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1-3 Bangkok
4-6 Wat Arun
7-12 Wat Pho
13 Wat Chet Yot
14 temple wall, Chiang Mai
15-16 Singora
17 rest house, Hat Yai
18-23 working elephants
24 waterfall
25 Bras Manao Island

29-30 Ceylon
31 Canadian Pacific Railway train

A small number of unidentified photographs from the entire Le Fleming collection are filed at the end of the box.

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Kradat phlao, 398 x 258 mm.

A polite letter of compliments from the Siamese Deputy Governor of the province of Thalang, on the island of Phuket (Junk Ceylon).

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Kradat phlao, 400 x 703 mm.

Letter from the Governor of the Siamese province of Thalang replying to an enquiry from the province of Marit (Mergui) about a ship lost along the west coast.

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Kradat phlao, 351 x ca 3600 mm.

A significant letter from the Thai ministry to Burney regarding his treaty proposals. It largely concerns the Malay states of Perak, Selangor, Kedah, Trengganu, and Kelantan.

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Kradat phlao, 340 x ca 3600 mm.

Additional objections from the Thai ministry to Burney's treaty proposals, largely focusing on the Malay states.

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Kradat phlao, 346 x 875 mm.

This letter deals with the movement of persons and commerce across the Thai/British Burma border.

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Kradat phlao, 339 x 777 mm.

Phraya Phiphatkosa was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and younger brother of the Minister. On behalf of the six ministers of the Thai Government, he refuses Burney's request for military or logistical support in the First Anglo-Burmese War.

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Kradat phlao, 404 x 693 mm.

Like RCMS 65/5/2, this letter rejects Burney’s request for military or logistical support in the First Anglo-Burmese War.

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Kradat phlao, 332 x ca 175 mm.

This letter relates to Burney’s request for aid during the First Anglo-Burmese War.

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Kradat phlao, 351 x 705 mm.

Communicates the King's final refusal to Burney's repeated requests for military aid during the First Anglo-Burmese War.

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Kradat phlao, 355 x 121 mm.

A response from the Thai government to Burney's treaty proposals, largely dealing with the question of commerce.

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Kradat phlao, 366 x 357 mm.

Letter congratulating Burney on his appointment as Assistant Commissioner of the province of Tavoy in the Tenasserim Division of British Burma (22 Apr 1828). Phraya Phiphat thanks Burney for a gift of perfume and assents to proposals for the promotion of trade with Siam.

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Kradat phlao, 348 x ca 860 mm.

Letter relating to overland trade between Siam and Tavoy.

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2 pages.

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A sheet of 17 questions on the Siamese language written by Burney, accompanied by two copies of the answers, possibly by James Low, a Thai expert at Penang. This material probably dates from the period immediately before Burney's first missions to Siam in 1825.

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Translation. 4 pages.

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1 Translation of a letter from the son of the Rajah of Quedah to the Hon. Robert Fullerton, Governor of Prince of Wales Island
2 Map of the Siamese States between Bankok and Quedah
3 Remarks on Siam, etc.

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24 pages

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Photographs of trees, most are of Terengganu, some of Kelantan. The photographs are in good condition and measure approximately 65 x 65 mm.

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176 x 110 mm. View looking across a canal or river, presumably in or near Bangkok, with waterfront houses on the further bank.

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Original glass negatives measuring 164 x 122 mm by Sir Henry Norman. Some of the negatives are accompanied by handwritten captions. Views shown are of French Indo-China [Vietnam], China, Malaya [Malaysia], Siam [Thailand], Korea and Japan.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Archives created by the British soldier and diplomat Henry Burney relating to his service in Burma [Myanmar] and Siam [Thailand]. The cataloguing of the collection has occurred in several stages. In 1921, the RCI Librarian Evans Lewin listed the main English language material in four series, assigning each a letter, A to D. In 1958, Dr D.K. Wyatt examined the Siamese material, including some as yet uncatalogued European material. He listed it in three sections, with the letters E, F, and...

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Ink and colour, 410 x 330 mm. With note: 'This sketch is taken from several sketches & descriptions furnished by native Christian Burmese & Siamese travellers.' Place names are entered in both Thai and Burmese forms. There are also notes concerning Lieutenant Shortland's journey in 1827 from Martaban to Three Pagodas.

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Ink and colour, 410 x 330 mm. A neater but identical copy of RCMS 65/9/9/1.

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2 pages.