Letter from H. Addington to Thomas Fiott Hughes announcing his appointment as an attaché to the British embassy in Constantinople, dated 9 April 1845; the letter details the duties of an attaché and provides information on his salary and maintenance.

Queen Victoria's official Commission of Hughes as Consul for the Pashadoms of Erzurum and Sivas, dated 29 May 1856.

Letter from Stratford Canning, the Ambassador at Constantinople, in a secretary's hand, signed by Canning, dated 2 March 1856; this letter concerns an attack on Captain Money of the Irregular Osmanlee Cavalry.

Letter from Stratford Canning, in a secretary's hand, signed by Canning, dated 2 July 1857; the letter concerns the conduct of Vedgihi Pasha and replies to Hughes's letter of 22 March.

Copy of a letter in Hughes's hand (?) from Erzurum, dated 6 March 1858, to Mr Wilson at Constantinople; there is only a section of the letter, which addresses the parlous state of the road between Erzurum and Trebizond.

Copy of a letter in Hughes's hand from Erzurum, dated 21 May 1858, to Mr Wilson at Constantinople; this letter tells of two Russian women who had escaped from the Harem of Arif Pasha; they had taken refuge at the Russian consulate and were redeemed after Arif Pasha had paid ransoms.

Copy of Hussein Pasha's letter to the Grand Vizier Mehmed Emin Ali Pasha respecting Mr Giorgos Calokerinos's bankruptcy, dated 21 November 1868, in Ottoman Turkish.

Translation of a telegram from the Governor of Syria at Damascus to Grand Vizier Mahmud Nedim Pasha, dated August 1872; the translation is by Hughes; the letter concerns an Afghan sheik, Moussa Efendi.

Part of a letter of 1871 by Vice-Consul Blunt at Constantinople regarding the misdeeds of the Cadi of Bourgas; with annotations in the hand of Benjamin Disraeli.

Letter from Hagop Matteossian, Vekil for the Protestant community at Constantinople, dated 25 August 1871, to Hughes.

Typed letter in French from D. Nikolaides, editor of the Journal Thraky in Constantinople, to Hughes, dated 13 July 1874; the letter concerns the publication of the first two volumes of ‘Recueil des lois Ottomanes’.

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