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Personal and Literary Letters of Robert First Earl of Lytton

1906

As Noah's Ark was supposed by the Rabbis to be a type of the whole world the Serapis may really be regarded just now as a sort of picturesque epitome of your Majesty's Indian Empire ; for uniting the marvels of the East with the luxuries of the West in her decorations and furniture she also contains just now splendid specimens of what India can produce in the way of tigers leopards and elep [...] With the exception of one young tigress whose mother was shot by His Royal Highness and whom he is bringing home to England as an interesting orphan the Prince really seems to have won the hearts not only of the Rajahs and Maharajahs but also of the wild beasts of India for the representatives of these latter walk about the deck of the Serapis with the most amiable expressions wagging their [...]. The point which Lord Lytton had succeeded iu carrying was the agreement of his Council to the despatch of a letter from the Commissioner of Peshawur by the hand of a native messenger to the Amir announcing the accession of the new Viceroy and the adoption by our Queen of the title of Empress of India and informing the Amir of the Viceroy's intention to send a British Envoy to confer with [...] iv.) that Lord Lytton went out to India iletermittecl to pick it quarrel with the A mir and that throughout their negotiations the Viceroy played the part of the wolf and the Antir that of the lamb it may be of interest to quote verbatim the terms a the memorandum which Lord Lytton gave to the British Native Agent at Simla to carry 'rack to the Amir I authorise the Agent to tell the Amir that i [...] 44-45 FIRST EARL OF LYTTON 17 Lord Lytton found India full of anticipations hopes and conjectures " about the proclamation of the Queen's new title and the idea originated with the Viceroy to combine the public announcement of what might have been but an empty ceremony with measures pregnant with important consequences and so to fulfil widespread expectation and cause the day of the proclamat
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Pages
458
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.141698
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi Balfour Lady Betty view
Chapter XIV India 1876 Aet.44-45
1-39 unknown view
Chapter XV India 1877 Aet.45-46
40-95 unknown view
Chapter XVI India 1878 Aet.46-47
96-136 unknown view
Chapter XVII India 1879 Aet.47-48
137-189 unknown view
Chapter XVIII India 1880 Aet.48-49
190-219 unknown view
Chapter XIX England 1880-1883 Aet.49-52
220-ii unknown view
Chapter XX Back to Litreatuhe 1883-1885 Aet.52-54
255-289 unknown view
Chapter XXI Knebworth 1885-1886 Aet.54-55
290-317 unknown view
Chapter XXII Knebworth 1887 Aet.55-56
318-332 unknown view
Chapter XXIII Paris 1888 Aet.56-57
333-377 unknown view
Chapter XXIV Paris 1889-1891 Aet.57-59
378-i unknown view
Chapter XXV Last Days 1891 Aet.59-60
421-440 unknown view
Index
441-448 unknown view

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