Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Captain G Walker, Senior Officer, Persian Gulf
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Stannus asks Walker to arrange for the despatch to Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] by any available cruiser of an important letter to Tahnoon bin Shakhboot [Tahnun bin Shakhbut]. The officer commanding the cruiser was then to return direct to Bushire with the reply.
Political Department letter no. 24 from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay
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Stannus refers to the seizure by an Attoobee bugla [buggalow] from Bahrein [Bahrain] of a consignment of coffee from a boat belonging to Mocha. He reports that the Imam of Muscat [Said bin Sultan al-Said] had forced the bugla to restore the coffee to its rightful owners at Bombay.
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to John Wedderburn, Accountant General, Bombay
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Stannus reports the theft of the most valuable of the kaleoons [kalian/kalioun, water-pipe] belonging to the Residency. He had procured a replacement from Shiraz and enclosed a copy of the bill (not transcribed).
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Mountstuart Elphinstone, President and Governor in Council, Bombay
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Notification that Stannus had granted three sets of bills of exchange [two listed] on the Honourable Board to meet the demands of the Residency in favour of Mirza Syed Mahomed and Jabatoboy Ramdass.
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to John Wedderburn, Accountant General, Bombay
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Covering letter for a register of two sets of bills of exchange [not transcribed] on the Honourable Governor in Council to meet the demands of the Residency.
Political Department letter no 26 from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay
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Stannus requests authorisation for the payment of a monthly allowance of fifteen rupees to the Residency shroff [cashier].
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Captain Mitchell, commanding the ship Soultan
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The letter contains Stannus's response to complaints made by Mitchell about obstructive behaviour on the part of people at the Customs House in Bushire.
Political Department letter no. 27 from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay
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Stannus gives a list of dispatches in the Political Department addressed to the Residency, which had remained unanswered up to that date.
Political Department letter no. 28 from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay
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Stannus reports that Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald had left Bushire that morning on his route to Teheran [Tehran].