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Mss Eur F126/6, ff 12-17
- Record Id:
- 041-002558362
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002311283
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022507622.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023594369.0x000004
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F126/6, ff 12-17
- Title:
- Letter from John Wortley de la More, Cedar Grove, Richmond, Surrey to Lewis Pelly
- Scope & Content:
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Letter regarding arrangements for an extension of the Electric Telegraph from Baghdad to Bassorah [Basra] and then via the Persian Gulf to Kurrachee [Karachi] and discussing this route as a more commercially and politically viable one than through the Red Sea where the telegraph has ruptured several times since installation.
The letter goes on to discuss a proposal which was put to Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell for a system to protect the telegraph line from Seistan [Sīstān] to Bagdad [Baghdad] which would potentially also have the benefit of producing a body of men, paid for and supported by the English Government in a useful position should any military situations arise.
The letter then goes on to discuss an idea for a tram-road from Tabreez [Tabriz] to Teheran [Tehran] which he has proposed to Mr Edwin Clark, Railway Engineer and his bankers. In depth details are provided on the concessions that were agreed with Turkey for a tram-road between Belgrade and Constantinople and how similar concessions would be required with Persia for such a scheme to be implemented, but that a larger guarantee would be required for somewhere so far away from Britain in order to persuade bankers and the Public to subscribe to it.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002311283
036-002311284
040-002311290
041-002558362 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur F126 : Papers of Sir Lewis Pelly
Mss Eur F126/1-11 : Personal and official correspondence and papers to and from Lewis Pelly
Mss Eur F126/6 : Personal and Private D.O. [Demi-Official] Correspondence
Mss Eur F126/6, ff 12-17 : Letter from John Wortley de la More, Cedar Grove, Richmond, Surrey to Lewis Pelly - Hierarchy:
- 032-002311283[0001]/036-002311284[0006]/040-002311290[0004]/041-002558362
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F126
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 6 folios
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000001524.0x000391
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1860
- End Date:
- 1860
- Date Range:
- 3 May 1860
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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