IOR/L/PS/7/47 ff.971-984

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Scope and content : Despatch from the Government of India, Foreign Department (Secret/Frontier) to the Secretary, Political and Secret Department, India Office, dated Simla 28 July 1886, forwarding for the attention of ther Secretary of State for India, Kandahar Newsletter No. 20, dated 18 June 1886, written by Mirza Muhammad Takki Khan, Newswriter at Kandahar, and Herat Newsletters Nos. 58, 59 and 60, dated respectively 31 May, 4 June and 8 June 1886, written by Mirza Ghulam Ahmed, Native Attache at Herat.The Herat Newsletter Nos. 59-60 contain some references to a map being prepared in relation to possible Russian hostilities against Herat.