Letter no.280 of 1854 from Lieutenant Herbert Disbrowe, Assistant Resident in Charge, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter is an enclosing letter, containing letter A from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, dated 1 July 1854. Kemball’s letter is a report on the ruling families and predominant tribes of the Persian Gulf, as reques...
Letter no.3A from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter relates to five manumitted slaves currently residing at Bassadore [Bāsa‘īdū] for passage to Bombay. Kemball writes that the eldest of the five slaves has requested he be freed to earn a livelihood at Bassadore, and that, given his age of about eighteen or nineteen, Kemball has agreed t...
Letter no.351 of 1855 from Lieutenant Herbert Disbrowe, Assistant Resident in Charge, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter is related to previous correspondence between Kemball and Anderson over explanations of the contrasting successes of the suppression of the slave trade on the Persian and Arab coasts. Disbrowe writes that he has passed on to Meerza Mahmood Khan, the Persian Slave Trade Commissioner, t...
Circular no.5105 of 1855, from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The printed circular encloses a number of despatches for the attention of the Resident, as follows: 1. An extract of paragraph 15 of despatch no.11 of 1855 from the Court of Directors, dated 5 September 1855, relating to inappropriately heavy fines imposed on the Stipendiary Police, in relation...
Letter no.3156 of 1856 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter relates to previous correspondence from Jones, informing the Government that the British Agent at Muscat had informed him that the man responsible for kidnapping a Somali girl had been apprehended. Anderson writes that the Government approves of the communication from the British Agent.
'OILFIELDS & CONCESSION AREAS IN THE MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES TOGETHER WITH NEIGHBOURING OILFIELDS IN THE U.S.S.R.'
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Map produced by the Research Department of the Foreign Office to accompany the document 'A Survey of the oil resources in the Middle East', showing all the known oilfields and concession areas of the Middle East along with neighbouring oilfields in Persia, Afghanistan and the USSR. The oilfield...
Political Department letter no. 23 from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay
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Stannus reports that he had furnished the Envoy to the Court of Persia (Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald) with certain stores for the use of his mission to Tehran. The letter is followed by an enclosure to the above, being a receipt and list of the stores in question, signed by Macdonald and ...
Letter from Henry Moore and George Skipp, East India Company Agents at Bussora [Basra], to James Morley, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter outlines Moore's current stance with regard to the disputes between Carim Caun [Karim Khan Zand] and the Sheikhs of Bushire and Bahreen [Bahrain]. The fear of a Persian attack on Bushire is mentioned, Bushire's supplying of the Ormuse [Hormuz] Expedition is praised, and the visit by S...
Letter from Henry Moore and George Skipp, East India Company Agents at Bussora [Basra], to James Morley, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter discusses the loss of The Defiance and the wills of William Bowyear and Dymoke Lyster, both of whom died in the accident. The appointment of John Yoakly Botham as temporary assistant at Bushire is announced. Pleasure is expressed at the news of the withdrawal of Persian troops from aro...
Letter from Henry Moore and George Skipp, East India Company Agents at Bussora [Basra], to James Morley, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter discusses recent affairs in the region, including: Shaik Sadoon's [Shaykh Sa‘dūn, of Bushire] reception at Carim Caun's [Karim Khan] court in Schiras [Shiraz] and the current dispute between the two; William Bowyear's recent death; the news that the Chaub's [Ka‘b tribe] gallivats (a t...
