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Letter from John Wortley de la More, Cedar Grove, Richmond, Surrey to Lewis Pelly [14r] (5/12)
The record is made up of 6 folios. It was created in 3 May 1860. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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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 The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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.
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- Mss Eur F126/6, ff 12-17
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- Letter from John Wortley de la More, Cedar Grove, Richmond, Surrey to Lewis Pelly
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- 12r:17v
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- de la More, John Wortley
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