Sir John Kaye's Mutiny Papers.

(1) pp. 1-9, J. Abbott to -- 27th March 1857. (See H/725 (12).) (2) pp. 11-9, Extract from a Speech by Lord Derby 29th March 1857 on the exploits of Mr. Venables (an Indigo Planter), Charles Gubbins (Judge of Aligarh), Alonzo Money (Magistrate of Gaya), William Tayler (Commissioner of Patna) and Gen. James Neill. (3) pp. 21-2, Lieut.-Col. W. St. Leger Mitchell to Major Ross 24th April 1857, The dying speech of Issurree Pandy. (4) pp. 23-5, Notes by Lieut.-Col. H. Fraser (Chief Engineer), Agra, 13th May 1857. (5) pp. 27-9, Major J. A. Weller and Lieut.-Col. H. Fraser to the Lieutenant-Governor of the N.W.P. 8th June 1857, Necessity of providing a Refuge for the Women. (6) pp. 31-4, Memorandum by Major Weller 10th June 1857 for the preparation of a Memorial to the Lieutenant-Governor. (7) pp. 35-56, Diary Letter from E. Keen (?) to --, 31st March to 8th June 1857 (Original). (8) pp. 57-67, G. C. Barnes (Commissioner of the Cis-Sutlej States) to Sir John Lawrence 16th [April] 1857. (9) Sir John Lawrence (Chief Commissioner and Political Agent, Punjab). pp. 69-71, 137-9, 143-9, 151-61, 583-9, to Viscount Canning 13th to 23rd May 1857; pp. 73-7, 577-85, 593-5, to Gen. George Anson 3rd to 27th May 1857; pp. 77-9, 83-5, 131-5, 141-3, 155, to Lieut.-Col. H. B. Edwardes 13th May to 24th July 1857; pp. 81-3, to Lieut.-Col. Neville B. Chamberlain 13th May 1857; pp. 85-7, to Lieut.-Col. J. D. Macpherson (Military Secretary, Punjab) 14th May 1857; pp. 87-91, to -- 21st May 1857; pp. 149-51, 589-93, to H. H. Greathed 9th July and 25th May 1857; p. 151, to Gen. Thomas Reed 9th July 1857; pp. 575-7, to R. Montgomery, n.d., with extract from Capt. Hodson relative to the capture of the King on 20th Sept. (10) pp. 93-5, 119-25, Brig.-Gen. Sydney Cotton (Commanding Peshawar Division) to Sir John Lawrence 13th May to 18th Aug. 1857. (11) pp. 97-107, Brig. P. Innes (Commanding at Firozpur) to Lieut.-Col. Charles Chester (Adjutant-General) 16th May 1857. (12) pp. 109-17, Lieut.-Col. H. B. Edwardes (Commissioner, Punjab) to Sir John Lawrence 27th May 1857. (13) pp. 127-9, Brig. Stuart Corbett (Commanding at Lahore) to -- 12th May 1857, the Firozpur affair. (14) pp. 163-221, Papers relating to the Mutiny of the 6th N.I. at Allahabad, mostly from Brevet-Col. D. Simpson (54th N.I.), then in command at Allahabad -- June to September 1857; pp. 1299-300, Memo. anent the Fatal Parade [of 6th June]. (See Kaye and Malleson, II, 182 et seq.) (15) Viscount Canning (Governor-General). pp. 223-33, to the Board of Control, n.d., The change in the character of the Mutiny from a religious grievance to a political revolution; pp. 233-5, to J. R. Colvin 10th June 1857; pp. 237-9, to the Hon. Vernon Smith (President of the Board of Control) 5th June 1857. (16) pp. 241-3, Index to Appendix to Neill (i.e. Gen. James Neill) Papers. (17) pp. 245-300, Appendix to Neill Papers June to September 1857, including letters from Sir P. Grant (Acting Commander-in-Chief), Sir Henry Havelock, Sir James Outram, J. R. Colvin and G. C. Barnes, also Instructions to Capt. Spurgin, Major Renaud and his own successor at Allahabad. (18) pp. 301-415, Major-Gen. Thomas Reed to Sir John Lawrence June to August 1757, with Journal 31st May to 6th July 1857. (19) pp. 415-9, 443-522, 553-6, H. H. Greathed to Sir John Lawrence 4th July to 18th Sept. 1857; pp. 421-3, 431-7, Extracts from News Letters; p. 425, to J. R. Colvin 26th June 1857. (20) pp. 425-6, Sir H. Barnard to Gen. A. Wilson 18th July 1857. (21) Major-Gen. A. Wilson (Commanding at Delhi). pp. 429, 889-93, to Col. Septimus Beecher 29th June and 18th Oct. 1857; pp. 525-53, to the Adjutant-General 12th Aug. 1857; pp. 857-60, to Major-Gen. W. H. Hewitt 12th Aug. 1857; pp. 861-2, 882-4, to Major-Gen. G. E. Gowan 14th Aug. to 27th Sept. 1857; pp. 862-3, 865-6, 870-3, 884-5, to Sir John Lawrence 18th Aug. to 28th Sept. 1857; pp. 863-4, 904, 907-9, to Major-Gen. N. Penny (Commanding at Meerut) 18th Aug. to 31st Dec. 1857; pp. 866-7, to Capt. R. Lawrence 18th Aug. 1857; pp. 867-9, to Capt. [W. S. R.] Hodson 20th Aug. 1857; pp. 874-8, to Viscount Canning 31st Aug. 1857; pp. 878-81, 887-9, to A. Brandreth 26th Sept. to 2nd Oct. 1857; pp. 881-2, to Secretary, Military Department, 26th Sept. 1857; pp. 885-6, to Lieut.-Col. J. D. Macpherson (Military Secretary, Punjab) 29th Sept. 1857; pp. 894-5, to G. F. Edmonstone (Secretary, Foreign Department) 24th Oct. 1857; pp. 895-6, to Adjutant-General, H.M.'s Forces [Col. H. Havelock] 28th Oct. 1857; pp. 897-8, to Col. R. J. H. Birch (Secretary, Military Department) 28th Oct. 1857; pp. 898-9, 909-11, to Capt. H. W. Norman (Assistant Adjutant-General) 13th Aug. 1857 to 9th Feb. 1858; pp. 900-1, to Sir Colin Campbell (Commander-in-Chief) 15th Nov. 1857; pp. 901-2, to Major W. A. Mayhew (Deputy Adjutant-General) 30th Nov. 1857; pp. 902-3, to Major-Gen. W. Mansfield (Chief of Staff) 30th Nov. 1857; pp. 905-6, to C. Saunders (Officiating Political Agent, Delhi) 28th Nov. 1857. (22) pp. 439-41, Lieut.-Col. Murray Mackenzie to -- 13th July 1857 (Original). (23) pp. 597-665, ? Gen. James Neill's Diary 21st June to 12th Sept. 1857. (24) pp. 667-718, Extracts from --'s Journal 27th June to 28th Sept. 1857. (25) pp. 719-21, Memorandum on Viscount Canning. (26) pp. 723-7, 729-36, Memoranda on the State of feeling in Calcutta and the State of feeling of the Natives; pp. 737-83, Memorandum by (?) Sir Orfeur Cavanagh. (27) pp. 785-9, J. R. Colvin (Lieutenant-Governor, N.W.P.) to Viscount Canning -- July 1857. (28) pp. 791-801, Memorandum on the three Passages of the Ganges at Cawnpore during the rainy season of 1857 by the Oude Force under Major-Gen. Sir Henry Havelock (Printed); p. 803, Illustrative Map of the same, Both by Capt. W. A. Crommelin (Chief Engineer, Oude Field Force) -- Feb. 1858. (29) pp. 805-12, Extract from Article in the Friend of India 6th Aug. 1857, ''How Cawnpore was lost.'' (30) pp. 813-6, News from Agra 12th Aug. 1857. (31) pp. 817-40, 847-53, 1160-8, 1471-91, G. B. Seton Karr (Magistrate of Belgaum) to H. L. Anderson 21st Aug. 1857 to 25th April 1860. (32) H. L. Anderson (Secretary, Bombay). pp. 841-3, 855-6, 921-30, 1169-71, to Seton-Karr 14th Sept. 1857 to 8th May 1858; pp. 845-6, to A. Bettington (Commissioner of Police, Poona) 14th Sept. 1857. (33) pp. 913-5, Memorandum by Major-Gen. G. E. Gowan 18th Aug. 1857 (incomplete). (34) pp. 917-20, Narrative of Events at Gorakhpur 13th to 23rd Aug. 1857 (about 2,100 words). (35) A. Brandreth (Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of the Punjab) pp. 931, 963-70, to Gen. A. Wilson 4th and 29th Sept. 1857; p. 955, to Brig.-Gen. John Nicholson 18th Sept. 1857. (36) pp. 933-53, Narrative of the storming of the Water Bastion Breach and a portion of the Caubul Gate (by the 8th King's) (about 600 words). (37) p. 957, Secretary, Punjab, to Secretary, Government of India, 1st June 1857, The Chief Commissioner's confidence in Brig. S. Cotton, Lieut.-Col. Edwardes and Lieut.