Mss Eur F699/1/2/2/77

Contains docketed sets of papers, numbered 1826 to 1850, consisting of correspondence, relating to applications for posts and other matters. These papers were originally included in one bundle of one hundred docketed sets of papers, labelled ‘No. 18 Private Secretary’s Correspondence, Nos. 1801 to 1900’. Each numbered set of papers usually consists of an original letter sent to the Private Secretary to the Governor General, or to the Governor General, a copy of the reply from the Private Secretary, Gerald Chetwynd Talbot, and any other papers. In addition, for each set of papers, either on the back of the original letter, or on a separate sheet of paper, is written the number of the set of papers, the year, the name of the writer of the original letter, the official position and location of the sender, the date the letter was despatched, the date it was received, the date it was answered, any cross references to other papers, and a brief summary of the letter. Numbers 1826, 1840, 1841, 1843, and 1847 have a red cross on them, to indicate that they ‘may be preserved’, whilst ‘the rest may be destroyed’.

1826. April 1857. Letter from Mr F D Lucas, Camp Etah in Bahraitch. Asks for permission to proceed to Katmandu to establish a branch agency there, and if there can be no European Agent there he would wish to go with an Interpreter and after he has gained some knowledge return to Oudh and leave his Interpreter as his Agent. Copy of letter to Major Ramsay; draft reply to Lucas, the Nepalese Durbar have very frequently and in very strong terms objected to the admission of any European to reside in Nepal for any purpose whatsoever; Mr Cameron with the greatest difficulty got permission to send a native agent. Mr Lucas' only course is to apply to Major Ramsay for a like privilege. See also 1935.

1827. April 1857. Letter from Major R Thorpe, Bengal Invalid Establishment, Calcutta. Asks for an appointment in Calcutta or Oudh, being ill and in debt. Copy of reply, refused. Endorsed Major Thorpe had invested his all 40,000 Rupees in the Eastern Bank and is ruined or reduced to poverty.

1828. April 1857. Letter from Armogour Mottoveloe Chettiar, merchant of Jaffna, Trevandrum.

Asks for justice against the Government of Trevandrum. Copy of reply, refused.

1829. April 1857. Letter from Mr G F Edmonstone Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department. Replies about Major Hopkinson's problem of etiquette. See also 1791.

1830. April 1857. Letter from Mr G F Edmonstone Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department. Sends a letter received from General Cox, recommends Lieutenant Fisher, 30th Native Infantry for some appointment better suited to his crippled condition than an Adjutancy in an Irregular Regiment of Cavalry. See also 1860, 1885.

1831. April 1857. Letter from Mr Henry Gersse, Calcutta. Now a Purser's Assistant on board the 'Nubia' asks for an allowance to purchase an outfit for the voyage. 1/2 anna stamp. Copy of reply, refused.

1832. April 1857. Letter from Major L H Hamilton, Private Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, Darjeeling. Apologises for franking a letter from the Lieutenant Governor to the Governor General. Copy of reply about this and other matters.

1833. April 1857. Letter from Messrs Newman and Company, Calcutta. Sends a book to the Private Secretary (not enclosed).

1834. April 1857. Copy of a memorandum about the Governor General's bodyguard.

1835. April 1857. Letter from the Reverend G Lovely, Junior Chaplain Old or Mission Church, Calcutta

Acknowledges the Governor General's donation to the Mission to Seamen in Calcutta. See also 1821.

1836. April 1857. Letter from Mr C Van Cortlandt, Deputy Commissioner of Dehra Ghazee Khan, Googaira. Encloses Lord Dalhousie's reply to his letter asking his Lordship to assist him in obtaining for him a Companionship of the Bath, (no longer enclosed) and as His Lordship has now no connection with the Government of India, and as the Horse Guards and the Court of Directors have declined to move in the matter unless the claim was recommended by the Head of the Government of India, asks the Governor General to recommend him. Copy of reply, refused.

1837. April 1857. Letter from Dr G A Watson Assistant Surgeon 2nd Company 6th Battalion Artillery, Mhow. Asks to be Officiating Resident Surgeon at Indore. Note from Major Bouverie.

1838. April 1857. Letter from Dr John Brown late Officiating Resident Surgeon at Nepal, Dinapore.

Applies for an appointment.

1839. April 1857. Letter from Mr J W Mountjoy, Civil Assistant Surgeon, Akyab. Asks to be Civil Assistant Surgeon at Penang. Copy of reply, apply to Governor of Straits Settlement.

1840. c. April to May 1857. Letter from Sir H M Lawrence Chief Commissioner of Oudh. Asks that if the Governor General will agree to Captain Nixon remaining at Bhurtpore instead of going to his regiment ordered to Persia, he might be telegraphed at Bhurtpore. Has given up his idea of going out into the Districts for the present. One of his difficulties is the Native Press, 9 weekly papers. The arrival of the 19th is awaited with some anxiety. Telegraph Message Sent number 54, 111.

1841. April to May 1857. Letter from Mr R T Larmour, Indigo Planter, Mulnath. Forwards his remarks on the present working of the Criminal Courts. Copy of reply, acknowledgement and remarks.

1842. April 1857. Letter from Dr R Bird MD, Assistant Surgeon, Artillery, Lucknow. Asks to be made Superintendent of a Hospital for the native insane, in the event of such an institution being erected at Lucknow. Copy of reply, application noted. See also 1775, 1916.

1843. 1857. Letter from Mr M Carter, Lucknow about the mismanagement of affairs in Oudh.

1844. Letter from Captain H. Hoseason, in Military Secretary's Correspondence. See Mss Eur F699/1/3/2/70, item 3487.

1845. April 1857. Letter from Mr James Radcliffe, Section Writer in the Foreign Department, Calcutta. Forwards a Memorial about his leave. Letter from Mr Edmonstone; copy of reply, the Governor General will not interfere in this matter.

1846. April 1857. Letter from Colonel W E Baker, Secretary to the Government of India, Public Works Department. Replies about Mr Manning's petition. Copy of earlier letter asking for information. See also 1822, 1890.

1847. April 1857. Letter from Mr J W Roche, Post Master, Cawnpore. Submits a bill for the conveyance of hill birds. Copy of reply sending payment. See also 1947.

1848. April 1857. Letter from Sahib Allum Sultan Timoor Mirza, alias Sultan Fazul Moolk, Chundernagore. Asks for a reply to his request for an interview. Copy of reply, sending copy of earlier reply. See also 1576, 1889, 2318, 1869.

1849. April to May 1857. Letter from Mr C Sharp, Superintendent of the Barrackpore Park. About the state of the Park. The hill birds are kept with the squirrels. Copy of reply, please separate the birds and the squirrels. See also 1865.

1850. April 1857. Letter from Mr W Purdon, Civil Engineer, Calcutta. Asks for a copy of the Minute of the Government of India on the Eastern Bengal Railway.