‘Persian Gulf. Accommodation on board the Hon’ble Company’s steamer “Nitocris” afforded to the British and Russian Commissioners employed on the delimitation of the Turco-Persian Frontier – Vol: 4’
‘Persian Gulf. Accommodation on board the Hon’ble Company’s steamer “Nitocris” afforded to the British and Russian Commissioners employed on the delimitation of the Turco-Persian Frontier – Vol: 4’
Date:
1849/1850
Description:
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2376/126162. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Acting Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq]; Lieutenant-Colonel Williamson, HM Commissioner for settling the boundaries between Persia [Iran] and Turkey [Ottoman Empire]; and Major General G Tchirikoff, Russian Commissioner. It is the fourth in a series of fifteen items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns the use of the East India Company steamer
Nitocristo convey Williamson and Tchirikoff, with their suites, from Baghdad to Mohumrah [Khorramshahr] to commence their work in settling the Turco-Persian border.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 745 of 1850’, and ‘Coll[ection] No 5’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 52, and terminates at f 64 as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.