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241. Mss Eur F83/7, f147

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/7, f147
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Canning has liver attack; C-in-C should not absent himself too much from seat of government – there is danger anybody in such position will set up as independent power; opposes practice of Govt departments writing against each other; agrees Police are less dangerous force than native army; milita...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 May 1862
Extent:
1 item

242. Mss Eur F83/7, f240

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/7, f240
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Lady Elgin's mode of travel to India; Prince of Wales now unlikely to go.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jun 1862
Extent:
1 item

243. Mss Eur F83/7, f360

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/7, f360
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Duke of Cambridge (C-in-C) will give Rose hint about making grievances; Cambridge thinks native army too large; Wood thinks native army and police together 'not much less than before the mutiny'; encloses memorandum by Lord Russell (in which he concurs) on limits of British obligation to Persia t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Sep 1862
Extent:
1 item

244. Mss Eur F83/7, f363

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/7, f363
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Refers to Elgin's letter of 17 August (2): Mysore case; majority of his Council think Raja must be restored; matter is suspended and Wood is 'not sorry to waste time about it, so as to take the chance of accidents' and is 'sadly puzzled between what seems to be our honest course and my wish to se...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1862
Extent:
1 item

245. Mss Eur F83/7, f367

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/7, f367
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Refers to Elgin's letter of 17 August (2): explains opposition to appointment of Inspector General of Police; briefly states his position on control of Local Governments by Supreme Government.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1862
Extent:
1 item

246. Mss Eur F83/7, f371

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/7, f371
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Refers to Elgin's letter of 17 August (2): his views on change of seat of Government; discusses question of new Finance Member of Elgin's Council and gives reasons for appointing Trevelyan; refers to Elgin's letter of 17 August (1): confesses ignorance of Burmese affairs but, as in Afghanistan, a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1862
Extent:
1 item

247. Mss Eur F83/7, f466

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/7, f466
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Question of Indian flag and when Elgin can fly it; Frere's complaints of inefficiency and jobbery in Telegraph Dept; memorials for covenanted and uncovenanted servants, and doctors; question of opening up Irrawaddy to navigation and trade – hopes Col (Sir) A Phayre's mission will clear ground; ad...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1862
Extent:
1 item

248. Mss Eur F83/8, f50

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/8, f50
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Refers to Elgin's letter of 5 January; many of Canning's measures crude; should be no difficulty in Govt of India making divorce law; Ghulam Muhammad; public opinion, apart from Manchester people, supports Wood's position on contract law; supports Elgin vis-à-vis C-in-C and again deprecates his a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1863
Extent:
1 item

249. Mss Eur F83/8, f77

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/8, f77
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
Refers to Elgin's letters of 20 and 23 January; comments on Trevelyan and on India's financial situation generally – Wood re-iterates need for economies and opposition to expenditure on barracks from cash balances intended for public works of utility; question of move of seat of government can ke...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Mar 1863
Extent:
1 item

250. Mss Eur F83/8, f87

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F83/8, f87
Title:
Letter from Wood to Elgin
Scope & Content:
It has been decided not to upset Canning's decision on Mysore, though Wood considers eventually it will have to be annexed and adoption by the Raja disallowed; Trevelyan.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Mar 1863
Extent:
1 item