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'Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.' [53] (86/782)
The record is made up of 1 volume (673 pages). It was created in 1874. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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r j MEMOIR OF COLONEL PATRICK STEWART. 53
also Simla, and neighbouring hill stations; returning to
send in their results in Jan. 1862, The report was of a
comprehensive character, and had in view the means of
improving the sanitary condition of the soldier in India.
Scarcely had this labour been completed when orders
were received to depute Major Stewart to Persia on a
particular mission connected with the construction of a
proposed Telegraph in that country. As a separate
chapter of this volume has been reserved for the history
of the Persian lines, and as the remainder of the short
but brilliant career of the above lamented officer was
mainly devoted to the furtherance of Indo-European
telegraphic communication, to which the said Persian
lines would contribute a respectable quota, and the true
history of which, so far as carried out under Govern
ment orders, is the main intent of this whole work, the
interval between Stewart's final departure from Calcutta
and his fatal illness at Constantinople will be rapidly
sketched, to avoid repetition.
Leaving Calcutta in February, and Ceylon, after some
two or three weeks' detention, in March, he proceeded
via Bombay and Karachi to the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, disem
barking at Bushahr, and journeying to Tehran by land.
Sickness drove him from Tehran on the 18th June, and
he at once went home through Russia. After recruiting
his health in England under the drawback of incessant
official duty, and completing the arrangements for the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
cable with which he was entrusted as the
responsible head, he proceeded to Bombay in November
18G3, laid the cable from Gwadar to Fao, and returned
from the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
to Bombay, thence to establish
temporary head-quarters at Constantinople. He arrived
here in the summer of 1864. Thenceforward, except to
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Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.
Author: Colonel Sir Frederic John Goldsmid, CB, KCSI. Late Chief Commissioner Indo-European Telegraph; British Commissioner for settlement of the Perso-Baluch Frontier (1870-71) and Arbitrator in the Perso-Afghan boundary question (1872-73).
Publication details: London. Macmillan and Co., 1874. R Clay, Sons and Taylor, printers, Bread Streat Hill.
Physical Description: xiv, [2], 673, [3]p., [8] leaves of plates (2 folded): ii, maps, portrait; 23cm (8º).
Ownership: With stamps of the 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. Library and embossed stamp of the "Secretary of State for India Library". Marginal ms. annotations in a contemporary hand in ink on pages 101, 194, 196, 264 and 527.
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- 1 volume (673 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references, along with a list of illustrations giving titles and page references. There is also an index which begins on page 661.
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Dimensions: 232mm x 156mm
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- V 21450
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- 'Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1:14, 14a:14b, 15:18, 1:8, 8a:8b, 9:144, 144a:144b, 145:186, 186a:186b, 187:324, 324a:324b, 325:516, 516a:516b, 517:648, 648a:648b, 649:676, 1:60, iii-r:iii-v, back-i
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- Goldsmid, Sir Frederic John
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