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511. Mss Eur F90/32B, no.66

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Mss Eur F90/32B, no.66
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Northcote
Scope & Content:
Acknowledges Northcote's letter of 18 October (1); has acquiesced in all Napier's proposals for Abyssinian expedition despite doubts on some points; unfairness of India having to pay ordinary expenses of troops on expedition; damage caused by cyclone not as great as feared; Orissa recovering quic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Nov 1867
Extent:
1 item

512. Mss Eur F90/32B, no.68

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Mss Eur F90/32B, no.68
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Northcote
Scope & Content:
Anstey's hope for Recordership of Moulmein; regret at Northcote's decision to have no Govt Directors for Bank of Bombay; terms offered to Orissa Irrigation Company liberal but far better than guarantee system – Lawrence's criticisms of latter; views on need for Governor-General and his Council to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Dec 1867
Extent:
1 item

513. Mss Eur F90/32B, no.70

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Mss Eur F90/32B, no.70
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Northcote
Scope & Content:
Proposals for Income tax and Licence tax to replace current Licence tax being sent home; views on financial policy; reviving Income tax means it will be available to be increased in emergency; only alternative to Income tax would be periodic borrowing which would be 'simply suicidal'; salt tax; e...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1867
Extent:
1 item

514. Mss Eur F90/32B, no.74

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Mss Eur F90/32B, no.74
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Northcote
Scope & Content:
Chronic discontent of Army officers in India; root cause is difficulty experienced by older officers 'without influence and connection at Home' in supervising education of their sons in England and finding them employment; in India these sons face competition for employment in uncovenanted servic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Dec 1867
Extent:
1 item

515. Mss Eur F90/28, no.35

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Mss Eur F90/28, no.35
Title:
Letter from Sir James Fergusson (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India) to Lawrence
Scope & Content:
Is to become Under-Secretary at Home Office; Commons debate on Orissa Famine; regrets some things said by Cranborne; hard words in Commons a fair reflection of public opinion; debate attracted more attention than usual for Indian subjects; debate on Jervis Court Martial case.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1867
Extent:
1 item

516. Mss Eur F90/32A, no.1

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Mss Eur F90/32A, no.1
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Cranborne
Scope & Content:
Refers to Cranborne's letter of 26 November; accepts Cranborne's views on Frere; advocates Muir rather than Yule for membership of his Council and would 'feel it a great blow and discouragement if my recommendation in his [Muir's] case was not accepted'; regrets that King of Bukhara has sent amba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1867
Extent:
1 item

517. Mss Eur F90/32A, no.2

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Mss Eur F90/32A, no.2
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Cranborne
Scope & Content:
Refers to Cranborne's letter of 3 December (2); would gradually reduce army numbers 'where this can be done with safety on financial grounds'; only minor reductions of native troops possible and these would cause an outcry; reduction of native troops would increase duties of British troops who no...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jan 1867
Extent:
1 item

518. Mss Eur F90/32A, no.20

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Mss Eur F90/32A, no.20
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Northcote
Scope & Content:
Refers to Cranborne's letter of 3 December (2) and his own of 4 January on need to reduce British Army in India, and encloses report by Sir W Mansfield (C-in-C, India); preferable to loan regiments from India than raise one in India specifically for service in Hong Kong; Orissa situation slightly...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1867
Extent:
1 item

519. Mss Eur F90/32A, no.22

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Mss Eur F90/32A, no.22
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Cranborne
Scope & Content:
Glad to find he was mistaken in thinking that Cranborne had given up Mysore; Cranborne's method of handling question a very good one; would be retrograde step to return Mysore to native rule after it had been administered under British system for thirty years.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1867
Extent:
1 item

520. Mss Eur F90/32A, no.23

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Mss Eur F90/32A, no.23
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Northcote
Scope & Content:
Refers to Northcote's letter of 11 March; will write fully and freely to him as he knows how much this will 'facilitate business'; Govt has been laying in stores of grain in Orissa; situation in Orissa; with reference to speech by Maj Anson in Commons, denies troop levels in India are too high; d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1867
Extent:
1 item

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