This bundle consists of summaries of letters received from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray (12 August 1857, Number 73; 15 August 1857, Number 75; 17 August, Numbers 77-78; 19 August, Number 79; 20 August 1857, Number 82). The summaries mostly relate to Herat. One of the summarie...
This bundle consists of summaries of letters received from HM Minister to Persia [Iran], Charles Augustus Murray (17 September 1857, Number 96; 20 September 1857, Number 97; 25 September 1857, Number 98; 2 October 1857, Numbers 101-102; 3 October 1857, Number 104; 5 October 1857, Numbers 109 and...
This bundle consists of a summary of a letter received from HM Minister to Persia [Iran], Charles Augustus Murray (15 December 1857, Number 140), summarising letters from Lieutenant Colonel Taylor at Herat (22, 23, 26 October, and 2, 3, 4, 5 November 1857). The summaries mostly relate to Herat...
This volume is Volume I (of two) of the manuscript travel journals of John Bax. The volume describes Bax's voyage from England to Bombay in 1812; travels in India in 1815-17; voyage and journey to Rusool Khyma [Ra's al-Khaymah] in Arabia, to Bushire in Persia, and through Shiraz, Isfahan, Kerman...
This volume is Volume II (of two) of the manuscript travel journals of John Bax. The volume describes journeys in various parts of India, 1826-40; voyage and journey from India to England in 1840; and journeys and tours in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and continental Europe, in 1841-59.
‘My Scrap Book volume III’ Artist: Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis (1822–1872)
Scope & Content:
Genre & Subject Matter As well as photographs, a map, an engraving, lithographs, etchings, printed matter and handwritten documents, this album contains sixty-eight pencil, watercolour or pen-and-ink drawings. Twenty-eight drawings (including those from folios 23–73) were made while on leav...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1850-1853
Extent:
139 folios, including 105 items (68 drawings; 1 hand-drawn map; 1 engraving; 2 lithogaphs; 7 etchings; 11 handwritten documents; 12 printed matter; 3 photographs) inserted or pasted into a half bound leather and marbled paper volume
Genre/Subject Matter Pencil sketch on paper. The sketch shows three, presumably sequential, topographical views of the coastal region at the Bab el-Mandeb strait (12° 34' 34” North, 43° 21' 11” East) between Arabia (Yemen) and Africa (Djibouti and Eritrea). This strait, consisting of a two-mil...
Genre/Subject Matter Pencil sketch on paper. The sketch shows a maritime / topographical view of a coastal region, presumably along the Red Sea or Arabian coastline. The view was sketched from on board ship and shows two dhows and one smaller craft sailing from right to left across the scene...
Genre/Subject Matter Pencil sketch on paper. The sketch shows a maritime/topographical view of a coastal region near or at the British Settlement at Aden in present-day Yemen. The view was sketched from on board ship and shows one dhow and seven other craft; one of the vessels in the foregro...
