Enclosures nos. 3-4 to dispatch no. 15 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 27 April 1861. The enclosures are dated 2 April 1861. Received 20 May 1861. The enclosures consist of intelligence reports on Abyssinia [Ethiopia] and Aden by Captain Robert Lambert Playfair, Assistant Polit...
Enclosure no. 3 to dispatch no. 19 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 27 May 1861. The enclosure is dated 13 March 1861. No date of receipt. The enclosure consists of a letter from James McAdam Hyslop, Officiating Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, forwarding a dispatch sent to HB...
Enclosure no. 3 to dispatch no. 20 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 12 June 1861. The enclosure is dated 10 April 1861. No date of receipt. The enclosure consists of a letter from James McAdam Hyslop, Officiating Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, forwarding a dispatch sent to H...
Enclosures nos. 3-4 to dispatch no. 21 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 21 June 1861. The enclosures are dated April 1861. Received 15 [?] July 1861. The enclosures consist of letters from Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Palmer Rigby, HM Consul and British Agent, Zanzibar, concer...
This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay’s Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 9 of 1854, dated 28 January 1854. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 18 January 1854. The papers relate to affairs in Persia [Iran] an...
Report on the Effects of Famine in Kirman Province
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This item comprises a copy of a general despatch and enclosure from the Government of India, Foreign Department, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 6 of 1872, dated 5 April 1872. The enclosure is a report, dated Camp Azizabad, 15 January 1872, by Quarter-Master Serjeant [Sergeant] David Bow...
Papers relating to affairs in Aden following the capture and occupation of the city by British forces, 19 January 1839. They notably cover the following: strengthening of port defences against piracy; control of traffic; vessels and cargo in the port; plans for the extension of fortifications an...
Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 33 of 1847, dated 1 April 1847. The enclosures are dated 17 to 19 March 1847 and contain correspondence relating to the limited supply of iron lids from England for mailboxes (boxes used to tr...
Ink sketch of a plan of the fort of Kilat-i-Chilzie [Qalat-e Gilzay, Afghanistan], as encountered by theKandahar Mission, a British diplomatic mission to Afghanistan. The map shows the barracks, officers' quarters, stores, magazine and other features inside the fort.