Abstract: These folios consist of a summary of a letter from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray, sent from his camp near Teheran [Tehran] (5 August 1857, Number 70), regarding correspondence with the Sedr Ajeem as to the fulfilment of the conditions of the Treaty between Persia and Great Britain.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Correspondence file containing a narrative of the events of the War with Persia (1856-1857) from the perspective of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain (James) Felix Jones, and his assistant Lieutenant Herbert Frederick Disbrowe.Also contained within the file are copies of correspondence between Captain Jones; Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Her British Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia; and Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay regarding an escalation of incidents on the Persian Coast and at sea during 1860 and 1861.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence in use consists of a pencil number enclosed in a circle, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the last folio of writing, on number 125.Pagination: There is also a former pagination sequence which consists of numbers written in pencil, in the top right corners of the rectos and in the top left corners of the versos. It begins on the first page of writing, on number 5, and ends about halfway through the file, on number 121.
Abstract: A copy of the Treaty of Paris (1857) concluded between Britain and Persia [Iran] following the Anglo-Persian War (1856-57). The treaty is signed by Earl Cowley, British Ambassador to France, and Ferookh Khan Ameen Oolmoolk [Farrukh Khān Ghaffārī Kāshānī], Persian Plenipotentiary, and is dated Paris, 4 March 1857.This document contains parallel English and Farsi versions of the text of the treaty.Also included in the volume are:The English and Farsi text of an agreement on ceremonial proceedings for the reestablishment of diplomatic relations, signed by Earl Cowley and Ferookh Khan and dated Paris, 4 March 1857An English translation of a letter from the Shah of Persia [Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh Qājār] to the Sedr Azim [Mīrzā Āghā Khān Nūrī Iʿtimād al-Dawlah, Prime Minister of Persia] dated December 1955, expressing anger at a letter from the English Minister (Sir Charles Murray, British Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Shah of Persia) and ordering the breaking off of relations with Britain until an apology is receivedOne Farsi and three English versions of a document investing Ferookh Khan with the powers of Plenipotentiary of the Shah in negotiations with Britain, dated Showal [Shawwal] 1272/June 1856, with a note on the different English versions by the translator, Sir Justin Sheil, dated 8 March 1857The English and Farsi text of a document certifying the exchange of ratifications of the treaty, dated Baghdad, 2 May 1857.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 34; 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 volume is a collection of correspondence about the Persian Coast, selected by Jerome A Saldanha and printed in Simla in 1906.The volume is divided into twelve chapters:Internal Affairs, with list of officials and events (folios 7-16);Claims of the Imam of Maskat [Muscat] to the islands of Kishm, Angaum and Ormuz and the town of Bandar Abbas and its dependencies (folios 17-30);Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57. British Expedition to the Persian Gulf and Karun River (folios 31-34);Various attempts made to establish Persian influence in the Persian Gulf, 1887-1905 (folios 35-39);Residency appointments, establishments, and guards and buildings on the Persian Coast and Islands (folios 40-49);British extra-territorial jurisdiction on the Persian Coast and Islands (folios 50-62);Questions of Status (folios 63-69);Claims of British subjects and protegés against the Persian Government and Officials and Persian subjects (folios 70-80);Certain miscellaneous affairs with regard to British relations with Persia (folios 81-87);Infringement of British Commercial Rights (folios 88-94);Introduction of Belgian Customs Administration and new Tariff, 1900-1905 (folios 95-100);Persian interference with the British Postal arrangements (folios 101-103).Physical description: