Victoria & Abdul (45 page)

 
17
 
Reid Archives, Diary, 4 April 1897

 
18
 
Reid Archives, Scrap Book, Queen’s memo, 23 April 1897

 
19
 
IOR MSS/Eur/F84/126/f22, Fritz Ponsonby to Babington Smith, 27 April 1897, Hotel Regina, Cimiez

 
20
 
Ibid., Hamilton to Elgin, 30 April 1897, Whitehall

 
21
 
Reid Archives, Scrap Book, May 1897

 
22
 
IOR MSS/Eur/D509/4, Elgin to Hamilton, 21 April 1897, Simla

 
23
 
IOR MSS/Eur/D509/5, Elgin to Hamilton, 18 May 1897, Simla

11. ‘Munshimania’

 
1
 
 
Reid Archives, Scrap Book, Queen to Reid, 6 June 1897, Balmoral

 
2
 
 
Ibid., Queen to Reid, 28 June 1897, Balmoral

 
3
 
 
RA VIC/MAIN/QVJ/HIND/5: 20 June 1897

 
4
 
 
Reid Archives, Diary, 28 June 1897

 
5
 
 
Reid Archives, Scrap Book, Queen to Reid, 5 July 1897

 
6
 
 
Reid Archives, Diary, 21 July 1897, Osborne

 
7
 
 
Reid Archives, Diary, Queen to Reid, 28 July 1897, Osborne

 
8
 
 
Reid Archives, Scrap Book, Ahmed Husain to Reid, 4 August 1897

 
9
 
 
Reid Archives, Scrap Book, Fritz Ponsonby to Reid, 2 September 1897

 
10
 
Reid Archives, Scrap Book, cutting from
The World
, 15 September 1897

 
11
 
Michaela Reid,
Ask Sir James
, letter from Queen to Reid, quoted

 
12
 
Reid Archives, Scrap Book, Queen to Reid, 22 September 1897

 
13
 
Ibid., Reid to Queen, 23 September 1897

 
14
 
Reid Archives, Diary, 16 October 1897

 
15
 
Reid Archives, Diary, 21 October 1897

 
16
 
Reid Archives, Scrap Book, Queen to Reid, 21 October 1897

 
17
 
Reid Archives, Scrap Book, Queen to Reid, 22 October 1897

 
18
 
Reid Archives, Scrap Book, Reid to Queen, 26 October 1897

 
19
 
RA VIC/MAIN/QVJ/HIND/5: 26 October 1897, Balmoral

 
20
 
Reid Archives, Scrap book, 1897–98. Newspaper report on the Queen’s departure, 12 November 1897

12. Redemption

 
1
 
 
RA VIC/ADDU/104/20, Queen to Karim, 12 February 1898, Osborne

 
2
 
 
Reid Archives, Diary, Reid to Salisbury, 29 January 1898, Osborne

 
3
 
 
Reid Archives, Diary, 18 February 1898

 
4
 
 
Ibid.

 
5
 
 
Reid Archives, Scrap Book, Queen to Reid, April 1898, Cimiez

 
6
 
 
Reid Archives, Scrap Book, Davidson to Reid, May 1898

 
7
 
 
RA VIC/MAIN/C/20/20, Queen to Rowton, 27 June 1899

 
8
 
 
RA VIC/MAIN/QVJ/HIND/6: 13 August 1898

 
9
 
 
Agra Archives, Serial No. 3/File No. 14/Box 50

 
10
 
Ibid.

 
11
 
Ibid.

