Mss Eur F699/1/2/2/249

Contains docketed sets of papers, numbered 10051 to 10100, 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. 101 Private Secretary’s Correspondence, Nos. 10001 to 10100’. 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, Lewin Bentham Bowring, 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 10065, 10066, 10067, 10069, 10076, 10082, 10085, 10089, 10091, 10092, and 10095 have a red cross on them, to indicate that they ‘may be preserved’, whilst ‘the rest may be destroyed’.

10051. Feb 1862 Letter from Dr T Dillon, Assistant Surgeon in Medical Charge of Cherapoonjee, Calcutta. Applies for the post of Political Agent at Munneepore. Copy of reply, he has been appointed. See also 10058

10052. Feb 1862 Letter from Captain W Shakespear, Staff Corps, Madras. Asks for re-employment in the Political Department. Copy of reply, there are no vacancies.

10053. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr W Johnston, Joint Magistrate and Deputy Collector, Allahabad. Applies for the new post of Commissioner of Stamps for the North West Provinces. Letter no longer enclosed. Copy of reply, his letter will be dealt with in the Financial Department. See also 10073

10054. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr W H Brown, Lucknow. Asks for employment.

10057. Feb 1862 Letter from Colonel A P Phayre, Chief Commissioner British Burma, Akyab. Sends a letter from Major Ardagh to the Governor General asking to be recommended to the Governor General's successor. Governor General's Book number 2205; See also 9876, 10081

10058. Feb 1862 Letter from Dr T Dillon, Assistant Surgeon, in Medical Charge, Cherapoonjee, Calcutta. Returns thanks for his appointment as Political Agent at Munneepoor. See also 10051

10059. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr H J Rainey, Khoolnah, Jessore. Asks for an appointment. Note from Mr Grey. Copy of reply, His Excellency is unable to hold out any hope.

10060. Feb 1862 Letter from Lieutenant R S Robertson, late 6th Europeans, Adjutant, 21st Punjab Regiment, Camp, Burhee. Asks if there is any chance of his employment as a Civil officer. Copy of reply, there are no vacancies. See also 9766

10061. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr J A Salt, Lahore. Asks for employment, in the Civil Police or in a Native Cavalry Regiment.

10062. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr C A Browning, tutor to the sons of the Nuwab Nazim, Moorshedabad. Applies for a post as Assistant Commissioner. Copy of reply, there are no vacancies, and many applicants.

10063. Feb 1862 Letter from Baboo Beharee Lall Roy, Kalleeghat. Sends a petition asking for employment in British Burma. Copy of reply, there are no vacancies.

10064. Oct 1861 - Feb 1862 Letter from Mr J Burton, late Her Majesty's 5th Regiment, pensioner of Government. Asks for some staff employment, his pension being quite inadequate. Copy of reply, he should apply to Heads of Departments.

10065. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr A M Dowleans, in charge of the Bengal portion of articles for the London Exhibition, Calcutta. Sends a book of papers connected with the Indian contribution to the Exhibition of 1862 (Not enclosed). Copy of reply, grateful acknowledgement.

10066. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr T Dickson, Head Appraiser, Her Majesty's Customs, Calcutta. Asks for support for a work of tabular statements of imports by sea into Calcutta for 11 years ending 30 Apr 1862. Printed prospectus enclosed. Copy of reply, two copies may be sent to Private Secretary's Office.

10067. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr C B Saunders, Officiating Commissioner of Mysore, Bangalore. Writes introducing Captain Pearse, 1st Assistant and Secretary of the Mysore Commission, who has a scheme for the revision of the Mysore Commission, which he is to submit officially if the Private Secretary thinks the Governor General will receive it favourably, and also pass orders upon it before leaving India; otherwise he is not to send it in, and it will be replaced by an application for an increase to the present staff. If the Commission is placed upon the footing of the Oudh and Nagpore Commissions, the work will be very efficiently done. See also 9892, 10068

10068. Feb 1862 Letter from Captain J L Pearse, 1st Assistant and Secretary of the Mysore Commission, Calcutta. Sends two letters from Mr Saunders, the Commissioner (not enclosed), and hopes to call on 12 Feb with the Wellesley papers and the scheme for the revision of the Commission. See also 10067, 10069

