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31. IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 10-11

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 10-11
Title:
Letter from James McAlister, Civil Surgeon, Bushire, to Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
McAlister's reply to Hennell's letter of the same date (ff 8-9), regarding the altercation between his and Hennell's servants at a water well. He gives his own impression of events, refuting Hennell's suggestion of the seriousness of the confrontation and its near fatal consequences.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1851
Extent:
2 folios

32. IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 15-16

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 15-16
Title:
Letter from Assistant Surgeon James McAlister, Bushire, to Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Letter in which McAlister writes to complain to Hennell of the 'uncourteous tenor' of correspondence sent to him by Commodore Porter of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Sep 1851
Extent:
2 folios

33. IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 17-18

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 17-18
Title:
Letter no.308 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Commodore John Patterson Porter, Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Hennell writes to Porter, informing him of the Bushire Assistant Surgeon James McAlister's grievances again him (f 15). Hennell quotes McAlister at length. The circumstances of the grievances relate to the drunken conduct at the Residency of one of Porter's men, and McAlister's request to Porter ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1851
Extent:
2 folios

34. IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 19-20

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 19-20
Title:
Letter no.169 of 1851 from Commodore John Patterson Porter, Indian Naval Squadron, to Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Porter's reply to Hennell's letter (ff 17-18) stating the grievances held by the Bushire Assistant Surgeon James McAlister against Porter, provoked by the uncourteous letter McAlister claims to have received from Porter (see f 15). Porter gives his version of events surrounding the origins of the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Oct 1851
Extent:
2 folios

35. IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 21-24

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 21-24
Title:
Letter from Assistant Surgeon James McAlister, Bushire, to Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
McAlister writes to Hennell, responding in great detail to Porter's response (ff 19-20) to his version of events in his complaint against Porter (initially outlined in f 15). McAlister requests that Hennell have no objections to him making copies of this and his previous letter, to send to His Lo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Oct 1851
Extent:
4 folios

36. IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 26-27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 26-27
Title:
Primary audit on the return of coal recovered and expended on board the steam frigate Auckland between 8 July 1850 and 21 May 1851, with the explanation of the Officer commanding the Auckland annexed, with reference to his return of coal at Muscat from 1 September to 31 December 1851
Scope & Content:
Audit of coal, drawn up in response to a discrepancy of 10 tonnes being noted, where 80 tonnes of coal were loaded from the depot at Muscat, but only 70 tonnes brought to account on the Auckland's arrival in Bushire. The Commanding Officer of the Auckland states that the discrepancy can be accoun...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
? 1851
Extent:

2 folios

37. IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 28-29

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 28-29
Title:
Letter no.5746 of 1851 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
A circular memo with instructions on how best to protect paper records from damage by insects. Malet states that boxes should be sponged with a strong solution of copper sulphate in water, and that they should be lined with common brown paper saturated in the same solution.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Dec 1851
Extent:
2 folios

38. IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 31-32

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 31-32
Title:
Letter no.37 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Commodore John Patterson Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Hennell writes of the 'lawless proceedings' of Soheil ben Aleish who has carried out raids from the Guttur [Qatar] towns of Fowarit [Fuwairit], Doah [Doha] and Wukra [Al-Wakrah]. Hennell requests Porter's assistance in meting out punishment on these towns, first in the imposition of a fine of 1,0...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1851
Extent:
2 folios

39. IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 35-36

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 35-36
Title:
Letter no.1 of 1851 from Lt James Tronson, Honourable Company's brig Euphrates, to Commodore J. P. Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Tronson reports of his arrival at the island of Inderabia [Jazīreh-ye Hendorābī] and his meeting with Sheikh Abdool Ruzzack ['Abd al-Razzāq], to which he gave two letters from the Resident (see f 33 for one of the two letters). He also describes a shipwrecked bugla [boat] on the island. Tronson w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1851
Extent:
2 folios

40. IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 39-40

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 39-40
Title:
Letter from Lt Manners, Brigantine Tigris, to Commodore John Patterson Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Manners writes that his vessels have remained on the coast off Al Biddeh [al Bidda], and have made 'a true survey' of the coast and its shoals, which will allow boats to moor off al Bidda in future. However, Manners recommends against vessels travelling along the coast further south, which he des...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1851
Extent:
2 folios

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