Collection | Asian State Letters |
Reference | GEO/ADD/31/22 |
Former Reference | RCIN 1197006 |
Record Type | Correspondence |
Title | Letter [?from the Emperor of Vietnam] to the King of Ava [Burma]. |
Date | n.d. [? 1824] |
Writer | [?Vietnam, Emperor of] |
Addressee | Ava [Burma], King of |
Description | Accompanied by a handwritten note: 'Letter from the Emperor of China to the King of Ava - taken by Lieut. Col. Miles'.
[This may be Lieutenant Colonel William Miles (1780 - 1860), who commanded the 89th Regiment which took Tavoy (now Dawei) and Mergui in Burma (now Myanmar) in Autumn 1824 during the First Anglo-Burmese War: see RCIN 62189.] |
Language | [?Chinese] |
Extent | 3 documents |
Physical Description | Manuscript paper with paper envelope, with printed stamps |
Related Material | FOR RCIN 62189 see https://www.rct.uk/collection/62189 |
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