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51441. IOR/R/15/6/27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/27
Title:
File XXIII/1 British Consulate Muscat, Travels in Oman, 1894-1900
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding a proposed journey from Muscat across southern Arabia to Hadhramaut in Yemen by the explorer, James Theodore Bent. The correspondence focuses on Bent's request for an Indian surveyor in the employ of the Government of India to accompany him on the tr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1894-25 Nov 1894
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

51442. IOR/R/15/6/227

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/227
Title:
File 8/50 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: SAIYID ALI BIN FAISAL
Scope & Content:
This file concerns complaints made by Sayyid Ali bin Faisal [Sayyid ‘Alī bin Fayṣal Āl Bū Sa‘īd], son of the late Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd] and younger brother of the current Sultan [Taymūr bin Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Sa‘īd], about Bertram Thomas's conduct as Financial...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Oct 1927-11 May 1928
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

51443. IOR/R/15/6/245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/245
Title:
File 8/62 IV PRINCIPAL SHAIKHS & TRIBES OF OMAN.
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the principal shaikhs and tribes of Oman, and also to the Imam of Oman's administration. It largely consists of copies of (and various amendments to) two reports. The first of these is an account by the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat entitled 'Notes on the Tribes of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1950-25 Dec 1951
Extent:
1 file (137 folios)

51444. IOR/R/15/6/279

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/279
Title:
File 8/85 IV MINISTER for FOREIGN AFFAIRS MUSCAT
Scope & Content:
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. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1950-21 Nov 1951
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

51445. IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 25v-26

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 25v-26
Title:
Letter from George Skipp, in Shiraz, to James Morley, East India Company Resident at Bushire, and his assistant, George Green
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 May 1768
Extent:

2 folios

51446. IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 182v-183

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 182v-183
Title:
Letter from James Morley, East India Company Resident at Bushire, to Lieutenant Maurice Lyston, commander of the Eagle snow
Scope & Content:
The letter is an order to go in pursuit of some of Meer Mahanna's [Mīr Muhanna] gallivats near Halela [Heleylah].
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1768
Extent:

2 folios

51447. IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 237v-238

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 237v-238
Title:
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
Scope & Content:
The letter is cover for a packet for the Agency at Bussora [Basra].
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1767
Extent:

2 folios

51448. IOR/R/15/1/4, f 49

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/4, f 49
Title:
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
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1785
Extent:
1 folio

51449. IOR/R/15/1/25, f 74v 2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/25, f 74v 2
Title:
Letter No 6 of 1822 from William Bruce, Resident at Bushire to James Henderson, Secretary to the Government, General Department, Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter is reporting that W A Willand of the artillery died on the 16 November 1822, having arrived at Bushire aboard the HC Cruizer Mercury.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1822
Extent:

1 folio

51450. IOR/R/15/1/35, ff 4-8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/35, ff 4-8
Title:
Letter no.18 to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf, from William Newnham, Chief Secretary, Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1825
Extent:
5 folios

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