This item contains manuscript copies of secret letters, despatches, memoranda, intelligence reports relating to the development of an Agency in Somalia. Topics covered: A despatch from the Acting Political Resident at Aden including a report by Lieutenant Burton, 18th Regiment Bombay [Mumbai],...
Persian Gulf, Slave Trade: Relative to the case of a kidnapped Somali Girl.
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This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch Volume 7 of 23 December 1859, 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 Governmen...
Proposed Transfers of Aden and Somali Coast to Imperial Government; and of Persian Legation to India
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This secret and confidential memorandum, printed by the Foreign Office Press in June 1890, concerns the issue of the proposed transfer of Aden, the Somali Coast and everything connected with the Red Sea from the Government of India, and leaving British representation in Persia entirely in the han...