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 Consul at Tehran, Richard W Stevens (22-23 August 1856, Numbers 54-57). The amount of detail for each entry therefore varies. The despatches briefly cover reports of Persian advances into Afghanistan,...
This bundle consists of summaries of official secret letters received from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray residing at Baghdad (9-10, 15, 19-20 and 22 December 1856). This amount of content for each entry therefore varies. The main topics covered are Murray's assessment of articl...
‘Secret Letters received, by way of Marseilles, June 1. 1857.’
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This bundle consists of summaries of official secret letters received, from an unnamed source (undated, and dated 22 April 1857, Number 19), and from Bombay [presumably the Government of Bombay] (30 April 1857, Numbers 88-96; and 1 May 1857, Numbers 97-98). The summaries mostly relate to Afgha...
‘Secret Letters received, by way of Marseilles, June 8: 1857.’
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This bundle consists of summaries of letters, sent by way of Marseilles, from the Governor General of India in Council (2 May 1857, Numbers 20-22), and from Bombay [presumably the Government of Bombay] (11 May, Numbers 99-104). The summaries relate to Candahar [Kandahar or Qandahar], China, Sa...
‘Letters from Mr. Murray received July 10th. 1857.’
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These folios consist of summaries of letters from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray, sent from Baghdad (6 June, Number 46; and 8 June, Numbers 47-48). The summaries concern Herat, including the Persian Government’s reported intention to delay their departure from Herat, the conclu...
‘Secret Letters received July 14. 1857 via Marseilles’
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This bundle consists of summaries of letters from the Governor General of India in Council (3 June, Numbers 26-27; 5 June, Number 28; 6 June, Number 29). The summaries concern the 1857 Indian Mutiny [Rebellion or Uprising], including summaries of reports from the Chief Commissioner of the Punj...
These folios consist of a summary of a letter from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray, sent from his camp near Teheran [Tehran] (5 August 1857, Number 70), regarding correspondence with the Sedr Ajeem as to the fulfilment of the conditions of the Treaty between Persia and Great Brita...
These folios consist of summaries of letters from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray, sent from his camp near Tehran (20 July 1857, Number 58, and 26 July 1857, Number 63), regarding matters including the Sedr Ajeem [or Azeem?] having communicated with Murray as to the desire of the ...
‘Letter from Mr Murray as to Persia received Oct.3.1856’
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This bundle contains a summary of a secret despatch from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray residing at Baghdad (8 August 1856, Number 68). It discusses a letter received from the ruler of Herat, Eesa Khan [Isa Khan Bardorani, Minister-Regent of Herat] offering submission to Britain i...