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Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/82
- Record Id:
- 041-002303061
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002302856
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001965.0x000190
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/82
- Title:
- Letter from Stanley to Canning
- Scope & Content:
- Acknowledges Canning's very friendly letter of 24 July; will support Indian administration as private MP; has informed Wood of his plans for India and given him Canning's letters; was busy combating objections to Wilson as Canning's financial assistant when he left office; tendency in England to overrate Indian financial difficulties and to blame Indian authorities both in London and Calcutta unfairly for them; however, nothing would more favourably influence sentiment in England and make borrowing easier than reduction of native army by 50,000 to 80,000; Wood seems willing, as was Stanley, to give imperial guarantee for Indian requirements, and sentiment in Commons seems to have turned in its favour; accepts his share of responsibility for policy adopted on question of disbandment of disaffected local European troops; believes there will be much discussion in Commons next year of proposal to revert to pre-1854 system of a separate legislative body for each Indian Presidency – there is general conviction (apparently shared by Wood, the author of 1854 system) that central legislation for all India has been a failure, and Stanley agrees; favours admission of non-covenanted civil servants to higher grades to alleviate bitterness they feel regarding privileges in which they do not share; public works should be facilitated by local loans raised on security of works themselves; hopes Canning will return to England 'with health uninjured by labour such as few public men have ever had to endure. PS: warmly endorses Canning's decision on question of admitting missionaries to preach and teach in gaols; Exeter Hall agitation, which at one moment threatened to be formidable, appears to have passed off.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002302856
040-002302979
041-002303061 - 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 477 : Letters from Lord Stanley as President of the Board of Control (5 Jun-1 Sep 1858) and Secretary of State for India (2…
Mss Eur Photo Eur 477/82 : Letter from Stanley to Canning - Hierarchy:
- 032-002302856[0004]/040-002302979[0082]/041-002303061
- 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:
- 1859
- End Date:
- 1859
- Date Range:
- 15 Sep 1859
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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