Letter No. 88 of 1866 from Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly, HBM's Political Resident Persian Gulf, British Residency Bushire to Charles Gonne, Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
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Letter regarding a report from the native agent at Lingah [Bandar-e-Lengeh] that Sayed Torkee [Sayyid Turki bin Said] had proceeded to the Muskat coast with the intention of landing and that he had hostile intentions towards Sayed Soulem [Sayyid Soulim bin Thuwaini]. The letter also contains P...
Letter from Charles Gonne, Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay Castle to The Political Resident, Persian Gulf and The Government of India
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Letter informing the Political Resident of the Government of India's approval of his proceedings in relation to the bombardment of Sohar following Ibrahim bin Gais' [Ibrahim bin Qais] refusal to comply with demands.
Copies of letter Numbers 277, 279 and 623 of 1864 from Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Disbrowe, Political Agent, Muscat to Charles Gonne, Acting Secretary to Government, Bombay
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Copies of correspondence regarding the situation in Muscat: No. 277 of 1864, 3 December 1864 regarding His Highness the Sultan of Muscat who is engaged in an expedition against Ges bin Azar [Azzan bin Qais] of Rostock [Rustaq] and reporting that the alleged cause of the expedition is in owing to...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to His Excellency Sir Bartle Frere, KCB
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Letter regarding the recent proceedings of Russia in Southern Central Asia and observations made by Pelly on Russia's potential intentions. The letter details what Pelly views as the existing facts of Russia's movements thus far and gives his observations on how the Russians may view their cur...
Letter No.1 of 1866 from Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly, HBM's Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Muskat to Charles Gonne, Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
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Letter regarding a letter that Pelly had sent to the Wahabee [Wahhabi] Ameer [Amir Faisal ibn Turki al Sa'ud] and his thoughts that the demands made in the letter will be ignored and that therefore naval action against their forts may be required. The letter goes on to detail Pelly's intention...
'Copy of Colonel Kemball's letter to Secretary to Government Bombay about Koweit [Kuwait], Bahrein [Bahrain] and Aboo Eso [Yas Island]'
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Copy of letter No. 56 of 1866 from Colonel Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, Baghdad to the Secretary to Government of Bombay in the Political Department, Bombay written 26 June 1866. The Colonel's letter proposes that visits by the British India Steam Navigation Comp...
Letter No. 1397 from Charles Gonne, Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay Castle to The Political Resident Persian Gulf
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Cover letter enclosing a despatch from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India No. 16 dated 28 February 1867, along with enclosures to the despatch for the attention of the Political Resident. The cover letter is signed as a true copy by James Charles Edwards, Assistant Resident Persian Gulf...
Copy of letter No. 363 of 1856 from Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly HBM's Political Resident Persian Gulf, Muskat to Captain George Andrew Atkinson, Acting Political Agent, Muskat
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Copy of a letter regarding George Atkinson's violation of Government orders in having sent a telegram direct to Government which the Government had assumed that Pelly had been either the author of or had approved of, and reminding Atkinson that all correspondence must go through him.
Copy of Political Despatch No.50 from Charles Gonne, Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay Castle to the Political Resident Persian Gulf and The Acting Political Agent, Muscat
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Copy Political despatch No. 50 which encloses Political despatch No. 94 from the Secretary of State for India (Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh) to the Governor in Council, Bombay (William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald). The despatch expresses the Secretary of State's satisfact...
Letter No. 111 of 1868 from Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly, HBM's Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Kurrachee [Karachi] to The Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
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Letter regarding the recent affairs of Bahrain, Guttur [Qatar] and Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] and their breaches of the peace at sea. The letter goes on to give details of a dispute between Persia and Muscat which had given rise to the Arab tribes and boats looking to plunder Persian ports and thei...
