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IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 494-506
- Record Id:
- 041-004067762
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000538832
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100139946597.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100149251877.0x00000e
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 494-506
- Title:
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Aden and Red Sea Affairs
- Scope & Content:
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This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay, Secret Department, to the Secret Committee, Number 18 of 1850, dated 3 April 1850.
The enclosed papers, dated between 18 February and 30 March 1850, concern affairs in Aden and the Red Sea. They comprise correspondence between Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent, Aden; the Government of Bombay; Captain John Parke Sanders, Senior Naval Officer, Aden; Commodore Stephen Lushington, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy; and the Government of India. Also included are minutes by the Governor of Bombay, Lord Viscount Falkland [Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland].
The papers concern general updates on the state of affairs in Aden, Mocha, Hodeida [Al Hudaydah], and the Abyssinian [East African] coast, and Haines's request for the services of East India Company ships, Constance and Elphinstone for the purposes of delivering packets and protecting British trade.
Enclosure Nos. 10-11, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the Bombay Overland Times and the Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courier dated 3 April 1850, are recorded as missing in a note dated 31 October 1906.
- 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
040-000539309
041-004067762 - 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/5/463 : 'ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY', Vol 101
IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 494-506 : Aden and Red Sea Affairs - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0005]/036-000538832[0013]/037-000539208[0101]/040-000539309[0017]/041-004067762
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (13 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100149251877.0x00000e
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1850
- End Date:
- 1850
- Date Range:
- 3 Apr 1850
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- No. 18 of 1850
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)