The Battle Axe of Nadir Shah Selected from the Sind Prize Property
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This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 97 of 1847, dated 15 November 1847. The enclosures are numbered 3-8 and are dated 2 to 15 November 1847. The enclosures concern the bat...
‘Passport regulations recently promulgated by the Sublime Porte in the Pachalie of Bagdad’
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Enclosures no. 2-7 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle, dated 28 February 1848. The enclosures are dated 23 October 1847-26 February 1848. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to new passport regulations in Bagdad [Baghdad] imposed by the Govern...
‘Persian Gulf: Angaum, Murder of certain parties on the Island of’
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This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch No. 47 of 22 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 Government ...
'Translation of Firman from His Majesty Fath Ali Shah to the Prince Royal Abbas Meerza'
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A translation of a Firman [edict] from Fath Ali Shah [Fath-ʻAlī Shāh Qājār], Shah of Persia [Iran], to Abbas Meerza ['Abbās Mīrzā], Prince Royal (Crown Prince), sent from Tehran and dated Zeekadah [Zū al-Qaʿdah] 1224 (December 1809-January 1810). Following the conclusion of an alliance with Br...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 29 Mar 1820
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A copy of a letter from Major-General William Grant Keir, Commander of the 1819 expedition to the Persian Gulf, to Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay [Mumbai], sent from HMS Liverpool off the island of Kenn [Kīsh] and dated 21 February 1820. The letter contains a report ...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 29 Mar 1820
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A report on the island of Qeis or Kenn [Kīsh] compiled by John McNeil from information gathered from inhabitants of the island and the adjacent Persian [Iranian] coast, undated. The report examines the relations of nearby Persian ports, in particular Charrack [Bandar-e Chārak], with the Joasmees...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 6 Jul 1820
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A copy of a letter from Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], to Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], sent from Baroda [Vadodara] and dated 1 April 1820. The letter instructs Willock to solicit the Persian Government for the concession of Kenn [Kīsh] as a milit...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 6 Jul 1820
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A copy of a letter from Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], to Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], sent from Baroda [Vadodara] and dated 1 April 1820. The letter instructs Willock to solicit the Persian Government for the concession of Kenn [Kīsh] as a militar...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 26 Dec 1820
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A translation of a note from Hajee Mahomed Hussein Khan [Haji Mohammad Husayn Khān Isfahānī], Sudr Aazim [Sadr-e ’Azam, Prime Minister] of Persia [Iran], to Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia, dated 10 December 1820. The letter announces that an envoy will be sent by the Prince of S...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 25 Jan 1822
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A copy of a note from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], to Mirza Abdul Wahab [Mīrzā Abdul Wahāb Nishāt Isfahānī], Foreign Minister of Persia, sent from Tehran and dated 13 January 1822. In response to Mirza Abdul Wahab’s note (IOR/LPS/9/69/83), Willock rejects the Persian i...
