‘Persian Gulf. Intelligence of the state of affairs at Tehran – Vol: 41’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Intelligence of the state of affairs at Tehran – Vol: 41’
- Date:
- 1848/1848
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2302/118727. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Alexander Hector, a British merchant; and Mirza Mahmood [Mīrzā Muḥammad], British Agent at Shiraz. It is the forty-first in a series of fifty-one items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns:Intelligence about disorder in Shiraz and speculations about the instigatorsEvents at Tehran immediately following the death of Mahomed Shah [Muḥammad Qājār, Shāh of Persia [Iran]]A dispute between Alexander Hector and the port officials at Bushire [Bushehr] who refused to take charge of 5,000 muskets which he was importingSettlement about the amount payable by Sheik Houssein [Shaikh Ḥusayn] at Bushire due to him having delayed a boat and assaulted one of the ownersConcerns about cossids carrying British messages being seized between Shiraz and Isfahan.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No 3 of No 4’, ‘Coll[ection]: 17’ and ‘Draft no 465 of 49’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 628, and terminates at f 644, 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:
- Postal services
Trade disputes
Civil unrest - Geographic region:
- Shiraz
Tehran - Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098764697.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098764697.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2302/118767
IOR/F/4/2302/118767