10069. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr C B Saunders, Officiating Commissioner of Mysore, Bangalore. Has entrusted Captain Pearse with two volumes of the Duke of Wellington's original correspondence with the Resident of Mysore (marked, ''sent to Colonel Durand') during the time Wellington was in command of the British forces in the Mysore Territories. These volumes belong to his Office, but he has thought it desirable to send them to Calcutta so that the Governor General may convey them to England and deposit them in the British Museum or the State Paper Office. All the letters have been printed in the Mysore Government Press. Copy of reply, the Governor General says Saunders should not have sent up the volumes of Wellington's letters. As Officiating Commissioner, he has no authority to dispose of records, to deprive the Commissioner of the originals, or to print copies for circulation. It is still less becoming for Saunders to announce that the Governor General will be requested to take the papers to England, without making reference to the Governor General. The British Museum is not a place of deposit for modern documents, and there is no better reason for sending the papers to England, than for sending the original papers of Warren Hastings or Lord Wellesley. Further comments. The papers will now be placed among the records of Government, in Calcutta. He is not to distribute any more copies of the printed volume, and is to remove the Preface in the undistributed copies, which should be deposited in the Commissioner's Office. He states in the Preface that the letters have been printed verbatim, whereas in the edition printed in England, various passages were suppressed or modified. To print these passages was a proceeding of very questionable propriety. Miscellaneous books number 348; Telegraph Messages received number 1392; See also 10067, 10068, 10104

10070. Feb 1862 Letter from Lieutenant Colonel G W Bishop, Officiating Superintendent of Stationery, Calcutta. Applies for the post of Superintendent of Darjeeling. Copy of reply, acknowledgement.

10071. Feb 1862 Letter from Lieutenant Colonel J G Balmain, Officiating Deputy Commissioner, Nagpore. Represents the circumstances of his case, complaining of his lack of substantive appointment, and loss of income. Copy of reply, he should complain officially. Comments.

10072. Feb 1862 Letter from Lieutenant J Ducat, Bombay Staff Corps, Officiating Assistant Commissioner Central Provinces, Hosungabad. Complains of supercession, asks for redress. Copies of extracts. Note from Mr Aitchison. Copy of reply, he should complain officially. Comments

10073. Feb 1862 Letter from Birrendra Vickram Shah, 4th Prince of Nepal, Benares. Owing to the death of Maharana Suroop Singh the arrangements for the writer's support have fallen through; he has applied to Colonel Durand to give advice on the matter, through the Agent, to the present Kuharana. Asks for the application to be disposed of, before His Excellency leaves India. Letter no longer enclosed. Copy of reply, his letter has been transferred to the Foreign Department. See also 9383

10074. Feb 1862 Letter from Captain W Shakespear, Staff Corps, Madras. Asks for employment in the Mysore Commission.

10075. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr A D'Monk, Deputy Collector and Magistrate, Tanjore District, Nagapatam. Asks for a transfer to the Central Provinces. Copies of papers (not enclosed). Copy of reply, there are no vacancies.

10076. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr C U Aitchison, Under Secretary to Government Foreign Department Calcutta. Sends a letter from the Officiating Civil Pay Master, North West Provinces, asking if the new scale of salaries for the Central Provinces is to date from 2 Nov 1861, or 7 Jan 1862. Copy of reply, the appointments should have effect from 2 Nov except for Mr Campbell, who joined the Commission after 7 Jan 1862.

10077. Feb 1862 Letter from Lieutenant R M Skinner, late 56th Native Infantry, Adjutant Ramgurh Cavalry, Dorunda, Chota Nagpore. Asks for employment in the Civil or Police Department. To Military Secretary. Copy of reply, there are no vacancies.

10078. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr C H Lushington, Secretary to Government Financial Department, Calcutta. Replies about the appointment of Commissioner of Stamps for the North West Provinces, and for Oudh. Printed enclosure. Copy of earlier letter, asking for information. See also 10053

10079. Feb 1862 Letter from Colonel H M Durand, Officiating Secretary to Government Foreign Department, Calcutta. Sends a note which implies that Captain Sherer has returned to Calcutta.

10080. Feb 1862 Copy of a letter to Mr G L Prendergast, Lowndes St, London. The Governor General declines to enter upon a case which has been finally disposed of. Governor General's Book number 2223

10081. Feb 1862 Copy of a letter to Major R D Ardagh, Rangoon. Replying that His Excellency declines to recommend Ardagh to Lord Elgin for promotion. He is not justified in claiming that he has been superseded. Governor General's Book number 2205; See also 9876, 10057

10082. Feb 1862 Copy of a letter to Colonel H M Durand, Calcutta. Asking him to pass orders countermanding the removal of the treasure, the guard, and agency servants on Major McCulloch's departure from Munipoor. See also 10045

10083. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr W Brett, Editor of the Englishman, Calcutta. Sends a letter just received by the Bombay Express from Mr E P Whipple, on the popular feeling in America (not enclosed).

