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6 items (enclosures in letter addressed to Viscount Palmerston by Rowland Macdonald...
Catalogue reference: MPK 1/336
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This record is about the 6 items (enclosures in letter addressed to Viscount Palmerston by Rowland Macdonald... dating from [1850] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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6 items (enclosures in letter addressed to Viscount Palmerston by Rowland Macdonald Stephenson, 1 January 1850) extracted from FO 195/339. (1), (3), (5) 'National Highway - Table of Distances and Cost': 3 printed copies of MS; the information relates to items 2, 4 and 6. (2), (4), (6) 'National Highway. Sketch Map of the Communication between England and the British Possesssions in India ...': 3 copies, showing land and sea routes. 4 insets: schematic plans showing the lines of communication across Europe, already open, planned and required: 'France', 'Belgium', 'Germany including Bavaria', 'Austria'.
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