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1. IOR/R/15/1/119-144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/119-144
Title:
Subject compilations: letters received and letters sent
Scope & Content:
From 1850 onwards letters received and letters sent were arranged under general subject headings, e.g. Arabian Coast and Persian Gulf, Slave Trade, Commercial and General etc; correspondence in each section was then bound chronologically. Separate volumes of secret correspondence and Native lette...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1850-1855
Extent:
26 volumes

2. IOR/R/15/1/121

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/121
Title:
Vol 166: 1850 Persia
Scope & Content:
This file contains letters written and received by Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. Most of the letters written by Hennell are addressed to His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
7 Jan 1850-27 Dec 1850
Extent:
1 volume, 94 items (226 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 152-156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 152-156
Title:
Letter from His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Camp Near Tehran, to Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
Scope & Content:
Justin Sheil refers to Samuel Hennell's despatch of 14 August 1850, which included a letter from Hajee Mahomed Jaffer and an istishad nameh, regarding the Agent at Shiraz [Mirza Mahmood]. Sheil argues that the istishad nameh is valueless and that Hajee Mahomed Jaffer's letter is far from conclusi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
9 Sep 1850
Extent:
5 folios

4. IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 181-186

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 181-186
Title:
Letter from His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran to Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
Scope & Content:
This letter concerns the fate of the late Mr Tasker's watch. Justin Sheil informs Samuel Hennell that he wrote to Hajee Mahomed Jaffer, requesting an explanation of the circumstances by which he came to possess Mr Tasker's watch. Sheil states that Hajee Mahomed Jaffer's reply is neither an admis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
8 Oct 1850
Extent:
6 folios

5. IOR/R/15/1/138, ff 259-268

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/138, ff 259-268
Title:
Letter no.13 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter and its enclosures relate to British pressure on the Persian authorities to suppress the slave trade in Persian ports. The following enclosures are included with Kemball's letter: A letter (folios 260-62) from Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
11 Jan 1853
Extent:
11 folios

6. IOR/R/15/1/143, ff 333-341

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/143, ff 333-341
Title:
Letter no.86 of 1854 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter and its enclosures relate to the importation of slaves into Persia by the vessel Mahmoodee, and the efforts made by the Persian Commissioner for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, Meerza Mahmood Khan, to secure their release. The following enclosures are included with Kemball’s lett...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1 Mar 1854
Extent:
9 folios

7. IOR/R/15/1/138, f 414

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/138, f 414
Title:
Letter no.274 of 1854 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government, Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The letter is an acknowledgement of Kemball's previous letter (folios 394-95), relating to the importation of seven slaves into a port near Bushire. Malet writes that, unless the men implicated in the importation are British subjects, they are not liable to British laws. Given that they appear to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
18 Jan 1854
Extent:
1 folio