Letters, 1862-1893.

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Letters, 1862-1893.

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Three ALS written to Bowring relating to events in India. Correspondents are Sir Henry Marion, Major-General, condemning the state of Mysore jails, for which he blamed the policy of Sir Mark Cubbon (3 June 1862); Sir F.P. Haines, General, asking for instructions about the firing of guns on the death "of the poor old Rajah" and commenting on military affairs in Mysore (28 March 1868); and Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Indian civil servant & diplomat, concerning his novel Hilda Trevelyan, which he describes as an attempt to show "what Indian life is really like" (27 December 1893).

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Haines, F. P. (Frederick Paul), 1819-1909

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