Letter No 105 of 1851 from Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to Justin Sheil, HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran
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The letter is reporting that news has been received from Lars [Lār] indicating that Fort Beyda has surrendered to the Royal troops; it is noted that reports are circulating indicating that Mirza Naeem – commander of the Royal troops – bribed Moostufa Kooly Khan of Bastuk to give up the fight. It...
Letter no.41 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Commodore John Patterson Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf
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Hennell's response to Porter's letter of 24 February 1851 (f 33), enclosing a letter for Sheikh Sultan ben Suggur [Sultan bin Saqr] of the Joasmee [Al Qawasim] tribe on the Trucial Coast, requesting that he provide Porter with the use of a boat and pilot for his operations on the Qatar coast. Hen...
Letter no.346 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Major Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty's Consul and Agent in the dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat
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The letter is a report of news sent by the British agent at Sharjah, Hajee Jacoob, who has discovered a quantity of indigo, presumed plundered from the wrecked British merchant ship Centaur. Kemball writes that, as the packet is closing, he encloses Jacoob's original letter in Arabic, instead of ...
Letter no.274 of 1854 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government, Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is an acknowledgement of Kemball's previous letter (folios 394-95), relating to the importation of seven slaves into a port near Bushire. Malet writes that, unless the men implicated in the importation are British subjects, they are not liable to British laws. Given that they appear to...
Letter no.445 of 1855 from Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter relates to the gift of a gold watch and diamond ring to Meerza Mahmood Khan, the Persian Slave Trade Commissioner, in appreciation of his good work. Appended to Jones’s letter is the translation of a letter from Khan to Jones, dated 14 December 1855, which is an expression of thanks f...
Letter no.164 of 1856 from Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter is a report of an act of piracy and an incident of alleged murder, committed by subjects of the Shaikh of Bahrain against Banyan traders, who are British subjects, in Bahrain. Jones reports that the Shaikh of Bahrain [Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah] has agreed to pay reparations for...
Copy of letter no.3551 of 1860 from Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to A W Lodwick, Civil Auditor
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The letter is related to the payment of arrears of salary to the heirs of the late Agent at Brymee [Al Buraymī], following an initial enquiry by the Resident (folio 33), and copied to the Resident for reference.
This file contains letters and enclosures inwards from William Newnham, Secretary to the Governor of Bombay, to Captain Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire between 1826 and 1827. There are letters relating to Shaikh ‘Abd al-Rasūl Khān, the former Governor o...
This file contains letters from the Government of Bombay to the Residency in the Persian Gulf at Bushire. Correspondents include Charles Norris, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, and William Henry Wathen, Secretary to the Government of Bombay. The recipients are David Anderson Blane, R...
This file contains correspondence to/from three British Residents at Bushire, Captain James Felix Jones, Captain Herbert Frederick Disbrowe and Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly. A number of topics are discussed in the file, most prominent among them are the following: Relations between Britain a...
