Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to the General Paymaster, Bombay
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Notifying the receipt from Lieutenant George Barnes Brucks of a payment for treasure shipped on board the Honourable Company's Surveying Ship Discovery for Bombay.
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Henry Willock, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, Tehran
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Acknowledgement of receipt of his letter enclosing receipts in triplicate for disbursements made from the Residency treasury on account of His Majesty's Mission.
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Henry Willock, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, Tehran
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Stannus informs Willock that, tomans being the current coin of country, the banker Aga Mohumed had withdrawn his objection to receiving the amount of his drafts in that type of coin.
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Henry Willock, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, Tehran
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Acknowledgement of receipt of a packet for Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor in Council under cover to Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, which Stannus had forwarded to Bombay by the Honourable Company's Cruiser (HCC) Palinurus.
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Captain G Walker, commanding the Honourable Company's Cruiser (HCC) Benares and Senior Officer in the Persian Gulf
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Stannus gives instructions for the Amherst to proceed from Bassidore to Bushire by way of Bahrain, taking in the pearl banks and all the fishing stations en route. The letter also concerns the Elphinstone, the Nautilus and cash for the cruisers.
General Department letter no. 1 from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to James Farish, Secretary to Government in the Commercial Department, Bombay
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Stannus asks for instructions from Government on whether British ships were allowed to carry opium from Bushire to the Dutch settlements in India [the Dutch East Indies].
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to The President and Members of the Native Pension Fund Committee, Bombay
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Stannus asks if clerks or other servants who retire from public employment at their own request are entitled to the return of any part of their contributions to the Native Pension Fund.
Political Department letter no. 41 from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay
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Covering letter for a packet [not transcribed], which Stannus had just received from Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Envoy to the Court of Persia.
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Captain G Walker, commanding the Honourable Company's Cruiser (HCC) Benares and Senior Officer in the Persian Gulf
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Asking him to communicate to all the vessels under his command the regulation that the amount of treasure freight received by all cruisers at Bushire should be paid into the treasury at the Residency, and accompanied by a return of the same.
Political Department letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to William Newnham, Chief Secretary, Government of Bombay
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The letter is written from Kandalla. There is a reference to an enclosure that is not transcribed in the volume. Stannus reports that the Imam of Muscat [Sa‘īd bin Sultān Āl Sa‘īd] had expressed his concern that the British had apparently allowed the Joassmees [Quwāsim] to act offensively against...
