Letter : to William Govett Romaine, [1839]

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Letter : to William Govett Romaine, [1839]

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Undated letter signed by G. A. Hoskins, the Hon. Secretary of the White River Expedition, to W. G. Romaine, giving extensive instructions regarding his supervision of the individual who is to be sent to explore the sources of the Nile. Together with a passport, partly printed and completed in manuscript, granting W. G. Romaine and his companion Mahomet leave to travel through France to Marseilles, signed by the British Ambassador to the Court of France, the first Earl Granville, and countersigned by Romaine, with the vignette of the order of the garter at the top. The passport is dated 4 May 1839 and endorsed on the verso by various authorities. These were both contained in a folder from the Royal Geographical Society.

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Romaine, William Govett, 1815-1893

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Epithet: Second Secretary to the Admiralty British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001391.0x0001b5 Deputy judge advocate of the British Army in eastern India, 1854; second secretary to the Admiralty, 1857; and judge advocate general in India, 1869-1873. From the description of Papers, 1857-1877. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20121952 ...

Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)

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Muḥammad ʻAlī Bāshā, Governor of Egypt, 1769-1849

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Hoskins, George Alexander, -1864

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Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) White River Expedition

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Granville, Granville Leveson Gower, Earl, 1773-1846

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