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‘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...
‘Letter from Sir J. Outram received June 29. 1857.’
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This folio consists of a summary of a letter from Sir James Outram (in command of the British army in the Anglo-Persian War) to Lord Clarendon (George William Frederick Villiers, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), dated Mohamra [Khorramshahr, Iran] 26 April 1857. The summary states:...
This bundle consists of summaries of official secret letters received from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray, residing at Baghdad (30 April 1857, Number 29; 2 May, Number 33; and 7 May, Numbers 35-36). The letters mainly relate to the treaty between the United Kingdom and Persia, a...
This bundle consists of summaries of official secret letters received from Bombay (presumably the Government of Bombay) (28 February 1857, Number 52; 1 March 1857, Numbers 53-54; 2 March 1857, Numbers 55-56; 3 March 1857, Number 57; and 5 March 1857, Numbers 58-62), and a list of letters receive...
‘Secret Letters received, by way of Marseilles, April 2d. 1857.’
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This bundle consists of summaries of letters from Sir James Outram (in command of the British army in the Anglo-Persian War) to Lord Clarendon (George William Frederick Villiers, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), dated 11, 22 and 23 April 1857. The summary of the letter dated 11...
This bundle consists of summaries of letters from Sir James Outram (in command of the British army in the Anglo-Persian War) to Lord Clarendon (George William Frederick Villiers, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), dated 11, 22 and 23 April 1857. The summary of the letter dated 11...
‘Secret Letters received by way of Marseilles, April 14. 1857.’
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This bundle consists of summaries of official secret letters received from the Governor General of India in Council (7 March 1857, Numbers 12-13; 18 March 1857, Numbers 63-67; and 19 March 1857, Numbers 68-72). The amount of detail for each entry varies. The summaries mostly concern: troops, ar...
‘Letter from Mr. Thornton received April 16. 1857’
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This bundle consists of a summary of a letter from Mr Thornton at Baghdad, dated 28 February 1857 and received 16 April 1857. The letter concerns a firman [edict or order] from the Shah of Persia to the Hereditary Governor of Persian Kurdistan, of 10 January 1857.
‘Secret Letters received, by way of Marseilles, April 28. 1857.’
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This bundle consists of summaries of official secret letters received from the Governor General of India in Council (21 March 1857, Number 14; 24 March 1857, Number 15; 27 March 1857, Number 73; 30 March 1857, Number 74; 31 March 1857, Numbers 74-76; 2 April 1857, Numbers 77-79; and 17 April, un...
‘Letters from Sir James Outram received May 13.1857.’
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This bundle consists of summaries of official secret letters received from Sir James Outram (in command of the British army in the Anglo-Persian War), addressed from Outram to the Government of Bombay, dated 9 March 1857, and to Lord Clarendon (George William Frederick Villiers, British Secretar...