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IOR/L/PS/5/450, ff 405-409
- Record Id:
- 041-003677668
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000538832
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100104369427.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100118977838.0x000014
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/5/450, ff 405-409
- Title:
- Aden Affairs
- Scope & Content:
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This item comprises copies of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 73 of 1847, dated 28 August 1847. The enclosure is dated 25 July 1847.
The document is a report from Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Captain in the Indian Navy and Political Agent at Aden, to Arthur Malet, Secretary to the Government, Bombay, covering the following subjects:
- The return of the Honourable Company [HC] schooner of war Tigris from Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] with a letter conveying compliments from the recently arrived Turkish commissioner
- Haines’s instructions to the Senior Naval Officer, (24 July, copy included) for another vessel to proceed to Mussowah [Massawa] and also Mocha, Hodeida and Loheia [Al Luhayyah], in order to obtain commercial and political intelligence on the extent of Turkish ‘interference’ at those places; and, at Mussowah, to investigate a reported meeting between Abyssinian chiefs and a French official in relation to the state of affairs in Northern Abyssinia [Northern Ethiopian Empire].
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000538832
037-000539208
040-000539296
041-003677668 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/5 : Secret Correspondence with India
IOR/L/PS/5/363-509 : Enclosures to Secret Letters from Bombay
IOR/L/PS/5/450 : 'ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY', Vol 88
IOR/L/PS/5/450, ff 405-409 : Aden Affairs - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0005]/036-000538832[0013]/037-000539208[0088]/040-000539296[0017]/041-003677668
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (5 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100118977838.0x000014
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1847
- End Date:
- 1847
- Date Range:
- 28 Aug 1847
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- No. 73 of 1847
- Arrangement:
- There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-3, on folio 406. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)