Letter No. 78 of 1852 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay to Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is enclosing a communication (No. 44 of 1852) from Stephen Lushington, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy, to Lucius Bentinck Cary, Viscount Falkland, President and Governor in Council, Bombay, dated 22 January 1852. The enclosure concerns instructions to be issued for the guidance...
Letter No. 178 of 1853 Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to William Taylor Thomas, HM Chargé d'affaires at the Court of Persia, at Tehran
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The letter is enclosing a report on the state of Persian fortifications at Karrack [Khārk, Jazīreh-ye]; the investigation was undertaken as a result of a suggestion from James Howard Harris, Lord Malmesbury and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Note that Karrack is also spelt Kharg in...
Letter No. 62 of 1854 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay to Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire
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The letter is instructing the Resident that in the event that Persia declares war on Turkey, the steamer Akbar — currently at Bushire — should be ordered to immediately return to Bombay. It further conveys the approval of the Bombay Government over the Resident's decision to send the steamer Auck...
Letter No. 1 & D of 1855 from Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay
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The letter concerns a protest made by Shaikh Mahomed bin Khuleefeh [Muḥammed bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah], Chief of Bahrein [Bahrain], against the 'evasive policy of Ameer Fysul [Amīr Fayṣul], the Wahabi Chief' towards his exiled kinsmen at Demaun [Ad-Dammān]; the Chief of Bahrein desires for his k...
Letter No. 12 of 1855 from Commander James Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay
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The letter is reporting that the British Envoy to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray, has broken off diplomatic relations with the Persian Government, and left Tehran for Monsul [Al-Mawṣil]. It notes that Consul R W Stevens has been made responsible for communications with the Government of Persia,...
Letter from Justin Sheil, British Envoy to Tehran, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is a reply to Kemball's previous letter (folio 35), in which Sheil states that Malcolm mistakes the degree of protection the British authorities can offer him in Persia, continuing that he 'declines to interfere in the arrangement of private commercial transactions.'
Letter from the Residency in the Persian Gulf, to The Officer, Commanding Marine Battalion, Bombay
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Reporting of the death of Private Jannac Balmac of the Marine Battalion. A bill of exchange for the deceased man's possessions is enclosed with the letter.
Copy of Letter no.463 of 1852 from The Commissioner in Sind to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Falkland, Governor and President in Council in Bombay
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The letter and its enclosures relate to the illegal trade of opium from the Arabian and Persian coasts into Sind, frequently on American vessels. Concern about the trade is based on the fact that opium from these areas is lower in price than that from Bombay, and may therefore adversely affect t...
Copy of letter no.2393 of 1853 from the Secretary to Government, Territorial Department Revenue, to Major Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty’s Consul at Muscat
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The letter and its enclosures relate to the opium trade at Muscat. The letter is a covering letter as well as a request for further information on the trade (arranged behind the letters it encloses, at folio 17), enclosing a copy of letter no.85 of 1853 (folios 15-16) from The Commissioner in Si...
Letter no.165 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Edward Goldsmid, Secretary to the Government, Bombay
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The letter contains a report by Kemball on the opium trade in the Gulf, with information on the key points of export from Persia to Muscat: Bushire, Mohumrah [Khorramshahr] and Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]; importance of Muscat as an entrepôt; estimated quantities by weight of opium exported e...
