Partial letter to an unknown recipient, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is truncated and its contents missing, probably as a result of the weeding and refiling that took place in 1955, to reduce three volumes to the present volume.
Partial letter to William Newnham, Chief Secretary, Government of Bombay, from an unknown sender at the Residency
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The letter is a covering letter, presumably sent by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf, forwarding a despatch received from Henry Willock, the Chargé D'Affairs at the Court of Tehran. The letter also makes mention of financial matters, however, the lette...
Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Amherst, Governor General at Fort William, from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is related to financial matters, and concerns two bills of exchange totalling 20,000 Indian rupees.
Letter no.23 to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf, from William Newnham, Chief Secretary, Government of Bombay
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The letter concerns relations between Mahomed ben Ali [Muhammad bin Ali], chief of the Beni Boo Ali [Banī Bū ‘Alī], and the Imam of Muscat [Sa‘id bin Sulṭān al-Sa‘id]. Newnham writes that Muhammad bin Ali is fearful of the Imam of Muscat's intentions towards him and his tribe, and suggests that ...
Letter to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf, from Captain G. B. Walker, Senior Officer in the Persian Gulf
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The letter acknowledges receipt of Stannus's previous letter of 12 July 1825 with its letters for Shaikh Tannoon [Tuhnun bin Shakbut] and the British Agent at Sharjah, which will be dispatched the following day on the Antelope. The letter includes two enclosures: 1) A copy of a letter (folios ...
Letter to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf, from Captain Walker, Senior Officer in the Persian Gulf
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The letter relates to the recent incident of piracy and plunder committed by a Sharjah boat against a Bahrain boat, as originally reported by Stannus (IOR/R/15/1/35, f 64v-67). Walker reports that the version of his events he has heard was that, on learning that the boat belonged to Bahrain, the...
Letter to Henry Willock, His Majesty's Chargé D'Affairs at Tehran, from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter concerns Government finances. Stannus writes that he has disposed of bills on the Bombay Government to the amount of 50,000 rupees, adding that Bengal bills are not saleable at present, 'except at a very considerable loss'.
Letter to James Farish, Secretary, Government of Bombay, from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter relates to the submission of Residency papers to the Government of Bombay. Stannus apologises for the delay in sending certain papers, which came about as a result of him being kept away from Bushire on public duty.
Letter no.53 of 1825 (Political Department) to William Newnham, Chief Secretary, Government of Bombay, from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter describes a conversation which took place between Stannus and Shaikh Soultan ben Suggar [Sultan bin Saqr] at Bassidore [Bāsa‘īdū]. Stannus writes that Shaikh Sultan described his circumstances since first being dispossessed of his dominions by the Wahhabis, and his relations with the ...
Letter from James Pringle Riach, Acting Resident, Bushire to Captain Jervis, Acting Resident, Bushire
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Riach informs Jervis that Lieutenant-Colonel Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf, had been compelled to go to India for health reasons, and that he (Riach) would be taking charge of the Residency.
