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**[http://archive.org/stream/correspondencere00londrich#page/n1/mode/2up ''Correspondence respecting relations with Persia. Presented to both Houses of Parliament 1857''] 1857 Archive.org
**[http://archive.org/stream/furthercorrespon00greauoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''Further correspondence respecting the affairs of Persia. Presented to both Houses of Parliament April 1914''] 1914 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=UlwBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Personal narrative of military travel and adventure in Turkey and Persia''] by Robert Macdonald, ex-Sergeant Rifle Brigade, 1859 Google Books. He was appointed in 1836 to go to Persia, (one of a group of nine) and arrived back in England in February 1839.
*[https://archive.org/details/amemoirmajorgen00rawlgoog ''A Memoir of Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson''] by George Rawlinson 1898 Archive.org. Born 1810, he joined the Bombay Army in 1827. In 1833 he was sent to Persia ([https://archive.org/stream/amemoirmajorgen00rawlgoog#page/n69/mode/2up page 36]), the start of a long association with this country. He was recalled to India in 1839 and in 1840 was appointed Political Agent in Western Afghanistan and was involved in the [[1st Afghan War]] until the end of 1842. In October 1843 he was appointed “British Political Agent in Turkish Arabia” 1844-1849 and 1851-1855. He resumed an interest in Cuneiform Studies. (Also see [[Scholars or antiquarians]])
**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2h9DAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA26 "Notes on a March from Zohab… in the year 1836"] by Major Rawlinson of the Bombay Army serving in Persia. Page 26 ''The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society: Volume 9 1839'' Google Books
