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Copies of official telegrams received in the Public Offices during May 1858, numbered 1 to 120 [originally included in a bundle labelled ‘No. 3 Copies of Official Telegrams Received in the Public Offices. During the Month of May 1858. Nos. 1 to 239’]. Includes the following telegrams:

Telegrams to Colonel R.J.H. Birch, Secretary, Government of India, Military Department, Allahabad, from:

Brigadier Gordon Commanding Benares; Officiating Military Secretary to Government, Calcutta; Colonel Beatson, Secunderabad; Brigadier General Sir E. Lugard, Camp Synial Ghat; Brigadier Showers, Agra; Brigadier Wheeler, Saugor; and Brigadier Edwards, Agra.

Telegrams to G.F. Edmonstone, Secretary, Government of India, Foreign Department, Allahabad, from:

Mr H. Vansittart, Futtehgurh; Mr H. Young, Chief Secretary, Bombay; Cecil Beadon, Secretary to Government of India Home Department, Calcutta; Sir John Lawrence, Chief Commissioner of the Punjab, Camp, and Jheelum; Mr G. Plowden, Commissioner of Nagpore; Captain James, Peshawar; Chief Commissioner, Lucknow; Major Andersen [or Anderson?], Bombay; Deputy Superintendent of Electric Telegraph, Agra; Mr E.A. Reade, Agra; Edmonstone Judge, Futtehpore; and C.H. Lushington, Financial Secretary to Government, Calcutta.

Telegrams to W. Muir, Secretary to Lord Canning’s Government in the North-Western Provinces, Allahabad, from:

Commissioner of Meerut; Major Eld, Allyghur; Mr A. Ross, Futtehgurh; Judge of Cawnpore; Mr H. Vansittart, Futtehgurh; Mr E. Harvey, Agra; Colonel Fraser, Agra; Mr R. Temple, Lahore; Mr E.A. Reade, Agra; Commissioner of Benares; Accountant, North-Western Provinces, Agra; and Mr Lindsay, Futtehpore.

Telegrams to the Secretary to the Government of India, Allahabad, from: Head Signaller, Calicut; Magistrate of Mirzapore; and Commissioner of Benares.

Telegrams to Lewin Bentham Bowring, Private Secretary to the Governor General, Allahabad, from: Officiating Post Master General, Calcutta; Assistant in Charge, Calcutta; Inspector in Charge, Calcutta; and Deputy Post Master General, Calcutta.

Telegrams to Colonel Charles Stuart, Military Secretary to the Governor General, Allahabad, from Major Williams, Meerut, and the Quarter Master General of the Army, Bareilly.

Telegrams to the Secretary to the Government of the North-Western Provinces, Allahabad, from the Commissioner of Benares, and C.H. Lushington, Financial Secretary to Government, Calcutta.