‘Secret Letters received Nov 14 1855 by way of Marseilles’
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This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from both the President in Council (8 October 1855, Number 55) and the Government of Bombay (13 and 17 October 1855, Numbers 62-65). The amount of detail for each entry therefore varies. The dispatch from the...
‘Secret Letters received, by way of Marseilles, Dec 14 1855’
Scope & Content:
This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from both the President in Council (8 November 1855, Numbers 59-60) and the Government of Bombay (16 November 1855, Number 70). The amount of detail for each entry therefore varies. The despatches from the Pr...
This bundle consists of summaries of official secret letters received, mainly from the Governor General of India in Council (17 June 1857, Number 30; 19 June 1857, Number 31; 19 June 1857, Numbers 32-35), and from Bombay [presumably the Government of Bombay] (24 June 1857, Numbers 128-132; 25 Jun...
‘Secret Letters received, by way of Marseilles, Feb:13.1856’
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This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from the Government of Bombay (15-16 January 1856, Numbers 5-8 and 19). The amount of detail for each entry therefore varies. The dispatches cover the following topics: the question as to whether Sirdars from...
This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray (15 and 22 December 1855, Numbers 106-107). It also includes letters sent to Murray by Richard W Stevens, HM Consul at Tehran. The subject matter of the dis...
This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray. The amount of detail for each entry therefore varies. The subject matter includes measures taken by the Persian Government to defend its southern provinces...
This bundle contains summaries of two secret dispatches from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray, residing at Baghdad (18 and 25 August 1856, Numbers 73 and 76). They outline matters which – in the view of Murray – should be settled before diplomatic relations are resumed with the Pers...
This bundle consists of two secret despatches from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray residing at Baghdad (1 September 1856, Numbers 77 and 78). The subject matter is Murray's conviction that the Persian Government is set on evading the British Foreign Secretary's demand for the withd...
‘Secret Letters received, by way of Marseilles January 16.1857’
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This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from both the Governor General of India (8 December 1856, Number 61) and the Government of Bombay (16-17 December 1856, Numbers 99-100, 103, 105-107). The amount of detail for each entry therefore varies. The...
‘Letters from Sir J. Outram to the Secret Committee’
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This bundle consists of letters from Sir James Outram to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, received 2 July 1857. The letters consist of: a copy of a letter from Outram to the Governor General of India, of 29 May 1857, regarding recommendations for military awards; a summary of a let...