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Charles Thomas Marvin (1854–1890), was a British author and Foreign Office employee, whose public disclosure of government secrets prompted the creation of the Official Secrets Act.

Works
Our Public Offices, Embodying an Account of the Disclosure of the Anglo-Russian Agreement, and the Unrevealed Secret Treaty of 31 May 1878, 1878. • ''The Eye-witnesses' Account of the Disastrous Campaign against the Akhal Tekke Turcomans,'' 1880. Adopted by the Russian government for military libraries and commended by General Mikhail Skobelev. • Merv the Queen of the World and the Scourge of the Man-stealing Turcomans. With an Exposition on the Khorassan Question, 1881, in which he predicted that the next Russian advance would be pushed to Panjdeh. • The Russian Advance towards India: Conversations with Skobeleff, Ignatieff, and other Russian Generals and Statesmen on the Central Asian Question, 1882 • The Russians at Merv and Herat, and their Power of Invading India, 1883.The Petroleum of the Future; Baku, the Petrolia of Europe, 1883.Reconnoitering Central Asia, Pioneering Adventures in the Region lying between Russia and India, 1884.The Region of the Eternal Fire: an Account of a Journey to the Petroleum Region of the Caspian. Written in a popularist style, it underwent several reprintings into the early 1890s. • The Railway Race to Herat. An Account of the Russian Railway to Herat and India, 1885.Shall Russia have Penjdeh? 1885.The Russians at the Gates of Herat, 1885. The best-known of his works, written and published within a week, which circulated sixty-five thousand copies. • ''Russia's Power of Attacking India, 1886.'' • The Petroleum Question. The Coming Deluge of Russian Petroleum,1886.The Petroleum Question. England as a Petroleum Power, 1887.The Petroleum Question. Our unappreciated Petroleum Empire, 1889. and translated Colonel Grodekoff's Ride from Samarcand to Herat, 1880. ==References==
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