Enclosure no. 3 to dispatch no. 5 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 9 May 1839. The enclosure is dated 13 March 1839. The enclosure consists of a letter signed by the Officiating Secretary to the Government of India and sent to the Government of Bombay as a reply to four forward...
Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 28 of 1840, dated 13 April 1840. The enclosures are dated [1 October 1839-2 March 1840] and contain correspondence relating to: Concerns of the East India Company (EIC) for the provisions, bho...
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Governor-General of India, Allahabad, Secret Department, to the East India Company Secret Committee, Number 29A of 1842, dated 16 August 1842. The enclosures are numbered 1-12 and dated 7-28 July 1842. There is no abstract of conten...
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 17 October 1871. The papers consist of telegrams from the Political Secretary to the Government of Bombay to the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, enclosing correspondence from Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly...
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 20 December 1871, concerning the settlement of the frontier between Persia and Khelat [Kalāt], in Beloochistan [Baluchistan]. The frontier settlement mission was led by Major-General Frederick John Goldsmid. The papers include: cor...
Turkish Allegations of British Acts of Sovereignty in Bahrein
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This item comprises copies of a despatch and enclosures from the Government of India, Foreign Department, to the Duke of Argyll, HM Secretary of State for India, Number 29 of 1873, dated 14 March 1873. The enclosures are dated from 25 January to 18 February 1873, consist of printed copies of corr...
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay, Secret Department, to the Secret Committee, Number 10 of 1850, dated 16 February 1850. The enclosed papers, dated 19 December 1849 to 15 February 1850, concern affairs in Abyssinia [Ethiopia an...
Request for a Copy of the Foreign Office Cipher Code
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Secret Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 20 of 1871, dated 11 January 1871. The despatch requests a copy of the Foreign Office Telegraph Code, following ‘great inconvenience’ and delay having been caused in ‘an important matter’...
John Malcolm's Report on the Condition of Affairs in Persia
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The item comprises one enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee: Bombay Secret Letter 8 September 1828. The enclosure consists of a memorandum by the President in Council, John Malcolm, on the condition of affairs in Persia [Iran] ...
Intelligence from Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil Concerning Affairs in Persia [Iran]
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The letters convey intelligence of the movements of the Shah of Persia [Iran]; the Shah’s purported aggressive intentions regarding Afghanistan or ‘Khorassan’ (chiefly Herat), and Turkey [Ottoman Empire] (chiefly Bagdad [Baghdad] and Azerbijan [Azerbaijan]); conditions in Herat since the ending ...