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IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 6-8
- Record Id:
- 041-004060794
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000538832
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100135008337.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100141978055.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 6-8
- Title:
- The Forwarding of a Letter Regarding the Horses Sent by the Imaum of Muscat to Queen Victoria
- 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 Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 85 of 1840, dated 21 October 1840.
The enclosure is dated 14 September 1840. It consists of a letter from Captain Atkins Hamerton, on a mission to Muscat (as East India Company Agent in the Dominions of the Imām of Muscat), to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Lestock Robert Reid. Hamerton writes that at the request of the Imaum [Imām] of Muscat, he is enclosing a letter (not included in this item) to be sent on to Lord Palmerston, HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Hamerton states that the letter concerns the four horses sent by the Imaum to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and that the letter was not sent with the horses due to an oversight by the Imaum’s Secretary.
- 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
040-000539234
041-004060794 - 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/5/388 : ‘ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY’, Vol 26
IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 6-8 : The Forwarding of a Letter Regarding the Horses Sent by the Imaum of Muscat to Queen Victoria - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0005]/036-000538832[0013]/037-000539208[0026]/040-000539234[0002]/041-004060794
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (3 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100141978055.0x000002
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1840
- End Date:
- 1840
- Date Range:
- 21 Oct 1840
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- No. 85 of 1840
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)