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IOR/L/PS/5/450, ff 475-485
- Record Id:
- 041-003677675
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000538832
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100104370906.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100118977838.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/5/450, ff 475-485
- Title:
- Aden Affairs
- Scope & Content:
-
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 80 of 1847, dated 11 September 1847. The enclosures are dated 20 August-6 September 1847. There is a note on the abstract stating that the last two enclosures, Bombay intelligence and newspapers, are ‘Missing 30.10.1906’.
The primary documents are letters from Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Captain in the Indian Navy and Political Agent in Aden, to Arthur Malet, Secretary to the Government, Bombay, relating to the return of the Honourable Company [HC] brig of war Euphrates from Mocha, Hoodeida [Al Hudayydah, also spelled Hodeida in this volume], and Mussowah [Massawa], on completion of its political mission, under Commander Lieutenant James Rennie; and the contents of Rennie’s report, dated 17 August 1847 (copy included, ff 481-483), which includes:
- The departure from Hodeida of the Turkish [Ottoman] commissioner with a large amount of German Crowns, his sojourn with Sherriff Hussein [Sharif Hussain], Governor of Mocha (who was then residing in Hodeida), and terms of the latter’s future tribute to the Ottoman Porte
- Intelligence on Turkish activities and policy at these ports
- News of a French agent in Mussowah attempting to obtain 200 Abyssinian labourers to send to Bourbon [Island of Reunion, Indian Ocean?].
- 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
041-003677675 - 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 475-485 : Aden Affairs - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0005]/036-000538832[0013]/037-000539208[0088]/040-000539296[0024]/041-003677675
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (11 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100118977838.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1847
- End Date:
- 1906
- Date Range:
- 11 Sep 1847-30 Oct 1906
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- No. 80 of 1847
- Arrangement:
- There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-7, on folio 476. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure. The last two enclosures are recorded ‘Missing 30.10.1906’.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)