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The Narrative of a Journey Undertaken by Commander Felix Jones for Determining the Tract of the Ancient Nahrwan Canal
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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 34 of 1850, dated 25 June 1850. The enclosures are numbered 3-8 and are dated 11 April to 13 June 1850. Most of the item consists of an account ...
Political No. 153 of 1873, Forwarding a Copy of Papers Relating to the Ratification, by the Sultan of Zanzibar, of the Treaty Abolishing the Slave-Trade
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This item consists of a copy of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 15 September 1873 and received by the India Office Secret Department on 13 October 1873, forwarding a copy of papers relating to the circumstances connec...
Papers Regarding the Persian Gulf and Muscat (Vol 5) - Measures Taken to Protect British Subjects and their Property in Muscat during the Disturbances following the Death of Sultan Syud Thowenee
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This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 61 of 23 August 1866, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of Bom...
Papers Regarding the Persian Gulf and Muscat (Vol 7) - Naval Operations off Muscat - Arrangements Proposed for the Protection of the Telegraph Stations at Gwadur and Mussendom - Question of the Protection of British Property at Muscat
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This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 61 of 23 August 1866, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of Bom...
‘Persian Gulf: Sohar, Piracy attended with murder committed by the subjects of His Highness Syud Toorkee 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 ...
Copies of Letters from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Representative of the Government of India to Persia, to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, and to the Secret Committee
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A copy of a dispatch from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia [Iran], to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Bagdad [Baghdad] and dated 6 October 1810. The dispatch concerns Malcolm’s views on the state of Persia. It includes discussio...
'Translation of a letter from His Excellency Meerza Bozurg to His Excellency Sir Harford Jones Baronet & KC'
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Translation of a letter from the vizier of the Prince Royal [Crown Prince] of Persia [Iran], Mirza Bozurg [Mīrzā Buzurg], to HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia, Sir Harford Jones. The letter, written on behalf of the Prince Royal, Abbas Mirza, expresses the necessity ...
File 815/1917 Pt 11 ‘Persian Gulf:- Lighting & Buoying Service. Iraq law for the levy of light dues.’
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This part contains papers relating to the future administration of the lighting and buoying service in the Persian Gulf, hitherto carried out by the Royal Indian Marine. The papers specifically discuss the Government of Iraq arranging for the collection of dues from ships entering or leaving Ira...
Coll 16/33 'Establishments. Employment in Koweit of retired Political Agent: case of Col Dickson. appt as Chief Local Representative of the Kuwait Oil Coy.'
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The file comprises correspondence, memoranda and other documents relating to the appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson as the first Chief Local Representative of the Kuwait Oil Company following his retirement from the post of Political Agent, Kuwait [also spelled Kowe...
Coll 29/44 'Appointment of Indian Medical Service and Department officers to be Vice-Consuls: procedure, etc'
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The file concerns appointments at various consulates and at the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf. The file contains: appointment of C J Stocker as Vice-Consul and Agency Surgeon at Meshed in 1926, and exemption from payment of Persian Customs Duty; irregularities found by Foreign Office ...
