This bundle contains summaries of two secret dispatches sent by HM Consul at Tehran, Richard W Stevens (31 May 1856, Numbers 30-31). This includes a letter received from the Newswriter at Meshed [Mashhad] reporting that Mahomed Yoosoof [Mohammad Yusuf Khan, Regent of Herat] has been captured b...
This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray, residing at Baghdad (20 and 26 June 1856, Numbers 57 and 59-60). The subject matter consists of the advance of the Persian Army against Herat, the policy o...
This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray, residing at Baghdad (14, 22, and 26 July 1856, Numbers 63 and 65-66). The despatches discuss correspondence that has taken place between the Persian Govern...
This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from both the Governor General of India (30 July 1856, Number 31) and the Government of Bombay (9 August 1856, Numbers 56-59). The amount of detail for each entry therefore varies. The despatch from the Gover...
‘Letter from Persia, received at the India Board from the Foreign Office, 23.August 1856’
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This bundle consists of summaries of two despatches sent by HM Consul at Tehran, Richard W Stevens (10 July 1856, Numbers 42 and 43), addressed to George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The despatches are concerned with news of the pos...
‘Secret Letters received, by way of Marseilles, June 14.1856’
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This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from both the Governor General of India (14 June and 3 May 1856, Numbers 18-19) and the Government of Bombay (10 and 12 May 1856, Numbers 34-38). The amount of detail for each entry therefore varies. The desp...
This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from HM Consul at Tehran, Richard W Stevens (7, 16, 20 and 22 June 1856, Numbers 7, 33 and 36-39). It also contains a summary of a despatch from Stratford Canning, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (15 June ...
‘Secret Letters received, by way of Marseilles July 17.1856
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This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from both the Governor General of India (3 June 1856, Number 1856, Number 23) and the Government of Bombay (10 June 1856, Numbers 41-44). The amount of detail for each entry therefore varies. The despatch fro...
‘Secret Letters received, June 30.1856, as to Herat’
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This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from both the Governor General of India (17 May 1856, Number 22) and the Government of Bombay (27 May 1856, Numbers 39-40). The amount of detail for each entry therefore varies. The despatch from the Governor...
‘Secret Letters received, by way of Marseilles, August 30:1856’
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This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from both the Governor General of India (17 July 1856, Numbers 27-30) and the Government of Bombay (28-29 July 1856, Numbers 53-55). The amount of detail for each entry therefore varies. The despatches from t...