10084. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr C U Aitchison, Under Secretary to the Government Foreign Department, Calcutta. Forwards the Durbar Account for Jan 1862 (No longer enclosed). Copy of reply, returning this.

10085. Feb 1862 Letter from Major W McCulloch, late Political Agent of Munneepore, Calcutta. Fears that Dr Dillon may have misrepresented him. Copy of reply, Dr Dillon said nothing to the Governor General of the kind which McCulloch fears. See also 10089

10086. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr C B Denison, Magistrate and Collector of Mirzapore, Camp. Applies for the post of Judicial Commissioner Central Provinces. Copy of reply, it has been offered to an officer; should he refuse it, Denison will be considered.

10087. Feb 1862 Letter from Captain T G Montgomerie, Engineers, 1st Assistant Great Trigonometrical Survey, Dehra Dhoon. Asks for his claims to be made Superintendent, Great Trigonometrical Survey to be considered. Copy of reply, asking if the post is to become vacant. See also 10163

10088. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr L Marks, Secretary, Calcutta Trades Association, Calcutta. Sends two copies of the Association's Report for 1861 (not enclosed). Copy of reply, acknowledgement.

10089. Feb 1862 Letter from Major W McCulloch, late Political Agent, Munipore, Calcutta. Writes further to his letter of 17 Feb. See also 10085

10090. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr A M Dowleans, in charge of the Bengal articles for the London Exhibition, Calcutta. Returns thanks for his appointment as Special Agent for the Government of India at the forthcoming London Exhibition, and asks when he may send for the Governor General's inspection the Cuttack filigree work.

10091. Feb 1862 Letter from Dr T Anderson, Superintendent, Botanic Gardens. Asks for orders in connection with the Cinchona plants. Wishes to take them to the outer ranges about Darjeeling. Wishes for a European gardener at once, and sanction of his estimates. Asks to be appointed Director of the Cultivation of Cinchona in the Bengal Presidency. Copy of reply, orders have been passed. His Excellency believes he should remain under the orders of the Bengal Government.

10092. Feb 1862 Letter from Monsieur Jules Lombard, French Consul, Calcutta. Is compelled to leave for France at once, and asks for an interview with the Governor General. In French. Copy of reply, arranging interview.

10093. Feb 1862 Letter from Captain P J Deverill, 90th Light Infantry, Allahabad. Asks for civil employment. Copy of reply, application noted.

10094. Feb 1862 Letter from Lieutenant H F de Lousada, Quarter Master and Interpreter, 51st Madras Native Infantry, Mangalore. Asks for a junior Commissioner's post in the Central Provinces or Oudh. To Major Bowie. Copy of reply, acknowledgement.

10095. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr J N Tresidder, late Civil Surgeon, Cawnpore, Calcutta. Sends a copy of the photograph of the cross for the well near Wheeler's Entrenchment at Cawnpore. Will send more copies if required. Copy of reply, the Governor General would be glad to have more copies sent him, at Grosvenor Square.

10096. Feb 1862 Letter from Ensign P Dwyer, on half pay, 88th Regiment, Agra. Regrets having sent the Governor General a foolish letter in a moment of temporary insanity. See also 9885

10097. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr J M Maclure, East India Railway Chief Engineer's Office, Calcutta. Sends two copies of the half yearly Report on the works of the East India Railway (Not enclosed). Copy of reply, acknowledgement.

10098. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr W G Allan, Head Assistant, East India Railway, Etawah. Asks for a post as Extra Assistant Commissioner in the Central India Commission. Copy of reply, there are no vacancies.

10099. Feb 1862 Letter from Major A Ternan, Deputy Commissioner 1st class, Jaloun Orae. Explains why he applied for promotion in the Central Provinces. See also 10021

10100. Feb 1862 Letter from Mr J Eede, Officiating Civil Pay Master, Punjab, Lahore. Advises despatch of a copy of the 1st part of the Civil Pay Master's Manual. Copy of reply, grateful acknowledgement.