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Mss Eur F699/1/4/7/6
- Record Id:
- 040-003370186
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003256818
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100041692148.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F699/1/4/7/6
- Title:
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Miscellaneous correspondence, mostly sent before departure to India
- Scope & Content:
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File of miscellaneous correspondence and papers, arranged alphabetically, with note ‘Miscellaneous 1855 & 1856’. Includes letters relating to preparations for departure and requests for patronage, as well as details of political situation in India, Persia, and Burma. The bulk of the correspondence was sent to Canning before departure to India. Correspondents include:
Lord Ashburton with enclosure of address to Royal Asiatic Society
Lieutenant Colonel J. Bentham
Charles Bird enclosing article on 'The Austrian Alliance'
Edgar A Bowring refusing post of Private Secretary
Sir John Bowring regarding China
P. Browne
Major General Butterworth
John Hales Calcraft enclosing extract from Lord Dalhousie on Public Works Loan
John Capper
Sir George Couper regarding chef Monsieur Crépin, chef at Government House
M. F. Crisp enclosing letters about Burma and copy of the Pegu Gazette dated 19 May 1855
Lord Glenelg enclosing printed memorandum on 'The Trade of Russia with China' by W. Edwards
W. Hamilton
Viscount Hardinge enclosing letter of introduction for James Hume and printed prospectus for the East India Steam Navigation Company
Messrs Hickie Bowman enclosing Austrian Lloyd's Steam Packet Company's handbook for passengers taking the Trieste route to India and Australia
James Weir Hogg
William Jerdan enclosing printed prospectus of the Army and Navy Pensioners Employment Society
Earl of Melville enclosing wine price list for Messrs. J. Cockburn & Campbell
Charles A. Murray enclosing extract of letter from Captain Jones to Captain Kemball, Bushire, dated 26 June 1855
Bishop of Oxford [Samuel Wilberforce] enclosing note from Dr Kay, Principal of Bishop's College Calcutta
Messrs Phillips, King & Co.
Francis Horsley Robinson enclosing newspaper cuttings from The Indian News dated 5 Nov 1855, regarding the murder of Mr Conolly, and news from Oude
James R. Hope Scott
J. B. Sharpe enclosing printed draft prospectus of the Chartered Colonial Fibre Company, and printed return of the House of Commons regarding quantities of Flax and Hemp imported into Britain from 1801-1853, dated 26 June 1854
Henry Sweet
Sir Charles Trevelyan
Sir Henry Ward
James Pattison Walker
Miss Wheeler
Messrs Wood & Sons, Florists, enclosing printed Catalogue of Roses, 1854
- 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
040-003370186 - 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 F699/1/4/7/6 : Miscellaneous correspondence, mostly sent before departure to India - Hierarchy:
- 032-003256818[0001]/033-003309783[0004]/036-003353779[0007]/037-003359527[0006]/040-003370186
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F699
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 folder (80 items, including wrappers and covering notes)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1854
- End Date:
- 1856
- Date Range:
- Jun 1854-Feb 1856
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Former External References:
- WYL250/9/176/2/8
- 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)