Aden Affairs
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Aden Affairs
- Date:
- 1847/1906
- Description:
- Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 80 of 1847, dated 11 September 1847. The enclosures are dated 20 August-6 September 1847. There is a note on the abstract stating that the last two enclosures, Bombay intelligence and newspapers, are ‘Missing 30.10.1906’.The primary documents are letters from Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Captain in the Indian Navy and Political Agent in Aden, to Arthur Malet, Secretary to the Government, Bombay, relating to the return of the Honourable Company [HC] brig of war Euphratesfrom Mocha, Hoodeida [Al Hudayydah, also spelled Hodeida in this volume], and Mussowah [Massawa], on completion of its political mission, under Commander Lieutenant James Rennie; and the contents of Rennie’s report, dated 17 August 1847 (copy included, ff 481-483), which includes:The departure from Hodeida of the Turkish [Ottoman] commissioner with a large amount of German Crowns, his sojourn with Sherriff Hussein [Sharif Hussain], Governor of Mocha (who was then residing in Hodeida), and terms of the latter’s future tribute to the Ottoman PorteIntelligence on Turkish activities and policy at these portsNews of a French agent in Mussowah attempting to obtain 200 Abyssinian labourers to send to Bourbon [Island of Reunion, Indian Ocean?].Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-7, on folio 476. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure. The last two enclosures are recorded ‘Missing 30.10.1906’.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Political intelligence
- Geographic region:
- Red Sea
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100118977838.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100118977838.0x000001_en
IOR/L/PS/5/450, ff 475-485
IOR/L/PS/5/450, ff 475-485