This file concerns Lieutenant-Colonel Basil Woods Ballard and his position as the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman's Minister for Foreign Affairs. The correspondence mainly discusses the possibility of Woods Ballard being considered for a position as Financial Adviser in the Government of Kuwait. ...
Letter from George Skipp, in Shiraz, to James Morley, East India Company Resident at Bushire, and his assistant, George Green
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The letter is cover for a packet for the Agency at Basra. There is a postscript confirming receipt of the 'arzee' (petition) for Karim Khan's assistance from the commanders of the expedition against Kharg Island. The author informs that it cannot be delivered immediately due to it being Moharum ...
Letter from George Skipp, Company envoy to the court of Karim Khan at Schyrass [Shiraz], to William Bowyear and James Morley, East India Company Resident and factor at Bushire
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The letter is cover for a packet for the Agency at Bussora [Basra].
Letter No. 78: Copy of a Commission Issued by the Court of Directors of the East India Company to Rawson Hart Boddam, Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Bombay
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This item is a copy of a commission issued by the Court of Directors of the East India Company to Rawson Hart Boddam, appointing him as Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Bombay. It sets out Rawson Hart Boddam's duties as Governor, and refers to a recent Act of Parliament concerning the better r...
Letter no.18 to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf, from William Newnham, Chief Secretary, Government of Bombay
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The letter relates to the death of the Shaikh of Bahrain, and the intentions of the Imam of Muscat [Sa‘id bin Sulṭān al-Sa‘id] to help the late Shaikh's sons take power, and his plans to seize the Bahrain islands for himself. Newnham's letter is a covering letter, enclosing copies, in English (f...
Letter no.30 of 1825 to William Newnham, Chief Secretary, Government of Bombay, from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is a report on current events on the Arab coast, including Stannus's discussions with Shaeikh Tahnoon [Tahnun bin Shakbut] of Abu Dhabi, and Shaikh Sooltan [Sultan bin Saqr] of Sharjah. Stannus also reports a case of plunder by a Sharjah vessel against a Bahrain vessel, and the recent...
Printed copy of letter no.19 of 1859 from G. F. Forbes, Superintendent of the Dharwar Cotton Gin Factory, to T. Oglivy, Collector of Dharwar
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The letter is a half-yearly statement of the operations of the Dharwar Cotton Gin Factory for the period ending 30 November 1858, and includes: tables with the value of work done; a cotton planter’s report; and an account of the receipts and expenditure of the Cotton Experiments at the Dharwar C...
‘Site Plan Proposed Indian Assistant’s Court at Bahrain’
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This blueprint drawing is a site plan of the proposed Indian Assistant’s Court within the grounds of the Political Agency compound in Bahrain. The plan is labelled with information including the names of the rooms, measurements, and the reference ‘Drawing No. 10 of 1936’. The plan was created ...