 
12
 
RA VIC/MAIN/QVJ/HIND/7: 24 May 1899

 
13
 
RA VIC/MAIN/QVJ/HIND/8: 31 October 1899

 
14
 
RA VIC/MAIN/O/7/22

13. Death of a Queen

 
1
 
 
Victor Mallet (ed.),
Life with Queen Victoria: Marie Mallet’s Letters From Court, 1887–1901
(London: John Murray), p. 216

 
2
 
 
RA VIC/MAIN/QVJ/HIND/13: 7 November 1900

 
3
 
 
Reid Archives, ‘Report on Queen’s health/death’ by James Reid, 23 January 1901

 
4
 
 
Reid Archives, Diary, 25 January 1901

 
5
 
 
IOR MSS/Eur/D510/7, Curzon to Hamilton, 24 January 1901, Calcutta

14. Last Days in Agra

 
1
 
 
Reid Archives, Diary, 22 February 1901

 
2
 
 
Victor Mallet (ed.),
Life with Queen Victoria: Marie Mallet’s Letters from Court, 1887–1901
(London: John Murray), p. 172

 
3
 
 
Letter from Lady Curzon quoted in Sushila Anand,
Indian Sahib
, p. 102

 
4
 
 
Mary Lutyens (ed.),
Lady Lytton’s Court Diary 1895–1899
(London: Rupert Hart Davis, 1961), p. 42

 
5
 
 
IOR MSS/Eur/D510/7, Curzon to Hamilton, 31 January 1901

 
6
 
 
Ibid., Curzon to Hamilton, 28 November 1900

 
7
 
 
Ibid., 27 August 1902

 
8
 
 
Ibid., 14 March 1901

 
9
 
 
IOR MSS/Eur/D510/11, Curzon to Hamilton, 30 July 1902

 
10
 
IOR MSS/Eur/D510/12, Curzon to Hamilton, 5 November 1902

 
11
 
RA GV/PRIV/AA27/12, George to King Edward VII, 8 January 1906, Agra

 
12
 
RA GV/PRIV/AA27/51, George to King Edward VII, 20 March 1909, Marlborough House, London

15. Endgame

 
1
 
 
The Times
, 24 April 1909

 
2
 
 
Giles St Aubyn,
Edward VII: Prince and King
(London: William Collins, 1979), p. 144

 
3
 
 
RA VIC/MAIN/X/14/20, Edward VII to Viceroy, 20 April 1909

 
4
 
 
RA VIC/MAIN/W/5/74, John Hewitt to Lord Minto, 27 April 1909, Nainital

 
5
 
 
Ibid.

 
6
 
 
Ibid.

 
7
 
 
RA VIC/MAIN/W/5/75, Edward VII to Minto, 21 May 1909, Buckingham Palace

 
8
 
 
St Aubyn,
Edward VII
, p. 145

 
9
 
 
RA VIC/MAIN/X/14/29, Minto to Knollys, 27 September 1909, Viceregal Lodge, Simla

 
10
 
St Aubyn,
Edward VII
, p. 145

 
11
 
RA VIC/MAIN/X/14/29, Minto to Knollys, 27 September 1909

 
12
 
RA VIC/MAIN/X/14/30, Minto to Edward VII, 28 September 1909, Simla

 
13
 
Ibid., Edward VII note to Minto, 20 October 1909

 
14
 
RA VIC/MAIN/W/5/100, Minto to Hewitt, 7 December 1909, Viceroy’s Camp, Bangalore

Primary Sources

Royal Archives, Windsor
(RA)

Queen Victoria’s Journals (QVJ)

Queen Victoria’s Hindustani Journals (QVJ/HIND)

Additional Manuscripts (ADDL/MSS)

Reid Archives, Jedburgh

Abdul Karim’s Journals
(1887–97). Unpublished, Karachi

India Office Records, British Library, London
(IOR)

Dufferin Papers

Lansdowne Papers

Elgin Papers

Curzon Papers

Minto Papers

Regional Archives, Agra

Abdul Karim files

Newspapers and Magazines

The Times

The Telegraph

Illustrated London News

The Daily Graphic Black

The World

The Standard

Lloyds Weekly

Aberdeen Weekly

Birmingham Daily Post

Pall Mall Gazette

The Era

Glasgow Herald

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