‘Persian Gulf. Non-interference in cases where money has been lent by British subjects in Persia to Persian subjects-’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Non-interference in cases where money has been lent by British subjects in Persia to Persian subjects-’
- Date:
- 1847/1847
- Description:
- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 31 January 1848. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details of further enclosures. The item is the forty-eighth in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item relates to a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, HM Minister at the Court of Persia [Iran], to Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 18 August 1847. Sheil advises Hennell that Her Majesty’s Government has confirmed that they should not interfere in cases where British subjects have loaned money to Persian subjects in Persia. Hennell passes this information on to the Government of Bombay and cites it as relevant to the recent case of Messrs Mills and Co.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 345/48, Col: 2, Vol: 48’, ‘Collection No. 4 of No. 21’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 547, and terminates at f 550, 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.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Loans
- Geographic region:
- Persia
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098005125.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098005125.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2238/112369
IOR/F/4/2238/112369