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31. IOR/R/15/1/132, f 232

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/132, f 232
Title:
Letter No. 451 of 1855 from Commander James Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to Commodore Richard Ethersey, Commander of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf, at the Bushire Roads
Scope & Content:
The letter is enquiring as to whether a native boat may be hired to convey a packet to Bassidore [Bāsaʻīdū], so that it may be conveyed from there to Bombay. It explains that Charles Augustus Murray, the late British Envoy to Persia, had suggested that all disposable British vessels should be ret...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Dec 1855
Extent:

1 folio

32. IOR/R/15/1/132, f 233

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/132, f 233
Title:
Letter from Commodore Richard Ethersey, Commander of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf, aboard the HC Corvette Falkland in the Bushire Roads, to Commander James Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The letter advises that the Acting Resident's proposal to hire a native boat to convey a packet to Bassidore [Bāsaʻīdū] — for transmission to Bombay — may not be the speediest means of transmitting it to India. Instead the Commodore advises awaiting the arrival of the steamer Semiramis at Bushire.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Dec 1855
Extent:

1 folio

33. IOR/R/15/1/132, f 236

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/132, f 236
Title:
Letter No. 48 of 1856 from Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay to Commander James Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The letter is conveying the approval of the Governor of Bombay respecting the Acting Resident's acknowledgement that great caution should be exercised to 'prevent a collision with the Persian Authorities'.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jan 1856
Extent:

1 folio

34. IOR/R/15/1/132, ff 1A-2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/132, ff 1A-2
Title:
Letter from Justin Sheil, HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, at Tehran to Lieutenant Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The letter is informing the Resident that the Persian Government has appointed Mirza Mahmood Khan — son-in-law of the Minister of Foreign Affairs — to oversee the detention of Persian slaving vessels from a British cruizer; the British have been authorised to detain Persian ships suspected of car...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1851
Extent:
2 folios

35. IOR/R/15/1/132, ff 3-4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/132, ff 3-4
Title:
Letter No. 78 of 1852 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay to Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The letter is enclosing a communication (No. 44 of 1852) from Stephen Lushington, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy, to Lucius Bentinck Cary, Viscount Falkland, President and Governor in Council, Bombay, dated 22 January 1852. The enclosure concerns instructions to be issued for the guidance...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Feb 1852
Extent:
2 folios

36. IOR/R/15/1/132, ff 5-6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/132, ff 5-6
Title:
Letter No. 5 of 1852 from Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter is drawing the Chief Secretaries attention to the weak strength of the squadron in the Persian Gulf. It explains that he would have prevented the return of the HC Schooner Constance to Bombay if it had been in a fit enough condition; it is requested that the vessel is returned to the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1852
Extent:
2 folios

37. IOR/R/15/1/132, ff 8-11

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/132, ff 8-11
Title:
Letter No. 7 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter is reporting that the Resident has discovered a discrepancy in the expiry date in the Treaty for Maritime Truce 1843; the 'English date' indicates June 1853, while the 'Mahomedan [Mohammedan] date' indicates February 1853. It explains that as all the parties — with the exception of Ab...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1852
Extent:

4 folios

38. IOR/R/15/1/132, ff 12-13

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/132, ff 12-13
Title:
Letter No. 302 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to Commodore George Robinson, Commander of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire
Scope & Content:
The letter is instructing the Commodore to deliver communications to all the parties of the Treaty of Maritime Peace 1843. This is as a result of the discovery of a discrepancy between the 'English' and 'Mahomedan' [Mohammedan] expiry date, and the Resident is requesting that the parties involved...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Sep 1852
Extent:

2 folios

39. IOR/R/15/1/132, ff 15-20

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/132, ff 15-20
Title:
Letter No. 8 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter is enclosing translations of communications received from parties subscribing to the continuation of the terms of the Maritime Truce 1843, and states that they give a general indication of the attitudes of the 'Arabian chiefs' towards the renewal of the treaty, or its replacement. It ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1852
Extent:

6 folios

40. IOR/R/15/1/132, ff 21-24

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/132, ff 21-24
Title:
Letter No. 447 of 1852 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay to Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The letter concerns the replacement of the Maritime Truce 1843 with a Perpetual Treaty of Maritime Peace. Enclosed is a letter (No. 4752 of 1852) on the subject from Charles Allen, Officiating Secretary to the Government of India to the Chief Secretary to the Bombay Government, dated 18 December...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1852
Extent:

4 folios

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