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IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 290-300
- Record Id:
- 041-003726046
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000538832
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113504043.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100129828648.0x00000c
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 290-300
- Title:
- The Arrival of the Comet at Baghdad, and Affairs in the Southern Part of the Baghdad Pashalic
- Scope & Content:
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This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 13 of 1853, dated 24 February 1853. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 15 December 1852.
The enclosure is a letter from the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay. The letter reports the arrival of the East India Company’s steam frigate Comet at Baghdad (also spelled Bagdad in this item) on 6 December 1852, and forwards a letter addressed to Rawlinson from the Commander of the ship and Surveyor in Mesopotamia [Iraq], James Felix Jones, which includes the news of the arrival of the ship and also reports on the state of affairs in the southern part of the Baghdad Pashalic [Pashalik], including at Bussorah [Basra], Mohumrah [Khorramshahr], Hawizeh, and on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. It also discusses: tribal affairs, including the position of Saleh, the Chief of the Montefik [al-Muntafiq tribal confederation]; and the ‘slight foundation’ to the complaints made by an employee of Messrs Hector and Company in September 1852.
- 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
040-000539322
041-003726046 - 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/5/476 : ‘ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY’, Vol 114
IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 290-300 : The Arrival of the Comet at Baghdad, and Affairs in the Southern Part of the Baghdad Pashalic - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0005]/036-000538832[0013]/037-000539208[0114]/040-000539322[0012]/041-003726046
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (10 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100129828648.0x00000c
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1853
- End Date:
- 1853
- Date Range:
- 24 Feb 1853
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- No. 13 of 1853
- Arrangement:
- There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-3, on folios 291-292. The number 3 is repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of the enclosure.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)