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1. IOR/R/15/1/121

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/121
Title:
Vol 166: 1850 Persia
Scope & Content:
This file contains letters written and received by Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. Most of the letters written by Hennell are addressed to His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
7 Jan 1850-27 Dec 1850
Extent:
1 volume, 94 items (226 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/121, f 73

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IOR/R/15/1/121, f 73
Title:
Letter No. 193: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran
Scope & Content:
Samuel Hennell encloses two letters (not included): one from Mirza Ahmed Khan to Hennell, on the subject of Mirza Ahmed Khan's relations with the Shiraz Agent, Mirza Mahmood; and one from Mirza Abdool Bakee to Hennell, which concerns a gold watch (first referred to by Hennell in his earlier lette...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1850
Extent:
1 folio

3. IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 2-4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 2-4
Title:
Letter No. 5: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran
Scope & Content:
This letter includes four enclosures: Translation of a letter, dated December 1849, from His Royal Highness the Prince of Shiraz to Samuel Hennell regarding the Nuwabi Hajeea, mother of Mahomed Mirza, and her claim that an Armenian named Mr Constantine Arrakeel (also referred to as Aga Baba) ill...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1850
Extent:
3 folios

4. IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 22-23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 22-23
Title:
Letter No. 58: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran
Scope & Content:
Samuel Hennell returns enclosures (not included) from Justin Sheil's despatch of 10 January 1850. This letter concerns custom duties extracted from Armenian merchants by the Government of Bushire. Hennell goes on to discuss duties in further detail, particularly those levied on Dutch merchandise.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Feb 1850
Extent:
2 folios

5. IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 52-53

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 52-53
Title:
Letter from His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran, to Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
Scope & Content:
Justin Sheil transmits two complaints (not included) that have reached him from Sheeraz [Shiraz], regarding the Agent at that city, Meerza Mahmood. Sheil asks Samuel Hennell to establish the truth or falsehood of these claims. Sheil also encloses a letter (not included) which is apparently addres...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Mar 1850
Extent:
2 folios

6. IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 80-85

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 80-85
Title:
Letter from His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran, to Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
Scope & Content:
This letter concerns complaints made against the Agent at Shiraz, Meerza Mahmood, and the origins of a gold watch which was recently sold by him. Justin Sheil disagrees with Samuel Hennell's opinion that the complaints, made by Mahomed Hoosein and Meerza Ahmed Khan respectively, are without any ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1850
Extent:
6 folios

7. IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 88-89A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 88-89A
Title:
Letter No. 269: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran
Scope & Content:
This letter concerns a communication, recently received by Samuel Hennell from Sheik Mahomed ben Khuleefa [Muhammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah], Chief of Bahrein [Bahrain], in which the Sheik sought Hennell's advice on whether to respond to a communication from Mirza Jaffer Khan, the Persian Commi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jul 1850
Extent:
2 folios

8. IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 169-177

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 169-177
Title:
Letter No. 383: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran
Scope & Content:
Samuel Hennell forwards the following enclosures: three translated substances of reports from the Agent at Shiraz [Mirza Mahmood], covering 26 August to 7 September, 14 September to 23 September, and 23 September to 10 October 1850 respectively. Subjects include: various dismissals and appointme...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Oct 1850
Extent:

9 folios

9. IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 189-190

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 189-190
Title:
Letter from His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran, to Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
Scope & Content:
Justin Sheil acknowledges the receipt of Samuel Hennell's despatch of 11 September 1850, no. 349, which concerned an act of piracy that was committed in 1845, on a boat belonging to Hajee Yacoob. Sheil asks Hennell if there was any particular reason why he did not make an application to Colonel F...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Oct 1850
Extent:
2 folios

10. IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 218-219

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 218-219
Title:
Letter No. 449: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to Commodore John Patterson Porter, Commander of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This letter concerns arrangements for British officers to land at Bushire without being detained. Samuel Hennell refers to a recent incident involving Lieutenant James Tronson, Commander of the HC brig of war, Euphrates, who was detained by sirbaz [foot soldiers] upon his arrival at Bushire. Henn...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1850
Extent:
2 folios