Letter from the Imam of Muscat to Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with Enclosures
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Letter from the Imam of Muscat to Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with Enclosures
- Date:
- 1836/1846
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of two translated copies of a letter from the Imam of Muskat [Muscat], Saeed Seyed bin Sultan [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd, also spelled Syeed Saeed Bin Sooltan in this item] to Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated 1 May 1841, with enclosures.The letter relates to the Imam’s concerns over activities of the French. He states that on his arrival at Zanzibar, he deputed a man to Noosbeh [Nosy Be] and to the Sucklabahs [Sakalava people] ‘to watch the proceedings of the French’. The enclosures consist of copies of the following: a letter from the French Consul who had come to Zanzibar to Khumis bin Oosman; two letters from Smekhoo [Tsiomeko, also spelled Smeekoo in this item], Queen of the Sukalavas, to the Imam of Muscat, and a copy of a treaty between Smeekoo, her Ambassador, and the Imam of Muscat, placing all the Sukalavas as subjects under the authority of the Imam of Muscat. The letters were enclosed in a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 49 of 1841, c 17 June 1841.Physical description: There is no abstract of contents.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Territorial rights
Treaties - Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100108893197.0x000009_ar
81055/vdc_100108893197.0x000009_en
IOR/L/PS/5/395, ff 31-38
IOR/L/PS/5/395, ff 31-38