‘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...
‘Letters from Sir J. Outram received July 7. 1857.’
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This bundle consists of letters from Sir James Outram received 7 July 1857, consisting of summaries of letters sent from Mohamra [Mohammerah, now Khorramshahr] and Baghdad to Lord Clarendon (George William Frederick Villiers, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) (17 May, 23 May, and 4...
‘Secret Letters received, by way of Marseilles, May 18.1855’
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This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from both the Governor General of India (31 March 1855, Number 1), the President in Council (7 April 1855, Numbers 22-24), and the Government of Bombay (16 April 1855, Number 16 Military and Numbers 29-30 Secr...
‘Secret Letters received, by way of Marseilles, August 15: 1856’
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This bundle consists of a summary of a dispatch received from the Governor General of India (3 July 1856, Number 26). It is concerned with an intercepted letter suggesting that the Burmese King may attempt to claim the allegiance of the Karen people along the frontier of British India.