Sind Affairs: Matters Relating to Afghanistan and Kelat
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This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 6 dated 15 January 1856. The enclosures are dated 8 December 1855-11 January 1856. The primary correspondents are Henry Bartle Edward Frere, ...
Muscat: Settlement of matters and revival of trade
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The item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch No. 1 of January 1868, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay, Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of Bo...
‘Letter from the Moatimid a Dowluh to the British Envoy’
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Letter from the Moatimid a Dowluh, Abdul Wahab [Mīrzā ‘Abd al-Wahhāb Nishāṭ Iṣfahānī, Mu‘tamid al-Dawlah], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir. The Moatimid a Dowluh reports that Mirza Abul Hussain Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī, Per...
Letters from William Digges Latouche to the Court of Directors
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Two letters from William Digges Latouche, Resident at Bussora [Basra], to the Court of Directors for Affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies [East India Company]. The first letter, dated 23 January 1781, forwards intelligence received from India, Muscat,...
Letters from William Digges Latouche to the Secret Committee
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Two letters from William Digges Latouche, Resident at Bussora [Basra], to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors for Affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies (East India Company). The first letter, dated 30 March 1783, covers subjects including: T...
Letter from Harford Jones to Alexander Stratton with enclosures
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A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Alexander Stratton, HM Minister Plenipotentiary to the Ottoman Empire, sent from Bagdad and dated 30 August 1802. The letter forwards reports from Persia [Iran] of military preparations believed to be related to a campaign a...
Letters from Harford Jones to Lord Wellesley and Alexander Stratton
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A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Bagdad and dated 12 August 1802. The letter forwards correspondence (attached) relating to the death of Soliman Pasha [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad], a...
Extract of Letter from Jonathan Lovett to N B Edmonstone
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An extract of a letter from Jonathan Henry Lovett, Resident in Bushire [Bushehr], to Neil Edmonstone, Secretary to the Government of Bengal, written in 1803. Lovett reports his arrival in Bushire, the reaction in Persia [Iran] to the news of the death of Hajee Khulleel Khan [Ḥājī Muḥammad Kha...
File 21/1911 Pt 1 'Aden Protectorate:- Italian & French recruitment of Arabs.'
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The papers concern the recruitment by the governments of Italy and France of natives of the British protectorate of Aden for military and colonial policing purposes. The main correspondents are the Political Resident, Aden; the Viceroy of India; and senior officials of the Foreign Office, the I...
PZ 3790/33 'Iraq: arrest of Captain Macleod, Harbour Master at Abadan Reach, by Persian Naval Authorities in the entrance of the Shatt-el-Arab.'
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The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the arrest of a British harbour-master by the Persian naval authorities, who sought a sum of money for his release. The discussion in the file relates to the communication by British officials with the ...