‘Persian Gulf. Annual presents to the Chiefs on the Arabian Coast-’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Annual presents to the Chiefs on the Arabian Coast-’
- Date:
- 1847/1848
- 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 fifty-sixth in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item contains correspondence between Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Government of Bombay on the subject of customary gifts offered to the shaikhs on the Arabian coast of the Gulf for the 1847 season. A list of the gifts (including details of recipients, articles, and costs) is present at folios 602-603. The Government of Bombay comments on the above average expenditure and Hennell responds with his justification.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 345/48, Coll: 2, Vol: 56’, ‘Collection No. 12 of No. 21’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The title page also contains a note that relevant correspondence can be found in Collection No. 4 accompanying despatch from the Government of Bombay, 16 June No. 78 of 1847.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 600, and terminates at f 607, 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:
- Gifts
- Geographic region:
- Persian Gulf
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098005266.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098005266.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2238/112377
IOR/F/4/2238/112377