‘Sketch map showing the approximate locations of the BAHREIN OIL Co’s. establishments and other important points.’
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This sketch map shows the northern part of Bahrein Island [Bahrain Island], Muharrak Island, and Sitra Island. It indicates the approximate locations of establishments of the Bahrein Oil Company [the Bahrein Petroleum Company], including the oil fields, the refinery, the loading lines (pipes) ca...
Genre: Portrait Photography Mounted facing p. 43. Portrait group of Macaulay and other mission members, posed with the Jongpen in front of a tent: 'This morning I kept my tent standing in order to have a photograph of the group taken...The Jongpen and his people all took the greatest interest i...
Settlement and Demarcation of the Frontier between Persia and Baluchistan
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Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 31 October 1871, concerning the settlement and demarcation of the frontier between Persia and Khelat [Kalāt], in Beloochistan [Baluchistan]. The frontier settlement mission was led by Major-General Frederick John Goldsmid. The pape...
Renewal of the Lease of Bunder Abbass by Persia to Syud Toorkee
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This item comprises copies of a secret despatch and enclosures from the Government of India, Foreign Department, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 22 of 1872, dated 5 April 1872. The enclosures are dated 23 September to 15 December 1871 and concern negotiations between the Imam [Imām, also...
Turkish Government Proposal for Pearl Diving Operations on the Coast of Nejd
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This item comprises copies of a political despatch and enclosures from the Government of India, Foreign Department, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 131 of 1872, dated 17 June 1872. The enclosures date from 29 March to 23 May 1872 and concern reports of Turkish [Ottoman] efforts to establ...
Proceedings of the Government of Bombay connected with the ‘Slave Trade’
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This part of the volume consists of a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, No. 106 of 1842, dated 30 September 1842. The despatch is on the information supplied by the Assistant Resident, Arnold Burrowes Kemball, and Resident in the Persian Gulf, Colon...
Comparative Statistics of the Health of the Troops at Aden
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This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 64 of 1847, dated 16 July 1847. The enclosures are dated 11-15 June 1847 (although some internal documents date back to 1 April 1847). The primary docu...
Enclosure in Sir Harford Jones's Letter No. 5 of 23 May 1810
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A copy of a note from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia [Iran], to Persian Ministers, undated. The note concerns the confusion created by the presence of both Malcolm and Sir Harford Jones, HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Pe...
‘Translation of a letter from H. Excy the Kaim Makaum to the Envoy’
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Translation of a letter from the Kaim Makaum, Abul Cosseim [Mīrzā Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qā’im-Maqām, the Vizier of the Crown Prince of Persia], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir. The Kaim Makaum reports the consent of the Prince Royal [ʿ...
‘Translation of a letter addressed by The Kaim Mukam to General Paskevitch’
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Translation of a letter from the Kaim Mukam [Mīrzā Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qā’im-Maqām, the Vizier of the Crown Prince of Persia] to General Paskevitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia]. The Kaim Mukam reports that the Persian Government is desirous of ne...
