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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F699/2/2
Title:: Journals
Scope & Content:: Charlotte Canning's personal journals, which have been arranged into three separate sub-series: Mss Eur F699/2/2/1/: British & European Journals, 1840-1852 Mss Eur F699/2/2/2: India Journals, 1855-1861: Almost all of the original journals were damaged by fire in Dec 1859 and are in a fragi...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1840-1861
Extent:: 12 volumes & 1 folder

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F699/2/2/2
Title:: India Journals
Scope & Content:: Charlotte Canning's original journals, recording her day to day activities and experiences, after leaving England. Includes details of the voyage to India via Egypt; daily life in India, including meetings, lunches, balls and other social activities; visits to Barrackpore with Charles Canning; s...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1855-1861
Extent:: 5 volumes, 8 fascicules, 3 boxes & 1 folder

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F699/2/2/1
Title:: British & European Journals
Scope & Content:: Journals kept by Charlotte Canning written during a European tour with Charles Canning by yacht, 1840-41, on Royal visits accompanying Queen Victoria as a Lady of the Bedchamber, 1843-45, and on visits to Scotland and Spain with Charles Canning by yacht, 1850-52.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1840-1852
Extent:: 2 volumes & 4 folders

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F699/2/2/3
Title:: India Copy Letter Journals
Scope & Content:: Charlotte Canning's 'fair copy' journals, which she transcribed and extended from her original notebook journals (Mss Eur F699/2/2/2). These journals contain more elaborate detail than the original journals, are were send to her mother Lady Stuart de Rothesay and sister Louisa, Marchioness of Wa...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1855-1861
Extent:: 2 volumes & 4 folders

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F699/2/2/2/2
Title:: India Journal
Scope & Content:: Charlotte Canning's journal recording her activities in India from Sep 1856 onwards. Some entries are brief diary entries, other longer entries record her experiences in more detail. Includes pasted in newspaper cuttings from Feb to Jun 1857 recording military action in Persia, and then the begi...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 Sep 1856-29 Jun 1857
Extent:: 1 volume & 1 fascicule (6 items, 7 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F699/2/2/2/3
Title:: India Journal
Scope & Content:: Charlotte Canning's journal recording her activities and experiences in India, particularly in relating to the uprising or 'Mutiny'. Contains intelligence as it was received in Calcutta, including rumours. Includes pasted in newspaper cuttings, primarily relating to the 'Mutiny'. Volume origin...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jun 1857-Dec 1857
Extent:: 1 volume & 3 fascicules (112 loose items, 136 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F699/2/2/2/4
Title:: India Journal
Scope & Content:: Charlotte Canning's journal recording her activities and experiences in India from Jan 1858, including entries of her trip to the Nilgiri Hills via Madras, and to Allahabad to join Charles Canning. Includes pasted in newspaper cuttings and telegrams recording the progress of the uprising in Indi...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jan 1858-Jan 1859
Extent:: 1 volume & 1 fascicule (35 items, 36 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F699/2/2/2/5
Title:: India Journal
Scope & Content:: Charlotte Canning's journal recording her experiences in India. Covers the first Viceroy's tour of Oct 1859-Apr 1860. Consists of a brief itinerary from Oct-Dec 1859; detailed journal entries begin on 20 Dec 1859 at Meerut. It is presumed this volume of the journal was started after the fire on ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 10 Oct 1859-10 May 1861
Extent:: 1 volume & 22 loose items (34 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F699/2/2/2/6
Title:: Fragments of India Journal
Scope & Content:: Burned fragments of Charlotte Canning's journal recording her experiences in India, with newspaper cuttings and other inserted notes. The original diary fragments have been conserved and housed in three boxes (Part 1, 2 & 3), and arranged into chronological order where material can be dated....
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Feb 1859-Oct 1859
Extent:: 3 boxes (25 sheets) & 2 fascicules (24 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F699/2/2/3/2
Title:: India Copy Letter Journal
Scope & Content:: Charlotte Canning's copy letter journal, written at Barrackpore and Calcutta, in wrapper. Includes pen & ink sketches, such as detailed plan of the house at Barrackpore, drawings of people, plants & birds. These journal parts were removed from family correspondence, 2016.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 28 Sep 1856-17 Nov 1856
Extent:: 1 folder (50 folios)

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