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Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/9
- Record Id:
- 041-002302965
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002302856
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001965.0x000131
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/9
- Title:
- Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning
- Scope & Content:
- Refers to Canning's letter of 25 November; gloom at Havelock's death; procedure for recommending honours; agrees on inadvisability of giving offence to Indian religious sensibilities but opinion in England, including Times, has become extremely anti-Muslim; Canning should be very cautious on question of compensation; has received Canning's comments on petition for his recall; unscrupulous attack by Lord Derby (Conservative leader in Lords) on Vernon Smith; two more regiments sent to Bombay – Elphinstone's anxiety that those that have suffered should be changed because if their 'awful' animosity against 'anything black'; trusts Campbell will no longer think of leaving Oudh now he has defeated Gwalior Contingent ('the force which I have all along most dreaded'); deeply regrets necessity of calling upon assistance from Nepal; policy towards native Princes who have behaved well will be big future problem; 'the system of government for the last 100 years seems to have broken down at once without teaching us how to build up a new structure that shall last another 10 or even 10 !'; intention to imprison King of Delhi at Cape; attitudes at home towards Canning are becoming more rational.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002302856
040-002302956
041-002302965 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur Photo Eur 474-477 : Photocopies of selected correspondence between Charles John Canning, Earl Canning (1812-62)
Mss Eur Photo Eur 476 : Letters from Vernon-Smith and the Earl of Ellenborough as successive Presidents of the Board of Control (Mar 1855-Mar 1858,…
Mss Eur Photo Eur 476/9 : Letter from Vernon Smith to Canning - Hierarchy:
- 032-002302856[0003]/040-002302956[0009]/041-002302965
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur Photo Eur 474-477
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1858
- End Date:
- 1858
- Date Range:
- 8 Jan 1858
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)