labelled "Papers Relating to Major Euan-Smith's application for examination in Persian out of British Territory 1870-71", consisting of part of a draft letter from C E-S, dated 11 March 1871, and a letter from the Board of Examiners' Office, Calcutta, to C E-S, dated 10 April 1871, refusing his request to take the examination in Persian while residing outside India. (According to the regulations, officers had to be residing in British India at the time of the examination and their period of residence had to be under 10 years.)
Enclosed in the letter from the Board of Examiners' Office is a letter from Lieutenant M.H. Court of the Bengal Cavalry to Captain Dunn, Superintendent of the Army School at Bengal, stating
that he [Court] is translating certain works from Persian and "as I believe, the soldiers & Non Commissioned officers in many of the Reg[imen]ts have taken to studying the native languages...",
offering to supply copies of each book to regimental schools in Bengal, March 1871 [the part of the document where the date is written is damaged].
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