Foreign Office

17 June 1860

Dear Sir

Thanks for the information about Calah. ^<1> I am so much occupied with the form of these things, that I have scant leisure to look after the matter

I have enquired at the Passport office, and they tell me I must get the full name of your Courier, if he is an Englishman (or naturalized, in which case he must produce his certificate). If he is a foreigner he must have his own separate passport, from his own ambassador or consul. I can get you a passport at a minute’s notice, within official hours. You must get the visé personally, of the French & Spanish consuls.

I should think there can be no objection to writing any thing about the <Naleshi?> Burton ^<2> Inscription – but I am not authorised to say so.

I am yours ever truly

Edwin Norris

P. S. If you do not come to town, you can get the visé of the Consuls or Vice consuls at the port where you embark. I will enclose the passport to you, when you send me the necessary particulars. EN. H Fox Talbot Esq

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Notes:

1. See Doc. No: 01220.

2. James Burton, Jr (1788–1862), traveller and adventurer in Egypt and elsewhere, who was forced to sell his collection at Sothebys on 28 July 1836 to satisfy his debts, including his purchase of a Greek slave girl for a wife.