Topics of correspondence include news from Colonel John Low on how Lord Gough, Commander in Chief in India, is facing up to the enemies at Ramnagar (Mss Eur F88/138/1); Lord Elphinstone's comments on education in India (Mss Eur F88/138/3); Hay M Erskine's letters containing the news of Keith Erskine's death in India from confluent smallpox (for example Mss Eur F88/138/47); and Joseph Hume's queries on the Treaty of Satara in 1819 (Mss Eur F88/138/31). Some of the letters have brief annotations by Mountstuart Elphinstone regarding his response. Also includes draft letters by Elphinstone
Correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone for January to March 1849
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- Dates of Creation04 Dec 1848-29 Mar 1849
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