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Margary affair: Opium: copies of inward Notes 16 of 1879 and 3A of 1880, and of outward...
Catalogue reference: FO 1080/183
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- 1879-1880
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Margary affair: Opium: copies of inward Notes 16 of 1879 and 3A of 1880, and of outward Notes 16 and 26 of 1879 and 5 of 1880
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Former FO 682 ref 1174/1-5
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- Asia
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