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FRERE (HENRY BARTLE EDWARD) Autograph letter signed ("H.B.E. Frere"), to Christopher Palmer Rigby ("My dear Rigby") explaining that "it occurred to me that a letter to Muscat" would be the best route to communicate with Rigby, asking for his news, and if he should have any shells ("Zanzibar is one of the localities named as likely to afford good ones"), 4 pages, in original envelope addressed to "Capt. Rigby, Zanzibar, via Muscat", signed by Frere ("Commissioner in Sind"), line of text in Arabic, and illegible red ink postal stamp, noted in ink on verso "Rcd 26 Novm./59 from Muscat", Kurachee [Karachi], 20 July 1859--COLQUHOUN (ROBERT GILMOUR, Consul-General in Egypt, 1859-1865) Autograph letter signed ("R.G. Colquhoun"), to Rigby ("My dear Rigby"), sympathising with his posting to "such an out of the way place as Zanzibar", bemoaning the cost of living and poor company ("over run with Nile travellers") in Cairo, confirming that he'd given instructions "to greet Capt. Speke & Grant on reaching the Egyptian frontier" but that John Petherick "had charged to Gondokoro to meet them", gossiping about Petherick's "Bucksome wife!" and in passing mentioning Samuel White Baker's "charming little woman", 8 pages, 8vo, Alexandria, 20 July 1861--"Letter from Zanzibar Envoys inviting me to come to Langham Hotel and Receive £200 - 1868", written in Arabic, one page, in original envelope with Arabic address [with note in English above], Langham Hotel headed paper, [1868]; and 2 others, one a manuscript announcement of Rigby's departure from Zanzibar as published in Hansard (15 July 1861), the other a letter from a Mr. Churchill in Cape Town that he will be delivering to Rigby a Sword of Honour on behalf of the Sultan of Zanzibar, 8 pages, in original envelope, 18 May 1869 (5)