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| Title | The Eastern question, by the late visct. Stratford de Redcliffe, a selection from his writings with a preface by A.P. Stanley |
| Author | Stratford Canning (visct. Stratford de Redcliffe.) |
| Editor | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley |
| Published | 1881 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2006 |
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