Mss Eur F699/2/5/30

Items in this file were damaged by fire in Charlotte Canning's tent, Dec 1859 and underwent conservation in 2017.

Wrapper ‘Nurses, Schools, Charities. The Viscountess Canning. India’

Printed appeal on behalf of the Calcutta Girls’ School, Feb 1860

4 letters from Ellen Mason, Calcutta, re: Karen education & Burma female schools, 1857-59? (one burned), with two letters from William Grey concerning Mrs Mason, Nov 1860. Also list of Mrs Mason’s collections in Calcutta, with payments to Dr Mason, 1856-57

Printed Third Report of the Burmah [Burma] Female School Society, and printed Extract from the Proceedings of the Committee for the Burmah Female School Society, 1861. Also accompanying letters from Rachel Brandis and unidentified, Aug & Sep 1861

Printed Programme of the 26th Annual Examination of the Free Church of Scotland’s Institution in Calcutta, 1856, with newspaper article

Cecil Beadon, 22 Sep 1858 re: donation to Native Female School

Catherine Richards, Ballygunge, 17 May 1859, re: European Female Orphan School, with draft reply by Charlotte Canning

4 letters from Annie Wylie, re: payment of subscriptions, 1857-58

List of visits to schools by Charlotte Canning, 1856-57

E.[Elizabeth] H. Muir, [1858?] re: Girl’s School, Allahabad

B. Harris [1859], re: gift of books to Upper Orphan School, with draft letter by Charlotte Canning

J. Mackay to Dr Farquhar, Oct [1858], with pamphlet regarding the appeal of the ‘Soldier’s Friend & Army Scripture Readers’ Society’

Georgina M. Fergusson, Dec 1857, re: distributing prizes at the European Female Orphan Asylum

Alexander Duff to Dr Leckie May 1856, re: Bethune School

Anne Turner, Bethune School, Dec 1856, with attached enquiry into teaching at the school by Cecil Beadon

Notes by Charlotte Canning on school in Moorglyhatta [1856], with letter from Rev. John Milne

Two annotated printed circulars re: the Female Department of the Bengal Military Normal School, on the subject of Army School Mistresses, with accompanying paper by W. White, Dec 1859

Notes taken from Mrs Ingoll’s letters, Rangoon 10 Nov & 3 Dec, annotated ‘The Karens from Mrs Ingoll’s letters Burmah, Baptist Missionaries from America’

Henry Bartle Frere, off Bombay, 20 Apr 1857 re: proposed prayer by Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and extension of the episcopate in India (burned)

Cecil Beadon, 20 Feb, sends copy of the orders of Government of India sanctioning scheme of education via Church Missionary Society to Santals (burned)

Two drafts of notes on the Neutrality of Government with respect to Religion, undated (one burned), in wrapper 'Relating to Aunt C'.

Printed copy letter from Court of Directors to Governor General, 13 Apr 1858 re: Educational Proceedings in Behar

Notes ‘Despatch to the Secretary Government of Bengal, No. 1793’ by Cecil Beadon, 28 Nov re: education of Santals [1858?] (burned)

Newspaper article ‘Native Christians and the Government’ from the Calcutta Christian Intelligencer, Mar 1858

Lists of books sent by Charlotte Canning to school and hospitals, including to Dum Dum and Allahabad, with supporting correspondence, c1857-c1859

Sophia Cotton, re: nurses, Mar 1861, with accompanying printed appeal Female Nurses for the Wards of Hospitals

Handwritten ‘Account of the Officer’s Hospital in Calcutta’, with accompanying letter from Catherine Frere, undated

Correspondence from Richard J.H. Birch, Sep & Oct 1858 re: proposed rules for nurses at Allahabad, with notes by Charlotte Canning

R.A. Hyndman, Adelaide, Aug 1859 re: nurse named Miss Grisdale (burned)

Eleanor Seton Karr re: refuge for women, undated

Lady M. C. [Margaret Clementina] Outram re: Ellerton Home, Nov & Dec 1858, with draft reply by Charlotte Canning, Nov 1858

Printed circular for the Officers’ Widow & Orphan Permanent Fund, established 1855

Bundle of correspondence entitled ‘Begging letters’, consisting of applications for relief, relating to Miss Scott, Miss Smith, Miss Niemeyer, Mrs Isabella Horn, Mrs Eliza Stewart & Mrs Cannon.