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291. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/44

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/44
Title:
No. 44: Letter from Viscount Sydney
Scope & Content:
Sydney has been asked by the Queen to write to Canning about the dress or uniform to be worn at her Court by the Civil Servants in the Indian Service. The matter has arisen because Lieutenant Osborne of Rewah appeared in a hybrid kind of uniform; a diplomatic uniform with the aiguillette of an H...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1861
Extent:
1 item

292. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/48

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/2/48
Title:
No. 48: Letter from the Earl of Elgin
Scope & Content:
Thanks Canning for his letter. Elgin is awed rather than elated by his appointment. He should leave Suez at the end of Jan and asks Canning to have the 'Feroze' there about that time. He has done hardly anything about staff, but it is no use troubling Canning with questions, for there is no time...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Oct 1861
Extent:
1 item

293. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/13/25

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/13/25
Title:
18b. Letter from Lord Harris
Scope & Content:
He forgot to say that Sir Patrick Grant left on 13 Jun in the 'Fire Queen'. Sir Patrick had not heard of the death of his son.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jun 1857
Extent:
1 item

294. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/13/48

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/13/48
Title:
31f. Letter from Lord Harris
Scope & Content:
Sends a copy of a private letter, has sent a copy to Vernon Smith. Asks what will happen about financial officers, there are all kinds of rumours about their fate. Sends copies of newspaper extracts [not enclosed] with comments. There was trouble with the 4th Cavalry on its starting for Benares ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1858-27 Feb 1858
Extent:
2 items

295. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/13/80

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/13/80
Title:
57. Letter from Sir William Denison
Scope & Content:
Has heard that his brother may not be allowed to act as his Military Secretary. If this is so, Denison would have to postpone his visit to Canning, or make it immediately, because he could not leave his daughters at Madras except under his brother's protection. Endorsed: Answered by Telegraph ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1861
Extent:

1 item

296. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/13/88

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/13/88
Title:
65. Letter from Sir William Denison
Scope & Content:
Sends papers in reply to Canning's letter on the Godavery. Denison intends to complete the rail route for the cotton, and if Canning insists on the continuance of work on the canal and lock it will be impossible to complete the cotton route in time for the June 1862 cotton crop. Comments on the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jul 1861
Extent:

1 item

297. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/1

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/1
Title:
1. Letter from Lord Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Writes that since he wrote to Canning on 11 Feb he has seen 2 letters from Mr Erskine about Normal Schools which he would have probably seen before, if the Secretaries had not been trying to save Elphinstone trouble while Canning was with him. Sends copies of the letters, and a letter from Bisho...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Feb 1856
Extent:
4 items

298. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/8

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/8
Title:
6. Letter from Lord Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Regrets that he has not yet been able to send the Despatches to Mr Stevens at Teheran, as the Madras Government has detained the Assaye and no other steamer is available. The Victoria should come in shortly from Kurrachee and will carry the Despatches. The news of the surrender of Herat telegrap...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1856
Extent:
1 item

299. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/14

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/14/14
Title:
12. Letter from Lord Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
States that he had read and sent on Canning's letter to Colonel Jacob. It is true that Jacob's letters are self-sufficient and conceited, but he is nevertheless a very able man, with great experience of the Sind Frontier. He has transformed all the district within the Frontier from a wilderness ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jun 1856
Extent:
1 item

300. Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/3/1

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/1/3/1
Title:
No. 1: Letter from Elliot Macnaghten
Scope & Content:
Hopes that Lord and Lady Canning have arrived safely at Government House Calcutta. The telegraph will have brought the news of peace; all parties, and especially the French, have concluded that there has been enough fighting General Grant's appointment as Commander in Chief. Madras has at last b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1856
Extent:
1 item