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581. Mss Eur F90/32A, no.4

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Mss Eur F90/32A, no.4
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Cranborne
Scope & Content:
Mistakes of Beadon and his officials in handling Orissa famine; if permanent revenue settlements are to be avoided, the sooner instructions reach India the better; inconvenient demands of Orissa Irrigation Company; coolie labour question and collapse of tea plantations in Assam and Darjeeling; Du...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jan 1867
Extent:
1 item

582. Mss Eur F90/32A, no.9

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Mss Eur F90/32A, no.9
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Cranborne
Scope & Content:
Suggests it would be inadvisable for India to depend on imported cartridges and unnecessary to introduce breach-loading Enfield rifles in India at present; Elphinstone Reclamation Company's request for Govt of India guarantee for loan and disadvantages of giving such guarantees; opposes giving gu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jan 1867
Extent:
1 item

583. Mss Eur F90/32A, no.10

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Mss Eur F90/32A, no.10
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Cranborne
Scope & Content:
Asks Cranborne to assist in sending out second master to Lawrence Asylum at Sanawar; Indus railway line militarily and politically far more important than one through Rajputana; opposes annexation of Burma; anonymous letter indicating native grievances; regrets no subscription in England to aid O...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Feb 1867
Extent:
1 item

584. Mss Eur F90/32A, no.13

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Mss Eur F90/32A, no.13
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Cranborne
Scope & Content:
Is unwell; acknowledges Cranborne's letter of 18 January; Muir will be great loss to Council and Lawrence personally; Yule currently detained in Hyderabad because by split between Nizam and his minister Salar Jung; meeting in Calcutta to raise subscriptions for Orissa famine, at which expressions...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Feb 1867
Extent:
1 item

585. Mss Eur F90/32A, no.15

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Mss Eur F90/32A, no.15
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Cranborne
Scope & Content:
Council has agreed to support Bombay Bank, and (against Lawrence's opinion) to borrow £520,000 for Calcutta waterworks; mismanagement of Calcutta municipal authorities of their sewerage and water supply projects; criticises system of indigo planting in Bihar; now appears planters may not have the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1867
Extent:
1 item

586. Mss Eur F90/32A, no.17

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Mss Eur F90/32A, no.17
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Cranborne
Scope & Content:
Regret at Cranborne's resignation; evil of constant changes of Secretary of State; Cranborne's two great achievements are settlement of grievances of officers of old local army, and placing irrigation question on satisfactory footing; Lawrence regrets Mysore decision; Lawrence pleased to serve un...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Mar 1867
Extent:
1 item

587. Mss Eur F90/32A, no.18

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Mss Eur F90/32A, no.18
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Northcote
Scope & Content:
Favours merger of Banks of Bombay and Bengal; distribution of Scindia's troops; accusation by Chairman of Orissa Irrigation Company in London of breach of faith by Govt of India in not giving Orissa permanent settlement; Lawrence's views on permanent land revenue settlements; Orissa Company's wat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Mar 1867
Extent:
1 item

588. Mss Eur F90/32A, no.19

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Mss Eur F90/32A, no.19
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Cranborne
Scope & Content:
Anxiety concerning lack of rain in Punjab; pity that three years were lost in deciding irrigation question; situation in Burma looks bad, where Lawrence would regret having to interfere; need is for 'consolidation of our administration in our old Provinces. Twenty years of peace wisely employed w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1867
Extent:
1 item

589. Mss Eur F90/32A, no.24

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Mss Eur F90/32A, no.24
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Fergusson
Scope & Content:
Acknowledges Fergusson's letter of 11 March; imprudence of sending missions to 'semi-civilized and barbarous races, over whom … we can practically bring no material power to bear'; mission to Ladakh a different case; regrets at Cranborne's resignations; Anson's motion in Commons; effective streng...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1867
Extent:
1 item

590. Mss Eur F90/32A, no.25

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F90/32A, no.25
Title:
Letter from Lawrence to Northcote
Scope & Content:
Complaint of Maj-Gen (Sir) O Cavenagh (former Governor of Straits Settlements) at treatment he and other former officers of Straits Settlements have received; grievances of Calcutta inhabitants against Licence tax; slowness of Finance member and limited influence Governor-General has over Council...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1867
Extent:
1 item