Foliation: the sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: The volume comprises correspondence, memoranda and other papers relating to the Anglo-Persian War (1856-57), and events following the Armistice signed in Paris, 4 March 1857, notably intelligence, military, administrative, diplomatic and financial matters. A large proportion of the letters are originals, but the volume also includes copy letters and copy Persian letters.There is no overall index; however, there are five internal ‘indexes’, or contents lists, which cover the majority of the volume. The titles of groups of papers are transcribed directly from the indexes, in single inverted commas.The papers are bound as follows:Folio 9: ‘Intelligence index’ comprising a list of items numbered 1-2Folios 10-45 (including title page for index item No. 1): ‘Intelligence received from Major H Ballard’, Intelligence Department, 25 February 1856-28 June 1857. Includes ink and watercolour plan of Persian positions near the ‘Haft Moolla Pass’ (folio 15) and Memorandum of Intelligence from Captain Lewis Pelly, Intelligence Department, June 1857 (folios 39-42)Folios 46-133 (including title page for index item No. 2): ‘General Intelligence’. Notably:Memorandum by Major John Hill, Commanding Engineer, Persian Field Force, to Assistant Quartermaster-General, Persian Field Force, Camp Bushire, 8 January 1857, containing estimate of force required for the expedition against Shuster [Shushtar] on the Karoon [Karun] River (folios 47-51)Intelligence received and forwarded to Brigadier-General John Jacob, Commander of the Persian Expeditionary Field Force in Bushire, by Captain Felix Jones, Political Agent and Resident in the Persian Gulf, and correspondence between Jones and Jacob, including translated intelligence from local chiefs, Mahomed Hassan Khan [Muhammad Husayn Khan?], British Agent in Shiraz [also spelt Sheeraz in the volume], and Meerza Hassan Ali Khan [Mirza Hasan ‘Ali Khan], British Agent at Shiraz now at Bushire, March-August 1857, and purport of extract from
Tehran Gazette, 12 March 1857 (folios 52-73, 95-97, 116-117, 122, 126-133)Cutting from
The Sindian Extra, 20 May 1857, on the ‘horrible massacre [of the English] at Delhi’ (folio 74)Letters from J Scott in Kurachee [Karachi], to Jacob, 23 May and 7 June 1857, on loyalty of the troops at Moultan [Multan], calm situation in the Punjab and Scott’s general comments on the 'mutiny' in India (folios 75, 114-115)Intelligence from J Gibb in Kurachee, to Jacob, 22 May-7 June 1857, notably on the 'mutiny' at Merrut [Meerut] and Delhi and reporting on troops and native population in Lahore (folios 76-77, 102-105, 112-113)Manuscript copy of telegraphic message from Agra for Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram, Commander-in-Chief, Persian Expeditionary Force: ‘Lady Outram and her son are quite safe. They were not at Delhi’ [May 1857] (folio 78)Three intelligence reports, two translated by James McAdam Hyslop, Assistant Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, containing news on the state of Persia, February and March 1857, and copy letter from Stratford de Redcliffe, British Ambassador at Constantinople, to Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 30 March 1857. All papers forwarded for the attention of Outram (folios 79-91)Letters from Commander James Rennie, Senior Naval Officer, Commanding Persian Gulf Squadron, to Jacob, June-July 1857, mostly forwarding intelligence from Lieutenant James Tronson, Senior Naval Officer at Mahumura [Mohammerah, now Khorramshahr], commanding the
Falkland(folios 92-94, 98-99, 119-120, 123-125)Extract of letter from Lord Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay, to Henry Bartle Frere, Commissioner of Sinde [Sindh], 30 May 1857, forwarding instructions for the recall of Outram and Jacob and a large part of the force at Bushire, to India (folios 100-101)Letter from Commander D W Macleod in Lahore, to Commissioner in Sind [Sindh], 15 May 1857, reporting, for the Court of Directors of the East India Company, on the state of affairs in India following the outbreak of the 'mutiny' (folios 106-109)Letter from H Ebden to Colonel Sir R Shakespear, 31 May 1857, on the spread of the 'mutiny' (folios 110-111)Manuscript copy of telegraphic message from 'The Resident' (at Bushire) to Jacob, stating that the agent at Shiraz is permitted to proceed and resume his post, 28 June 1857 (folio 118)Letter from [W?] Gardiner, Commanding the
