IOR/R/15/1/148

This file contains copies of official correspondence divided up into three sections as follows:

1) 1855/56 Residency, Persian Gulf, Persia (folios 1b-50):

This section contains copies of correspondence regarding affairs in Persia between Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (and occasionally James Felix Jones, as officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf) and the following correspondents:

• Meerza Hussain Alee Khan, the Governor of Bushire (this correspondence is translated from Farsi);
• George Robinson, Commander of the Persian Gulf Naval Squadron;
• Charles Augustus Murray, British Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia;
• William Taylor Thompson, British Chargé d'Affaires at the Court of Persia;
• Peter Stephen, British Agent at Ispahan [Isfahan], Persia.

2) 1855/56 Residency in the Persian Gulf, Squadron (folios 51-80):

This section contains copies of letters between Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and a number of ship captains in the region including Alexander Foulerton, Commanding Officer of the Sloop Clive and Richard Ethersey, Commanding Officer of the Persian Gulf Naval Squadron.

3) 1855/56 Residency in the Persian Gulf, English Records, General (folios 77-80):

This section contains two letters, one from Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to the Senior Magistrate of Police in Bombay and the other to Kemball from Felix Jones, Officiating Political Agent in Turkish Arabia.