‘Persian Gulf. Establishment. Donation to Mr. Edwards for Extra duties – Vol: 18’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Establishment. Donation to Mr. Edwards for Extra duties – Vol: 18’
- Date:
- 1830/1850
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, a political letter from the Government of Bombay, which appears in IOR/F/4/2445/134344. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; William Simson, Bombay Civil Auditor; Major David Wilson, previous Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Robertson, previous Officiating Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is the eighteenth in a series of twenty-one items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns a request by Hennell that the Government of Bombay temporarily increase the salary of James Edwards, Accountant at the British Residency at Bushire [Bushehr], as he has been taking over some of the duties of Lieutenant Arnold Burrows Kemball while the latter is performing the duties of the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq]. The item includes earlier testimonies from previous British Residents about the quality of Edwards’s work.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft N 34 – 1852’, and ‘Collection No 32’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 260, and terminates at f 265, 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:
- Wages
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100108389122.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100108389122.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2445/134361
IOR/F/4/2445/134361