Aden and Red Sea Affairs
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Aden and Red Sea Affairs
- Date:
- 1850/1850
- Description:
- Abstract: 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, Constanceand Elphinstonefor 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 Timesand the Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courierdated 3 April 1850, are recorded as missing in a note dated 31 October 1906.Physical description: 1 item (13 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Geographic region:
- Aden
Red Sea - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100149251877.0x00000e_ar
81055/vdc_100149251877.0x00000e_en
IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 494-506
IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 494-506