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INDIA-- HARDINGE, Charles, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858-1944). Series of 11 autograph letters signed ("Hardinge of P.") to Vicscount Morley (1838-1923), various places including Hammersfield, Westminster, Calcutta Simla, and Quetta, 19 August 1910 to 27 December 1911; autograph letter signed ("Hardinge of P.") to Richmond Ritchie (1854-1912), Hammersfield, 12 August 1910.
47 pages, 190 x 120mm to 240 x 190mm, all accomplished on official stationery and most black-bordered.
An important correspondence chronicling Hardinge's assumption of the office of Viceroy of India and controversies surrounding the Delhi Durbar of 1911. A wide ranging-and frank group of letters to Viscount Morley, Secretary of State for India and Lord President of the Council, concerning matters of governance as he worked to reform British administration of India. Writing from Calcutta on 5 January 1911, he reported: "I am on the best of terms with all my Council, and take them entirely into my confidence, which is, I believe, a new experience to them - The result is that they are all most anxious to help and support me in every way." Part of his reforms included placing a native Indian on his executive council, to which he commented that, "It amuses me to think of how people in England regarded the presence of an Indian Member on the Viceroy's Executive Council as a most terrible innovation full of danger -" The letters also feature two important letters concerning Hardinge's handling the official visit of George V for the Delhi Dunbar in December 1911 including a cryptic letter concerning the matter of the crowns to be worn at the ten-day ceremony.
[With:] KRISHNARAJA WADIYAR III, Maharajah of Mysore (1794-1868) Letter signed, to Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (Later Edward VII), 475 x 375mm (sight), on elaborate gilt-bordered stock with similarly-adorned gilt border, addressed in manuscript to the Prince of Wales, and bearing the Maharajah's franking signature. [Also With:] Seven photographs including six silver gelatin prints of a reception for Queen Victoria at Balmoral ca 1900, as well as a large mounted albumen print of Victoria c. 1860.
47 pages, 190 x 120mm to 240 x 190mm, all accomplished on official stationery and most black-bordered.
An important correspondence chronicling Hardinge's assumption of the office of Viceroy of India and controversies surrounding the Delhi Durbar of 1911. A wide ranging-and frank group of letters to Viscount Morley, Secretary of State for India and Lord President of the Council, concerning matters of governance as he worked to reform British administration of India. Writing from Calcutta on 5 January 1911, he reported: "I am on the best of terms with all my Council, and take them entirely into my confidence, which is, I believe, a new experience to them - The result is that they are all most anxious to help and support me in every way." Part of his reforms included placing a native Indian on his executive council, to which he commented that, "It amuses me to think of how people in England regarded the presence of an Indian Member on the Viceroy's Executive Council as a most terrible innovation full of danger -" The letters also feature two important letters concerning Hardinge's handling the official visit of George V for the Delhi Dunbar in December 1911 including a cryptic letter concerning the matter of the crowns to be worn at the ten-day ceremony.
[With:] KRISHNARAJA WADIYAR III, Maharajah of Mysore (1794-1868) Letter signed, to Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (Later Edward VII), 475 x 375mm (sight), on elaborate gilt-bordered stock with similarly-adorned gilt border, addressed in manuscript to the Prince of Wales, and bearing the Maharajah's franking signature. [Also With:] Seven photographs including six silver gelatin prints of a reception for Queen Victoria at Balmoral ca 1900, as well as a large mounted albumen print of Victoria c. 1860.