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HARDINGE
(Charles, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, 1858-1944, Diplomat and Statesman, Viceroy of India)
Long Typed Letter Signed to My dear Professor
commiserating with him on his sad loss... I shall of course be only too pleased to help you to get your letter to Moscow. I am afraid however that our recent Messengers have not been able to proceed beyond Stockholm owing to the disturbances in Finland. We have a large accumulation of bags waiting there and shall not send any more until we know that the Messengers can once more get through. I fear therefore that it may be a considerable time before your letter reaches Petrograd, and there is no certainty that it would get through safely from Petrograd to Moscow. Our Messengers do not go beyond Petrograd. Would you like me to keep the letter and send it by the first opportunity... If so, I must ask you whether you would have any objection to our sending it to be censored first as we are not at liberty to include in our diplomatic bags any unofficial letters that have not be been submitted to censorship..., 2 sides 4to., Foreign Office, 21st February
Item Date: 1918
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Background
In 1910, Hardinge was raised to the peerage as Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, in the County of Kent, and appointed by the Asquith government as Viceroy of India. His tenure was a memorable one and included the visit of King George V and the Delhi Durbar of 1911, as well as the move of the capital from Calcutta to New Delhi in 1911. Although Hardinge was the target of assassination attempts with bomb attack by the Indian nationalists Rash Behari Bose and Sachin Sanyal, his tenure included an improvement of relations between the British administration and the nationalists, as a consequence of the implementation of the Morley-Minto reforms of 1909, and of Hardinge's own admiration for Mohandas Gandhi and criticism of the South African government's anti-Indian immigration policies. Hardinge founded the Dhamrai Hardinge High School and College in 1914. The Hardinge Railway Bridge, now in Bangladesh, was constructed and inaugurated (1915) in his tenure. It has continued to serve a crucial a role in the country's railway network.
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