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[Letter to His Royal Highness, King George III of England.] The Palace of St Antonio, Island of Malta. 29th July.

Stanhope, Hester, Lady

...A letter documenting the initial stages of Lady Hester Stanhope's well-chronicled sojourn east, while her plans were yet in their infancy, it relates her motives for departure, offering a programmatic rationale for her eventual residence...

Lettera di ragguaglio di quello che è successo tra le due Armate in Mare, da li 19 fino li 22 Novembre 1617.

[Unknown]

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Capitano Alfonso

...A copy of a letter written by Captain Alfonso to the Venetian Fleet deployed in the Canale di Curzola (Korčulanski kanal in Croatian) on the Dalmatian coast, dated November 27, 1617...

[Letter to Sir Joseph Banks,] Latikia, 7th July, 1803, [i.e. 1813].

Stanhope, Hester, Lady

...A long, informative letter to Sir Joseph Banks offering her expertise on Bedouin lifestyle gained from her notorious expedition into the desert with a tribe of Bedouin Arabs in January 1813, and detailing her experiences on this trip...

Lettre de Pierre Bon, Gouverneur de Marseille.

Bon, Pierre, Governor of Marseille

...Pierre Bon was Governor of Marseille and, in this letter to Monsieur de Foucquevaulx, Governor of Narbonne, he discusses the problem of the Turkish corsairs plying off the French coast. Like Marseille, Narbonne was another Mediterranean...

[Ottoman document, a letter from Khalil, Governor of Tripoli, to Murad IV, Sultan of the Turks (?)].

Khalil, Governor of Tripoli

...Addressed by Khalil, the Governor of Tripoli (Lebanon), to ‘my brother’ and using a salutation usually reserved for the Sultan (presumably Murad IV), this letter concerns the English consul in Tripoli, seeking the sultan’s permission...

[The Stopford papers: 1835].

Robert Stopford

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Slade, Adolphus, Sir

...Contains only two documents: a list of details of the Ottoman Navy, by Sir Adolphous Slade, dated 15 August 1835 and a list of the Austrian Naval Force in the Mediterranean, 1835-36...

[3 autograph letters to Admiral Lord Keith, Alexandria, 13th & 23rd July and 10th December, 1802]

Pasha, Küçük Hüseyin, Captain

...A series of three letters by Capitan Pasha Hüseyin, High Admiral of the Turkish fleet, probably written by a secretary, but stamped with his own seal, addressing thanks to Admiral Lord Keith, currently commanding the British fleet...

[Illuminated letter signed addressed to] Sultan Osman [i.e. Osman II, Sultan of the Turks, 1603-1622] Han Cheife Lord and Commander of the Ottoman Kingdome, and sole and supreme Monarch of ye Easterne Empire, [Westminster 9th July 1621].

James I, King of England

...This letter announces the appointment of Sir Thomas Roe as ambassador and the recall of Sir John Eyre naming the bearer of the letter, John Chapman, as the 'Caya' (representative) of James I, King of England, until Roe's arrival, also...

[Autograph letter in Hungarian, documents IV box].

Ali Pasha, of Buda

...A letter written in a cursive hand, addressed to captains and high-ranking officers in and around Szoboszlo and Nanas, in which Ali Pasha lets them know that he has been informed about their attempt to occupy two frontier cities. He warns...

[Letter to Monsieur le Doux, Consul at Rhodes], Mount Lebanon, 2 October 1820.

Stanhope, Hester, Lady

...Lady Hester informs the Consul at Rhodes of the death of Captain Loustenau, the last love of her life, who had spoken highly of the Consul and had intended to visit him to discuss some very interesting confidential matters. In 1820...