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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/13
Title:: Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:: Comments on fall of Palmerston's Ministry and reactions of East India Company Directors; reviews arguments for and against Canning's resignation (including comments on unpleasant tone of Derby and Ellenborough towards Canning); as his last act has appointed G E L Cotton (Headmaster of Marlborough...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 25 Feb 1858
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/18
Title:: Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
Scope & Content:: Refers to Canning's letter of 20 February; problem of awarding honours; agrees with Canning about Frere; if there was anything wrong with despatch on compensation, it arose 'from that eternal system of compromise between the Court [of Directors] and Board which mars so much correspondence'; Direc...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 Apr 1858
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/22
Title:: Letter from Sir G Clerk (Secretary to Board of Control) to Canning
Scope & Content:: Suggests Canning might find it worthwhile to see his son who has recently been attached to mission to Heart and is returning via Khorasan and Persia to India for information on those parts; Lord Stanley will probably be Ellenborough's successor [On 10 May Ellenborough resigned following the contr...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 25 May 1858
Extent:: 1 item

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