The Forwarding of a Letter Regarding the Horses Sent by the Imaum of Muscat to Queen Victoria
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- The Forwarding of a Letter Regarding the Horses Sent by the Imaum of Muscat to Queen Victoria
- Date:
- 1840/1840
- Description:
- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 85 of 1840, dated 21 October 1840.The enclosure is dated 14 September 1840. It consists of a letter from Captain Atkins Hamerton, on a mission to Muscat (as East India Company Agent in the Dominions of the Imām of Muscat), to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Lestock Robert Reid. Hamerton writes that at the request of the Imaum [Imām] of Muscat, he is enclosing a letter (not included in this item) to be sent on to Lord Palmerston, HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Hamerton states that the letter concerns the four horses sent by the Imaum to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and that the letter was not sent with the horses due to an oversight by the Imaum’s Secretary.Physical description: 1 item (3 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Horses
Gifts
Āl Bū Sa'īd dynasty, Imam of Muscat and Oman - Geographic region:
- Muscat
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100141978055.0x000002_ar
81055/vdc_100141978055.0x000002_en
IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 6-8
IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 6-8