Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2376/126162. The main correspondent is Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is the third in a series of fifteen items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns a request by Lieutenant-Colonel W J Williams, HM Commissioner for settling the boundaries between Persia [Iran] and Turkey [Ottoman Empire], for a vessel to be present at the Shut ul Arab [Shatt al-Arab] for the start of the conference.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 745 of 1850’, and ‘Coll[ection] No 5’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 37, and terminates at f 51 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.
