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Mss Eur F699/2/5/26

Record Id:

040-003346615

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003256818

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100035864709.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Mss Eur F699/2/5/26

Title:

India Letters Received

Scope & Content:

Contains the following correspondence to Charlotte Canning:

Wrapper ‘India Letters &c 1861’

4 letters from Annie Bayley, undated

Bayley, Cawnpore, undated

Jane Birch, Darjeeling, 24 Aug 1861

2 letters from John Peter Grant, Alipore, 19 Aug 1861 & 4 Sep 1861

2 letters from E. Scott, undated

8 letters from Isabella Forbes, Calcutta 28 Jan 1861, 6 Sep 1861 & undated

3 letters from Eleanor Seton Karr, 1 Jul, 7 Jul & undated

25 letters from Catherine Frere, Barrackpore 26 Dec 1860, Ballygunge 10 Jan, 13 Feb, 19 Jun 1861 & undated

E.A. Durand, undated

3 letters from Henry Thuillier, Surveyor General’s Department, to Lewin Bowring, 25 Jun & 19 Aug 1861 & undated

Macleod Wylie, 20 Aug 1861

Note ‘To Lady Canning with Mr John Stalkartts Respectful Compliments’

3 letters from Georgiana Campbell, Galle, Sunday 19 & incomplete, & Aden, SS Simla, 29 May

Edward Fitzgerald Campbell, 10 May

Incomplete letter, SS Simla at Madras (possibly Georgiana Campbell)

Agnes Beadon, Point de Galle, 30 Apr 1861

William Denison, Government House [Madras], 2 Jun 1861

Susan Denison, Madras, 6 Jun

2 letters from Charles Denison, Madras, 23 Apr & 3 Jun 1861

3 letters from Margaret Mansfield, Bombay 18 Jan 1861, 14 Mar 1861 & 13 May 1861

Louisa Brandreth, Mussoorie, 20 May 1861

2 letters from Josephine Hayes, in French, Chandernagore, 8 May & 10 May, with envelope, also draft reply by Charlotte Canning in French.

E. Cox to Major Bowie, undated

Sophie Taylor, 24 Jun 1861

James William Bayley Money, 18 May 1861 to Major Bowie

6 letters from Caroline Devereux, Calcutta, 25 Jan 1861, 4 Feb, 28 Jun, 1 Jul & 2 undated

Frederick Seymour, Subathoo, 12 Jun 1861

3 letters from Hugh Rose, 19 Jul, & undated, including about possible ADC

A. Sharp, Barrackpore, 1 Jul 1861 re: getting daughter into La Martiniere [school]

Ligertwood, Aden, 11 May re: health of Cecil Beadon

3 letters from W. [William]. Grey, 5 Jun, 24 Jun 1861 & 25 Jun re: visit to Bethune School

2 letters from Lewin Bowring, Calcutta, 25 Feb 1861 & 11 Jun

Charles Bowie, Government House [Calcutta], 21 Feb [1861] re: death of Lord Dalhousie

?F.Wilson, Chowringhee, undated

Gholam Mohumed [Ghulam Muhammad], Russapagla, 25 Mar 1861

Unidentified to ‘Dear Sir’ 7 Apr, declining invitation due to lack of proper dress

3 letters from E.[Elizabeth]. M. Cavenagh, Penang 24 Feb, 28 Feb & Singapore 28 Jun

2 letters from Anne Lindsay Wyld, Ballygunge, 8 & 10

Charles Wingfield to Major Bowie undated

2 letters from Sophia Cotton, Bishop’s Palace Calcutta, undated & 9 Apr

Note to Charlotte Canning re: 'being disobedient & naughty & taking your cup of tea', signed 'C. for Charlie', undated

Robert Napier, 24 Apr

Henry B. Harington to Major Bowie, undated

M.A. Wells, 15 Mar 1861

Isabella Fitzsimons, Simla, 5 Mar 1861 [previously Isabella Rain, Charlotte Canning's maid]

Augusta Ritchie [wife of William Ritchie], undated

Maria Hollans?, undated

Baroness de Fabek, 27 Apr, encloses calling card

Richmond Shakespear, Indore, 25 May 1861

J. Anstruther Thomson, undated

Translation of the Khureeta from the Nawab Secunder Begum of Bhopal, 12 Mar 1861, with draft reply by Charlotte Canning, 15 May 1861

Collection Area:

India Office Records and Private Papers

Project / Collection:

India Office Private Papers

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003256818
033-003309784
036-003316134
040-003346615

Is part of:

Mss Eur F699 : Papers of Charles Canning and Charlotte Canning, Earl and Countess Canning
Mss Eur F699/2 : Papers of Charlotte, Lady Canning
Mss Eur F699/2/5 : India Correspondence & Papers

Mss Eur F699/2/5/26 : India Letters Received

Hierarchy:

032-003256818[0004]/033-003309784[0005]/036-003316134[0026]/040-003346615

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F699

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 folder (111 items, including wrapper)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1861

End Date:

1861

Date Range:

1861

Era:

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WYL250/10/2/12

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