Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant Colonel Henry Robertson, Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf; Hajjee Jassim [Ḥājī Jāsim], British Agent at Bahrein [Bahrain]; and Moollah Hoossein [Mullā Ḥusayn], British Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]. It is the second in a series of six items on the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2005/89510, IOR/F/4/2005/89512, IOR/F/4/2005/89513, IOR/F/4/2005/89514, and IOR/F/4/2006/89515).The item concerns:A projected attack on Bahrein [Bahrain] by Essa bin Tureef [Shaikh ‘Īsá bin Ḥamad bin Ṭarīf Āl Bin ‘Alī al-‘Utbī] and Mahomed bin Khuleefa [Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah]A dispute between Sultan bin Suggur of Russal Khyma [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī of Ra’s al-Khaymah] and Abdoolla bin Rashid of Amulgavine [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Rāshid al-Mu‘allā of Umm al-Qaywayn], and instructions issued by Robertson to Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball about how to proceed on this matterAn improvement in relations between the Residency at Bushire [Bushehr] and the local population and garrison of the town, including a request by Robertson to re-open a gateway in the town wallThe suggestion of Colonel Justin Sheil, Her Majesty’s Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran, that Robertson should send a present to the Prince of Shiraz.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 612/43, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3902, Collection No 11’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 789 and terminates at f 838, 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 volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: This file contains correspondence pertaining to requests for audiences and visits by members of the al-Khalifa family with the Political Resident and Political Agent in Bahrain. Most concern matters of personal finance and state allowances.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 53; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 6-52; these numbers are also written in pencil, but, where circled, are crossed through.
Abstract: This file contains correspondence between the Political Agency, Political Residency and various notable merchants of Bahrain wishing to have audiences and interviews with the Agent or Resident. Most of the letters pertain to arranging calls made by various notables to the Political Agent prior to their departure from Bahrain to pay their respects.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 69; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file contains correspondence relating to visits and audiences requested from and granted by the Political Agent in Bahrain and Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 28; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 4-19; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: Copies of correspondence, minutes and other papers relating to British administration of Aden subsequent to its capture by the British in January 1839, chiefly instructions from the Government of India to Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent in Aden.The papers mainly concern:Arrangements for security and policing in Aden in light of recent attacks and robberies allegedly committed by ‘marauding parties’ of Bedowins [Bedouins], including proposal for an ‘Arab Mounted Police’ and the expediency of utilising Arabs for this purposeStipends or allowances to be paid by the British to certain Arab chiefs in return for the latter guaranteeing to protect the roads and communications into the interior, including limits on the amount to be expended by Haines and the terms and conditions of paymentsReimbursement of Haines’s expenses incurred in paying stipends and entertaining Arab chiefs visiting the ResidencyDeferment of a decision regarding claims by Arab chiefs for loss of tribute previously received from port duties prior to the British capture of AdenProposal to send three captured Turkish brass guns to Queen Victoria in EnglandViews of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Dickinson, Chief Engineer at Bombay [Mumbai], on Captain Robert Foster’s plans for the fortification of Aden and construction of new buildings (ff 355-358)Petitions from the merchants of Aden to the Governor in Council, regarding heavy customs duties levied on goods using the port, considering former British promises to abolish them for five years (ff 360 and 362), including table of duties charged on goods imported and exported by sea and transiting to and from the interior (ff 371-372)Letter from Shiekh Kasim Bin Sueed of Surhub [Shaikh Qasim bin Sa'id al-Sharjabi] to the Governor in Council requesting British assistance in his hostilities against ‘the Turks’ [Ottomans].The principal correspondents are: John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government in India, and Thomas Herbert Maddock, Officiating Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General.There is a note before the papers commence stating: ‘Enclosure in Bombay Secret Letter No. 59, dated 8th May 1839, is missing from this collection’.Physical description: The papers are not in chronological order.