-Col. Nicholson; pp. 957-8, R. Simson (Officiating Under Secretary) to Sir John Lawrence 11th Aug. 1857, The Governor-General's thanks to Cols. Chute (?) and Nicholson. (38) pp. 959-61, Major James Brind to Major F. Guitskell 23rd Sept. 1857. (39) pp. 971-3, Major-Gen. W. Mansfield (Chief of the Staff) to Major-Gen. A. Wilson 7th Oct. 1857. (40) pp. 975-87, Memorandum on reinforcements from Ceylon, Mauritius and the Cape. (41) pp. 991-2, Extract of a letter to Capt. Bruce at Cawnpore from Lucknow 28th Oct. 1857. (42) p. 993, Extract of letter from the Officiating Commissioner of Delhi to the Chief Commissioner of Lahore 22nd Nov. 1857. (43) pp. 995-7, Lieut. W. Gray to Major Brind 18th Dec. 1857 (Original). (44) p. 999, Extract from a letter to Gen. Penny 17th Dec. 1857. (45) pp. 1001-2, Lieut. E. Paske (Officiating Secretary, Punjab) to Major-Gen. A. Wilson 24th Dec. 1857. (46) pp. 1003-106, Edward Thornton (Commissioner and Superintendent, Jhelum Division) to R. Montgomery (Judicial Commissioner, Punjab) 23rd Feb. 1858, Report on Mutiny Operations in his [the Rawalpindi] Division (about 15,000 words). (47) pp. 1109-57, Evidence of Seetaram Bawa (suspected of connection with the revolt) given before H. B. Devereux (Judicial Commissioner of Mysore) and Capt. J. L. Pearse (Officiating Superintendent of the Ashtagram Division) 25th Jan. 1858. (48) pp. 1173-290, Journal of Col. Stuart (Military Secretary). (49) pp. 1291-3, Court of Directors to the Governor-General, Military Department, 1st Sept. 1858, Signed by Sir Frederick Currie (Last Chairman of the East India Company). (50) pp. 1295-7, Notes. (51) pp. 1301-4, Fragment. (52) pp. 1305-9, Memorandum by G. H. Barlow on Neil Benjamin Edmonstone, formerly Secretary in the Secret, Political and Foreign Department of the Government of India. (53) pp. 1311-7, Political Interference with the Military. (54) pp. 1319-57, Campaign of the Malwa Field Force. (55) pp. 1359-75, Memorandum on the murder of a native. (See Kaye's Lives of Indian Officers, I, 148-9.) (56) Edward Hare (Inspector-General of Hospitals, said to have first established the use of Quinine during fever. The use of Bark, i.e. Quinine, as a Tonic for weakness after the subsidence of temperature is mentioned in the Diary of Lieut. John Pester under date 26th Oct. 1804 (War and Sport in India, 1802-06. An Officer's Diary. Edited by J. A. Devenish.) pp. 1377-95, Medical Memo. of the Siege of Delhi (about 1,000 words, ? Original); pp. 1399-457, Notes on the Mutiny and Siege of Delhi. (Printed in Major E. C. Hare's Memoirs of Edward Hare, p. 101 et seq.) [Hare expresses a very heterodox view of John Lawrence.] (57) pp. 1459-68, Memo. of facts connected with the Rebellion on the Belgaum, North Canara and Goa Frontier in 1858, and the Force known as the Goa Field Force. (58) pp. 1469-91, Remarks by G. B. Seton Karr on the annual report for 1858 by H. B. Lockett, Acting Political Agent, S.M.C., 25th April 1860. (59) pp. 1495-1515, Memorandum of Sir Robert N. C. Hamilton to Lord Palmerston 20th March 1862 on the Prize Money claims of the troops which operated in Central India or South of the Jumna (Printed). (60) pp. 1517-23, Military Statements (Printed). (61) pp. 1525-32, Trial at Delhi in 1862 of Mogul Beg for murder of European gentlemen and ladies on 11th May 1857 (Printed). See Selections from Punjab Records, 1857, N.S. 7. (62) pp. 1533-73, Cuttings from Anglo-Indian Newspapers on subjects connected with the Mutiny, such as Afghanistan, the Tanjore case, Nawab Khan Bahadur Khan of Bareilly and the Indus Flotilla.

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