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Mss Eur F699/1/4

Record Id:

036-003353779

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003256818

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100037163810.0x000001

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ISAD(G)

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Mss Eur F699/1/4

Title:

Personal Papers of Charles Canning

Scope & Content:

Personal papers belonging to Charles Canning, originally contained in a series of chests, despatch boxes and lettered pigeon holes. Contains both material returned from India in 1862, and material that remained in England, being amalgamated with the India papers at a later date.

Papers relate to Charles Canning's role in British Politics in the 1840s and 1850s prior to his appointment as Governor General of India in 1855, and include information on foreign and international political affairs, as well as the running of the Post Office. There is a great deal of overlap between sequences relating to British politics and International Affairs, as well as between papers originally kept in Pigeon Holes. Additionally, papers relate to personal and family affairs.

India material includes items from a despatch box marked 'Peshawar', and material relating to Peshawar and the Punjab have been kept together. Other India related material has also been arranged together, and includes household accounts, as well as a sequence of letters written by Charlotte Canning to Charles Canning whilst on journeys to the Nilgiri Hills in Madras, from Allahabad to Calcutta, whilst staying at Barrackpore, travelling from Simla to the Himalayas and down the Ganges to Calcutta, as well as from her final trip to Darjeeling. These letters have been transferred from Charlotte Canning's papers (Mss Eur F699/2).

The personal papers series have been arranged by subject, chronologically, and alphabetically as appropriate, and in accordance with their original order where possible. They have been arranged into the following 11 sub-series:

Mss Eur F699 1/4/1: Early Career, 1834-38 (2 folders)

Mss Eur F699 1/4/2: Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1841-49 (7 folders & 1 volume)

Mss Eur F699 1/4/3: Postmaster-General, 1835-55 (5 folders)

Mss Eur F699 1/4/4: Papers Relating to British Politics, 1835-55 (11 folders)

Mss Eur F699 1/4/5: Papers Relating to International Affairs, 1827-55 (8 folders)

Mss Eur F699 1/4/6: Papers Filed in Lettered Pigeon Holes, 1823-55 (62 folders)

Mss Eur F699 1/4/7: Papers Relating to India, 1843-62 (1 volume & 49 folders)

Mss Eur F699 1/4/8: Papers from Despatch Box Marked ‘Peshawar’, 1855-60 (6 folders)

Mss Eur F699 1/4/9: Letters from Charlotte Canning to Charles Canning in India, 1858-61 (5 folders)

Mss Eur F699 1/4/10: Indian Household Accounts, 1856-62 (4 volumes & 1 folder)

Mss Eur F699 1/4/11: Papers Relating to Personal, Family, and Miscellaneous Matters, 1823-64 (14 folders & 1 box)

Collection Area:

India Office Records and Private Papers

Project / Collection:

India Office Private Papers

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003256818
033-003309783
036-003353779

Is part of:

Mss Eur F699 : Papers of Charles Canning and Charlotte Canning, Earl and Countess Canning
Mss Eur F699/1 : Papers of Charles Canning, Viscount (later Earl) Canning

Mss Eur F699/1/4 : Personal Papers of Charles Canning

Contains:

Mss Eur F699/1/4/1 : Early Career
Mss Eur F699/1/4/2 : Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Mss Eur F699/1/4/3 : Postmaster General
Mss Eur F699/1/4/4 : Papers Relating to British Politics
Mss Eur F699/1/4/5 : Papers Relating to International Affairs
Mss Eur F699/1/4/6 : Papers Filed in Lettered Pigeon Holes
Mss Eur F699/1/4/7 : Papers Relating to India
Mss Eur F699/1/4/8 : Papers from Despatch Box 'Peshawar'
Mss Eur F699/1/4/9 : Letters from Charlotte Canning to Charles Canning in India
Mss Eur F699/1/4/10 : Indian Household Accounts
Mss Eur F699/1/4/11 : Papers relating to Personal, Family, and Miscellaneous Matters

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Hierarchy:

032-003256818[0001]/033-003309783[0004]/036-003353779

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

Series

Extent:

7 volumes, 29 boxes (168 folders), 3 oversize portfolios & 1 despatch box

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1823

End Date:

1864

Date Range:

1823-1864

Era:

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