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281. Mss Eur F231/3, p196

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Mss Eur F231/3, p196
Title:
Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:
Refers to Canning's letter of 8 October; appointment of Outram to command Persian expedition with both political and military powers; Vernon Smith hopes Canning will not think appointment an invasion of his privileges; Outram's instructions; Clarendon's annoyance at Canning's reduction of force; ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Nov 1856
Extent:
1 item

282. Mss Eur F231/3, p216

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Mss Eur F231/3, p216
Title:
Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:
Refers to Canning's letter of 7 December; Herat fell by treachery rather than force; agrees with most of Canning's views on Afghanistan; Bushire and Kharaq good equivalent for Herat; need to maintain pressure on Persia by warlike preparations; need for reinforcements for Bushire; opinion at home ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1857
Extent:
1 item

283. Mss Eur F231/3, p222

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Mss Eur F231/3, p222
Title:
Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:
Attack on Persian war in Lords stronger than in Commons; negotiations with Persia; Lord Ellenborough's and Vernon Smith's views on importance of Herat – whatever its real value, repeated assertions of its importance would make it ignominious not to protect it; ideally, Kabul, Kandahar and Herat s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1857
Extent:
1 item

284. 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

285. 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

286. 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

287. Mss Eur F231/4, p78

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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

288. Mss Eur F231/4, p158

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Mss Eur F231/4, p158
Title:
Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:
[Refers to Canning's letter of 23 January]; complains at lack of notice of 5% loan; peace negotiations; he and Clarendon approve treaty with Amir of Afghanistan but payments to Amir might be stopped even before ratification of peace treaty with Persia; Canning not expect at present troops from En...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1857
Extent:
1 item

289. Mss Eur F231/4, p162

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Mss Eur F231/4, p162
Title:
Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:
Refers to Canning's letter of 7 February; comments on Persian campaign, Paris peace negotiations, and possible movement of troops to China; sorry to hear of 'small emeute' about cartridges 'but it exhibits the mine upon which Indian Govt stands'; has visited Queen of Oudh; Queen Victoria feels Di...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Mar 1857
Extent:
1 item

290. Mss Eur F231/4, p181

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Mss Eur F231/4, p181
Title:
Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:
Acknowledges Canning's letters of 22 and 23 March; Turkish ambassador's favourable attitude to Persian campaign; comments on Sir W Napier's History of General Sir Charles Napier's conquest of Sind (2nd edn 1857) – 'a tissue of lies' – and animosity of Ellenborough and Napiers towards Outram; Govt...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 May 1857
Extent:
1 item