Items in this file were damaged by fire in Charlotte Canning's tent, Dec 1859 and underwent conservation in 2017. Contains the following correspondence to Charlotte Canning: Lord Granville, 25 Oct 1858 Edward Fitzgerald Campbell, undated, re: his wife’s illness 2 letters from Georgiana Campb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1858-1859
Extent:
1 folder (36 items, including photograph, 100 folios)
Items in this file were damaged by fire in Charlotte Canning's tent, Dec 1859 and underwent conservation in 2017. Wrapper ‘India 1857 & after’ Mrs M.C. [Margaret Clementina] Outram, 17 Mar, enclosing narrative of Mrs Innes’s escape from Gwalior A? Colvile [sister of James William Colvile]...
Military Secretary: Miscellaneous Applications & Recommendations
Scope & Content:
Series of correspondence, often containing testimonials or statement of services, applying for military positions, including speculative applications. Also correspondence asking for patronage for individuals, or recommending people for positions or promotion. Applications and recommendations ar...
Letters written to Charles Canning while Governor General of India, from Civil as opposed to Military sources. Consists of the following volumes: Letters from and to Queen Victoria (1 volume) Letters from Her Majesty's Ministers (1 volume) Letters from the Court of Directors of the East India...
Correspondence from Queen Victoria, written to Charlotte Canning in England and India. Letters written before Charlotte Canning's departure for India include invitation by the Queen for her to become Lady of the Bedchamber, 28 May 1842, with copy of Charlotte Canning's reply, and letter regardin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1842-1861
Extent:
1 folder (45 items, including wrappers, 125 folios)
Copies of Governor General's minutes, correspondence, dispatches and memorandums, on Military subjects, numbered 1-95, with index. For set of Charles Canning's copies of the Minutes of the Governor General in Council see also Mss Eur F699/1/1/6.
Governor General's Memorandums, nos. 1-549, issued by the Military Secretary's Office. Many of the Office Memorandums are directed to the Secretary to the Government of India Military Department (Sir Richard J.H. Birch), and refer to Military appointments or changes in Military personnel.