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Mss Eur F699/1/4/7/4
- Record Id:
- 040-003370169
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003256818
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100041684749.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F699/1/4/7/4
- Title:
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Correspondence with India Board and India House
- Scope & Content:
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Correspondence with Elliot Macnaghten, Dec 1855-Jan 1856, including draft by Canning regarding his stay in Egypt.
Copy of letter from Captain H. Johnson to Sir James Melvill, 4 Dec 1855 regarding Canning's stay in Egypt.
Drafts of Canning's letters to Robert Vernon Smith, Oct 1855-Feb 1856
Correspondence with Colonel William Henry Sykes, 11 Sep 1855-Jan 1856, enclosing various items including letter from Sir Henry Lawrence on the affairs of Rajpootana, memoranda ‘Notes on Political & Military condition of Aden' by Colonel Coughlan, and memoranda 'for a comprehensive system of Police in India'. Also letter from Sykes to Canning regarding 'Native Troops at the Cape and Mauritius', 'Security to our power from diversity of Religious Sects', and 'Danger of breaking down Native Gentry', dated 20 Nov 1855.
Letter from Sir Charles Wood, 22 Dec 1855, enclosing extracts of his letters to Lord Dalhousie dated 8 June 1854 & 23 Dec 1854, on the subject of the Legislative Council.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003256818
033-003309783
036-003353779
037-003359527
040-003370169 - 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 F699/1/4/7 : Papers Relating to India
Mss Eur F699/1/4/7/4 : Correspondence with India Board and India House - Hierarchy:
- 032-003256818[0001]/033-003309783[0004]/036-003353779[0007]/037-003359527[0004]/040-003370169
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F699
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 folder (20 items)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1855
- End Date:
- 1856
- Date Range:
- Sep 1855-Feb 1856
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Former External References:
- WYL250/9/176/1/17
- Information About Copies:
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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)