This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 1 dated 1 January 1857. The enclosures are dated 9 November-29 December 1856. The papers relate to the conclusion of a treaty with the Habr A...
Folios 223-240 chiefly comprise correspondence and minutes of senior legal, financial and administrative officials of the Government in Bombay [Mumbai], and the Secretary to the Government of India, with the Governor-General. The main subjects covered are: The legality of sending convicts to Ad...
Regarding Monsieur Lederer and his Passage to Bussorah [Basra]
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This item consists primarily of two letters between the Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Governor-General of India, dated between 22 August and 2 September 1839. It relates to an Austrian gentleman named Monsieur Lederer, and his passage to Bussorah [Basra] from Bombay [Mumbai].
Enclosures to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 1 December 1841. The enclosures are dated 5-27 November 1841. The enclosures consist of correspondence relating to a survey of Phaleeche Island [Failaka Island, Kuwait] to assess its appropriateness for a po...
Enclosure nos. 1-2 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 1 December 1841. The enclosures are dated 4-18 November 1841. The enclosures consist of a memorandum and covering letter from the Officiating Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay relating to a...
This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 53 of 1843. The enclosure consists of the following: A letter from HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, t...
Enclosures no. 2-7 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 27 August 1844. The enclosures are dated 17 July-27 August 1844. The enclosures consist of correspondence relating to a ‘Memoir on the South and East Coasts of Arabia’, written by the Political Agent, Aden...
Abstract of Contents of a Despatch Relating to the Aga Khan Mehlatee
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Abstract of contents of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 52 of 1847, dated 3 June 1847. The enclosures themselves are not included in the item. The enclosures are dated 3 December 1846 to 23 May 1847 and contain corresponden...
This item comprises a copy of [extracts of] an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee: Bombay Secret Letter No. 6 dated 1838. Annotated ‘Received per Malta 5 December 1838’. The letters in the enclosure are dated 13-29 June 1838. The paper...
This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 41 of 1840, dated 30 June 1840. The enclosure consists of a summary of intelligence on various places, compiled by Assistant Secretary to the...