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Mss Eur F699/1/4/11/6
- Record Id:
- 040-003366487
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003256818
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100040141009.0x000001
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F699/1/4/11/6
- Title:
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Miscellaneous Letters, Notes and Papers
- Scope & Content:
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Miscellaneous letters, notes, and ephemeral material. Consists of:
Letter from Willliam Wilkins, St Petersburg, 13 Sep 1835, congratulating Canning on his marriage.
Invitation to Queen Victoria’s Coronation, 9 May 1838.
Printed booklet ‘On the Death of Lady Gwndalina Talbot, Princess Borghese, Ode by Cav. G. P. Campana, Translated by Maria Francesca Rossetti’, in Italian and English, after 1840. With covering letter in Italian by Campana (undated).
Notes on Parliamentary issues, including notes headed ‘Treaty of Paris. May 30 1814’ discusses the navigation of the Rhine, and notes headed ‘New Zealand (United States’, December 1840, and ‘New Zealand (France)’, 23 June 1840. Also brief notes in pencil regarding Hanover and Switzerland. Also note relating to objections to the establishment of a single Civil and Military Service, undated.
Copy of letter from William Yarrell to Lord Malmesbury, 13 Oct 1843 re: salmon fry.
Printed circulars relating to Grillion’s Club, regarding engravings of portraits of members, 1846-1849.
Newspaper cutting from letters to The Times re: Fixing ammonia in stables, 13 Aug 1851.
John Wilkinson, 22 Feb 1853, sending thanks to Lord Canning.
Letters from Lord & Lady Shelburn, 1853.
Note criticising Lord Raglan ‘in regard to the landing of Guards and the embarkation of the sick on the Sydney 1854’.
Letter from J.W. Percy, 4 May 1855, regarding model wooden hospitals, with copy.
Correspondence with John Rumsey re: Church Preferments, Aug-Nov 1855.
Correspondenc with the Duke of Portland, Sep-Oct 1855, regarding horses. Includes correspondence from the Lemington Veterinary Infirmary. Also enclosed letter from Percy Williams, regarding Lady Canning riding horses, 4 Sep 1855, and letter from John Evelyn Denison, Aug [1855].
Correspondence with Herbert Minton and Lord Cowley, Oct 1855, regarding two vases sent to Charles Canning as a present by the Emperor [of France, Napoleon III]. With envelope.
Letter from Harriet, Lady Clanricarde, Dec 13 [1855?].
Printed ‘Restoration of the Priory Church, Christchurch, Hants’ with image of the North Porch. Annotated ‘As now finished, 1861’.
Letter from Lord Lansdowne, 20 Dec n.y.
Lady Palmerston on behalf of Lord Palmerston, asking Canning to call. Undated.
Calling card from the Earl of Harrowby , requesting Canning’s company at dinner, 23 Feb n.y.
Letter from Caroline Norton, regarding ‘Italian letter’ to be returned. Undated.
Small ‘optical illusion’ pen and ink sketch of two women, probably by Charlotte Canning.
Poem, in French. Undated. Possibly authored by Charles Canning?
Three empty envelopes, marked ‘The Viscount Canning, 10 Grosvenor Square’, ‘Autographs’, and ‘Applications to Lord Canning’.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003256818
033-003309783
036-003353779
037-003366160
040-003366487 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur F699 : Papers of Charles Canning and Charlotte Canning, Earl and Countess Canning
Mss Eur F699/1 : Papers of Charles Canning, Viscount (later Earl) Canning
Mss Eur F699/1/4 : Personal Papers of Charles Canning
Mss Eur F699/1/4/11 : Papers relating to Personal, Family, and Miscellaneous Matters
Mss Eur F699/1/4/11/6 : Miscellaneous Letters, Notes and Papers - Hierarchy:
- 032-003256818[0001]/033-003309783[0004]/036-003353779[0011]/037-003366160[0006]/040-003366487
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F699
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 folder (55 items)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1835
- End Date:
- 1861
- Date Range:
- 1835-1861
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Former External References:
- WYL250/9/176/1/41
WYL250/9/176/4/21 - Information About Copies:
- Papers previously in file WYL250/9/179/4/21 were microfilmed as part of The Indian Papers of the Rt. Hon. Charles John, Earl Canning: Governor General (1856-1858) and Viceroy (1858-1862), ISBN (microfilms): 978 1-85117-080-7 (Wakefield: Microform Academic Publishers, 2007).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)