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491. IOR/R/15/1/134 ff 46-47

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/134 ff 46-47
Title:
Letter from the Residency in the Persian Gulf, to The Officer, Commanding Marine Battalion, Bombay
Scope & Content:
Reporting of the death of Private Jannac Balmac of the Marine Battalion. A bill of exchange for the deceased man's possessions is enclosed with the letter.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1852
Extent:
2 folios

492. IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 11B-14

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 11B-14
Title:
Copy of Letter no.463 of 1852 from The Commissioner in Sind to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Falkland, Governor and President in Council in Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter and its enclosures relate to the illegal trade of opium from the Arabian and Persian coasts into Sind, frequently on American vessels. Concern about the trade is based on the fact that opium from these areas is lower in price than that from Bombay, and may therefore adversely affect t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1852
Extent:
4 folios

493. IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 15-17

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 15-17
Title:
Copy of letter no.2393 of 1853 from the Secretary to Government, Territorial Department Revenue, to Major Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty’s Consul at Muscat
Scope & Content:
The letter and its enclosures relate to the opium trade at Muscat. The letter is a covering letter as well as a request for further information on the trade (arranged behind the letters it encloses, at folio 17), enclosing a copy of letter no.85 of 1853 (folios 15-16) from The Commissioner in Si...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1853
Extent:
3 folios

494. IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 18-20

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 18-20
Title:
Letter no.165 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Edward Goldsmid, Secretary to the Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter contains a report by Kemball on the opium trade in the Gulf, with information on the key points of export from Persia to Muscat: Bushire, Mohumrah [Khorramshahr] and Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]; importance of Muscat as an entrepôt; estimated quantities by weight of opium exported e...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1853
Extent:

3 folios

495. IOR/R/15/1/143, ff 253-254

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/143, ff 253-254
Title:
Office Memorandum no.778 of 1854 from the Chief Secretary of the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is a request to the Resident in the Persian Gulf to furnish the Government with information about the principal dominions under his jurisdiction. Enclosed with the memorandum is a list (folio 254) of information required by the Government. The list consists of eighteen points, and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1854
Extent:
2 folios

496. IOR/R/15/1/146, ff 40-51

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/146, ff 40-51
Title:
Circular N. 5445 from the Secretary to the Government at Bombay Castle, Henry Lacon Anderson, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Circular N. 5445 from the Secretary to the Government at Bombay Castle, Henry Lacon Anderson, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf, transmitting the printed copy of a translation to Persian of a general order issued by the Governor General of India in Council announcing the victory gained by the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
30 Dec 1854
Extent:
10 folios

497. IOR/R/15/1/150, f 12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/150, f 12
Title:
Letter No. 56 of 1856 from Commander James Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to Henry Bartle Edward Frere, Commissioner in Scinde [Sind]
Scope & Content:
The letter is a reply to the proposal to extend telegraphic communication from Kurrachee [Karāchi] to Constantinople via the Persian Gulf. It explains that the Resident does not conceive the proposal to be practical, and cites the lack of control of the Turkish Government over some of its territo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1856
Extent:

1 folio

498. IOR/R/15/1/160, f 1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/160, f 1
Title:
Letter no.121 of 1857 (Secret Department) from Commander Felix Jones, Political Agent of the Persian Field Force, Civil Commissioner & Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram, Commanding the Persian Field Force
Scope & Content:
The letter reports the death of the Imam of Muscat [Sa‘id bin Sulṭān al-Sa‘id], while en route to Zanzibar. Enclosed with the letter is the translation of an extract of a letter (folio 1v) received from the British Agent at Muscat, dated 31 January 1857, containing the original news.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1857
Extent:
1 folio

499. IOR/R/15/1/160, f 5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/160, f 5
Title:
Letter no.1890 of 1858 from Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Captain Felix Jones, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The letter is a reply to Jones’s earlier letter (folio 4) relating to Residency income from financial penalties. Anderson writes that the Government approves of Jones’s proceedings.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jul 1858
Extent:
1 folio

500. IOR/R/15/1/160, ff 2A-3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/160, ff 2A-3
Title:
A ‘List of Persions [persons] in the Office of the Resident in the Persian Gulf, drawing Rupees (50) fifty and upwards – their monthly pay and the nature of their qualifications’
Scope & Content:
The list is a table showing the names, age, duration of service, present position and pay of those individuals employed by the Residency in Bushire, including the Agents at Bahrain, Sharga [Sharjah], Shiraz, and Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh]. The table also includes a column containing the Resident’s ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1858
Extent:
2 folios