 Oct 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F83/7, f428
Title:: Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:: [Refers to Elgin's letter of 23 September]; Mysore case; number of judges required by High Court; inclined to think Rose (C-in-C, India) too much an independent power – 'heaven help the Governor General with an awkward Com.r in Chief'; adverse comments on Rose; waste lands resolution defective in...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 30 Oct 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F83/7, f435
Title:: Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:: [Refers to Elgin's letter of 2 October]; approves Elgin's measures regarding Afghanistan; discusses at length Col Balfour's letter, and Govt of India's and in particular Laing's inaccuracies and irregular methods of conducting business in matter of troop numbers in India; notes that private corre...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 9 Nov 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F83/7, f446
Title:: Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:: [Refers to Elgin's letter of 9 October]; thinks additional judge for High Court unnecessary; likes to see Indian papers when based on some knowledge of events; question of contract law and sale of lands is between Englishmen and natives – 'I consider it to be my duty to protect the Native'; Canni...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17 Nov 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F83/7, f452
Title:: Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:: Refers to Elgin's letter of 19 October; tramways; Wood's preference for lines promoting traffic in produce as distinct from passenger traffic; C-in-C more likely to act independently when not under immediate eye of Governor-General; Wood is considering 'Minister of War and C-in-C in one at Calcut...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 26 Nov 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F83/7, f462
Title:: Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:: Refers to Elgin's letter of 4 November; Patiala's membership of Legislative Council and importance of having good native representatives; Duleep Singh and his mother; adheres to view that Inspector General of Police is unnecessary; urges Elgin to write to him privately beforehand on such matters;...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 8 Dec 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F83/7, f470
Title:: Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:: Refers to Elgin's letter of 19 November; approves withdrawal of Vakil from Afghanistan; has approved Govt of India's proposals on tramways; Mysore case; Govt of India must obtain stationery through HM Stationery Office and not by local tender; general rule that supplies of English articles must b...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18 Dec 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F83/7, f482
Title:: Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:: Refers to Elgin's letter of 23 November; re-states his complaint that private individuals in England sometimes receive official papers from India before India Office; did not intend criticism of Elgin personally, since he uses word 'you' to stand for Govt of India; denies having received communic...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 27 Dec 1862
Extent:: 1 item

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

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

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