Letter no.165 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Edward Goldsmid, Secretary to the Government, Bombay
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The letter contains a report by Kemball on the opium trade in the Gulf, with information on the key points of export from Persia to Muscat: Bushire, Mohumrah [Khorramshahr] and Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]; importance of Muscat as an entrepôt; estimated quantities by weight of opium exported e...
Office Memorandum no.778 of 1854 from the Chief Secretary of the Government of Bombay
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The memorandum is a request to the Resident in the Persian Gulf to furnish the Government with information about the principal dominions under his jurisdiction. Enclosed with the memorandum is a list (folio 254) of information required by the Government. The list consists of eighteen points, and ...
Circular N. 5445 from the Secretary to the Government at Bombay Castle, Henry Lacon Anderson, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf
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Circular N. 5445 from the Secretary to the Government at Bombay Castle, Henry Lacon Anderson, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf, transmitting the printed copy of a translation to Persian of a general order issued by the Governor General of India in Council announcing the victory gained by the ...
Letter No. 56 of 1856 from Commander James Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to Henry Bartle Edward Frere, Commissioner in Scinde [Sind]
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The letter is a reply to the proposal to extend telegraphic communication from Kurrachee [Karāchi] to Constantinople via the Persian Gulf. It explains that the Resident does not conceive the proposal to be practical, and cites the lack of control of the Turkish Government over some of its territo...
Letter no.121 of 1857 (Secret Department) from Commander Felix Jones, Political Agent of the Persian Field Force, Civil Commissioner & Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram, Commanding the Persian Field Force
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The letter reports the death of the Imam of Muscat [Sa‘id bin Sulṭān al-Sa‘id], while en route to Zanzibar. Enclosed with the letter is the translation of an extract of a letter (folio 1v) received from the British Agent at Muscat, dated 31 January 1857, containing the original news.
Letter no.1890 of 1858 from Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Captain Felix Jones, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is a reply to Jones’s earlier letter (folio 4) relating to Residency income from financial penalties. Anderson writes that the Government approves of Jones’s proceedings.
A ‘List of Persions [persons] in the Office of the Resident in the Persian Gulf, drawing Rupees (50) fifty and upwards – their monthly pay and the nature of their qualifications’
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The list is a table showing the names, age, duration of service, present position and pay of those individuals employed by the Residency in Bushire, including the Agents at Bahrain, Sharga [Sharjah], Shiraz, and Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh]. The table also includes a column containing the Resident’s ...
Letter no.1833 of 1858 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is a request to the Resident that he send his administration report for the administrative year ending 30 April 1857 to the Government. A note on the reverse of the letter, dated 18 September 1858, gives instructions to enclose the letter to Captain Disbrowe (Assistant to the Resident...
‘REDUCTION TO SHOW RELATIONSHIP of the COMBINED PLANE TABLE AND PRISMATIC COMPASS SKETCH MAP OF THE COUNTRY BETWEEN JEBEL RŌDHAH, SOHAR AND IBRI, OMAN, ARABIA, WITH THE OMAN PENINSULA’
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Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes a note on map compilation below title with a key of reference at the lower left. On verso, at the top right-hand corner: ‘OA 6021, 7-12-25’. Top left: ‘PLATE VI’. Bottom left: ‘M.R. REG., NO. 81, APRIL 1926’.
‘TRIGONOMETRICAL PLAN of the HARBOUR OF GRANE OR KOWEIT in the GULF OF PERSIA. By Lieutts. J.M. Guy and G.B. Brucks, H.E.I.C. Marine’
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Imprint: Lithographed in the Chief Engineer’s Office by G. Luxumonjee and K, E. Bombay, 6th Sept.r 1855. Distinctive Features: Produced to accompany a report on the Harbour of Grane (or Koweit), and the Island of Pheleechi, prepared by Lieutenant J. Felix Jones, Indian Navy. Depth shown by...
