IOR/R/19/23

This volume contains records of the expenses incurred and payments received by British agents and the Packet Agency at Cairo from 13 January 1838 to 30 September 1859. It includes the dates of the transactions, details of the transactions themselves, and the amounts of money given in Piastres. The expenses and payments include the following transactions:

• The expenses incurred, and payments received by Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Campbell, British Agent and Consul General in Egypt, including his transactions with Hagi Yousouff [Ḥajjī Yūsuf] Sack Maker (ff 4-5); ‘Abd Allah Aburisk [‘Abdullāh Abū Rizq] Groom (ff 5-6); Suliman Hussein Berberi [Sulaymān Ḥusayn Barbarī]; Hassan Abdullah Berberi [Ḥasan ‘Abdullāh Barbarī]; and Alfred S Walne (ff 8-13), 13 January 1838-31 March 1840 (ff 1-13)
• The expenses incurred, and payments received by Captain John Lyons, Royal Navy, Agent in Egypt, including his transactions with Walne (ff 14-45), 1 April 1840-30 June 1848 (ff 13-46)
• The expenses incurred, and payments received by Captain Henry Johnson, British Deputy Agent, and later Agent in Egypt, including Captain Johnson's transactions with the Acting Packet Agent (ff 47-49, and ff 62-64), Walne (ff 50-61, ff 65-77, ff 80-89, ff 92-95, and f 98), and L Müller (ff 78-79, ff 90-91, and ff 96-97), 1 July 1848-30 September 1859 (ff 46-08)
• 'Account attending the sending of Mails to and from Alexandria to Suez and vice versa with relative charges', from January to December 1838 (ff 99-105), 1839 (ff 105-111), 1840 (ff 112-116), 1841 (ff 117-122), 1842 (ff 123-128), and 1843 (ff 124-135); and the 'Expenses on Account of the Conveyance of Mails from Negheeleh [Al Najilah] to Suez, and from Suez to Alexandria, 1844 (ff 136-141), 1845 (ff 142-148), 1846 (ff 148-154), and 1847 (f 155)
• 'Expenses on account of the conveyance of Mails' in 1846 (ff 156-179), 1847 (ff 180-210), 1848 (ff 210-240), 1849 (ff 241-271), 1850 (ff 271-301), 1851 (ff 301-331), and 1852 (ff 331-349); and the 'Expenses of the Honourable East India Company's Packet Agency Cairo, not charged in the Coal Department' in 1853 (ff 350-356); 1854 (ff 356-362); 1855 (ff 362-368); 1856 (ff 368-374); 1857 (ff 374-380); 1858 (ff 381-386); and 1859 (ff 387-393)
• 'Cairo – monthly accounts, 1838-1859': March-December 1838 (ff 394-406); followed by pre-printed and largely completed forms titled: the 'East India Company's Packet Agency Cairo – Return of the Entry and Issue of Coals at the Depot', for the period January-December 1839 (ff 407-418), January-October 1840 (ff 419-429), April-December 1841 (ff 430-438), January-December 1842 (ff 439-450), 1843 (ff 451-462), 1844 (ff 463-474), 1845 (ff 475-486), 1846 (ff 487-499), 1847 (ff 500-512), 1848 (ff 513-526), 1849 (ff 527-539), 1850 (ff 540-552), 1851 (ff 553-565), 1852 (ff 566-578), 1853 (ff 579-590), 1854 (ff 591-602), 1855 (ff 603-615), 1856 (ff 616-627), 1857 (ff 628-640), 1858 (ff 641-652), and January-June 1859 (ff 653-659).