Five letters from the Tripoli archives

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Title:	Five letters from the Tripoli archives
Author:	Martin, B.G.
Year:	1962
Periodical:	Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria
Volume:	2
Issue:	3
Pages:	350-372
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Northern Nigeria Libya
Subjects:	foreign policy 1800-1899
Abstract:	The Libyan Government Archives at the Castle of Tripoli contain considerable historical material in Arabic, Turkish and Italian. Basis of this article are five Arabic letters which date from 1846 to 1870. They throw some light, but only on details, of the relations of Bornu with Tripoli during the second Ottoman period (1835-1911), under the reigns of Shaykh 'Umar bin Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanimi and Shaykh 'Abd al-Rahman. Three of these letters are internal Tripolitanian Government correspondence about Bornu affairs; the fourth letter is a copy of a diplomatic communication addressed by Mustafa Nuri Pasha of Tripoli to Shehu (Shaykh) 'Abd al-Rahman of Bornu. The fifth letter is an example of the Bornu diplomatic correspondence preserved at the Tripoli Archives, and was addressed by Shaykh 'Umar to the Mushir 'All Rida Pasha of Tripoli. These letters are presented here in translation. Notes, photographic reproductions of the letters.