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Macaulay, Colman Patrick Louis, 1848 - 1890 (secretary to the government of Bengal)

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Report on a Mission to Sikkim and the Tibetan Frontier, with a Memorandum on our relations with Tibet

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302592A
Scope and Contents Printed volume, with original photographs inserted, written by Colman Macaulay. Macaulay undertook his mission in October-November 1885, and reported enthusiastically on the value of extending British relations with Tibet, but though he was chosen to lead a subsequent mission to promote this, an Anglo-Chinese treaty led to its abandonment. In his introduction to the present volume, he notes that 'photographs were taken on the journey' (though without indicating the photographer), and the...
Dates: 1885-10 - 1885-11
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