Eila Campbell's papers about the International Conferences on the History of Cartography organised under the auspices of Imago Mundi. Introductory note
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In 1964, at the 20th International Geographical Congress held in London, RA Skelton, Helen Wallis and GR Crone (who was Librarian and Keeper of Maps at the Royal Geographical Society) organised a symposium on the History of Cartography. The success of this symposium led them, with Eila Campbell,...
Papers concerning the responsibility for arranging future conferences.
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A crisis arose in 1985 when Genoa in Italy offered to host the 1991 conference. To Eila Campbell's horror, the organisers of the 1985 Ottawa conference allowed a public discussion about whether to accept. Includes invitation from Genoa, 1985 (and polite refusal by Eila Campbell); reports 1986-7...
Letters 53-56 Letters from Consul John Fuller at Leghorn [Livorno] to the Court concerning a riot instigated at Calcutta following the murder of an Indian gentleman by some English men. Related papers in Italian attached.
Letters 20-22 Sir Thomas Robinson at Whitehall to the Court forwarding an account from the Consul at Venice relating to a packet which was opened at Bassora some time previously. Related papers attached.
Letters 292-293 Abstract of a letter from the Ottoman Governor of Mecca transmitted to the Sublime Porte regarding English ships preventing Turkish trade between Surat and Geddi
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Letter 292 in Italian, letter 293 translation in English.
Letters 13-16 Robert Wood at Whitehall to Robert James enclosing correspondence relating to the detriment occasioned to the Turkish trade (by the English) from Surat to Juddah [Jeddah] (also given as Gedde and Ghiodda)
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Committee of Correspondence to examine and report. Enclosures: Letter 14, extract of a letter from Mr Grenville to the Earl of Egremont, Constantinople 2 November 1762; Letter 15 Contenuto d'un articolo della lettere dell' Eccellentifsirno Governatore della Mecca, che pervenniero per mano d'un ...
Letters 83-87 Papers relating to affairs concerning Mr Shaw and Mr Price in Bussorah [Basra]
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ff 157-161, Letter 83 William Shaw in Aleppo, 28 February 1764 outlining in detail is version of events in Bussorah [Basra] relating to debts owed on the account of Hodjee Euseph (deceased); ff 162-165, Letters 84-85 Ali Basha, Governor of Bagdad and Bassorah [Basra] 15 March 1764 to William Kinl...