Clifton, notifying Jacob of the transport ship’s arrival at Kurachee, 2 July 1857 (folio 121) Folios 134-135: ‘Index Miscellaneous’ comprising a list of items numbered 1-18, as follows:Folios 136-138 (including title page for index item No. 1): ‘Correspondence touching the progress of the war in Persia, etc.’ Letter from Thomas A Collier, Bushire, to Jacob, 24 December 1856Folios 139-141 (including title page for index item No. 2): ‘Trial experiment of the “Jacob Rifle”’, Letter from Charles Hay to Jacob, 14 November 1856Folios 142-203 (including title page for index item No. 3): ‘Applications for appointments under Brigadier-General John Jacob [to the Persian Field Force], recommendatory letters for, etc.’ Authors based in various locations, notably Bombay, Kurachee and London, December 1856-February 1857 (in this order): Henry Munro; J Outram; Lieutenant G S Morris; Lieutenant C M Ducat; Major Edward Green; G Nicholetts; Lieutenant W A Battine, Bengal Army; Captain [G?] E Ashburner; Captain James Young, 4th Regiment Bengal North India; E King; J Thatcher; H Young; Hugh Elliott, [T H Rantely?]; W G Mainwaring; R H Irvine; Captain Stuart Beatson, First Regiment [Light?] Cavalry; Lieutenant W R Alexander; George Montgomery; Lieutenant Quintin Battye, 56th Regiment Bengal Infantry; J W [Reviler?]; W W Davidson; [G Durrill?]; [C?] Stewart; W F Johnson; J Rennie; Hastings Fraser, 4th Cavalry; C Constable; Ensign John G Watts; Colonel P MelvillFolios 204-209 (including title page for index item No. 4): ‘Correspondence of congratulation’, from J Scott to Jacob, 14 January 1857; P H Le Geyt to Outram, 4 January 1857; and J Stirling to Jacob, 30 April 1857 (thanks for commendation of his regiment)Folios 210-244 (including title page for index item No. 5): ‘Correspondence relative to supply of provisions, tonnage and capacity of shipping, transports, munitions of war, etc.’ Correspondents mainly Rennie, Durrill, [Reviler?], W T Johnson and Captain Lewis Pelly, Political Secretary and Persian Interpreter, 25 January to 24 July 1857Folios 245-247 (including title page for index item No. 6): ‘Regarding the appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel Jacob with the rank of Brigadier-General Persian Expeditionary Field Force’, 12 January 1857. Copy letter and General Orders, forwarded by R E H Birch, Secretary to the Governor of India, Military DepartmentFolios 248-256 (including title page for index item No. 7): ‘Correspondence regarding the state of the troops in Persia and other Bazar and Police arrangements’ [in Bushire]. Between Lord Elphinstone, Jacob, Jones and Pelly, 1 April-1 August 1857. Includes Persian letter from Sultan Mahomed Najjaff Meerza [Sultan Muhammad Najaf Mirza Hindi], Jahanabad [Jehanabad], to Jacob (folio 255) with Jacob’s replyPapers described in the index as numbers 8-17 are not bound in this volumeFolios 257-259: Title pages only to index items No. 16 ‘Relative to the employment of individuals in the Quartermaster and Adjutant Generals Department’, and No. 17 ‘Regarding Prisoners’Folios 259-297 (including title page for index item No. 18): ‘Miscellaneous Correspondence’. Between Jacob, Henry Scott, Walker, Macdonald, Colonel J S Ramsay and Pelly, 1 December 1856-26 December 1857. Includes news from Pelly on Mohammura [Mohammerah, i.e. Khorramshahr], Sir James Outram and views on the Peace Treaty (folios 284-297), and extracts from the
Bombay Government Gazette, 15 and 29 January and 30 June 1857 (folios 268-271)Folio 298: Map of a section of Abyssinia [Ethiopia] (no indication why this map has been bound in this volume apart from separating two indexes)Folios 299-300: ‘Index of Compilation’ comprising a list of items numbered 1-13Folios 301-359 (including title page for index item No. 1): ‘Correspondence regarding employment of General Jacob in Persia. Observations on the state of the troops and the coast of Persia, of the appointment of General Sir J Outram, political views on the nature of Britain’s relations with Persia and Russia’. Documents dated 18 November 1856-25 January 1857, chiefly Outram’s letters to Robert Vernon Smith MP, Sir George Clerk, Colonel Sykes, J H Edmonstone, Secretary to the Governor of India, Foreign Department, Lord Dalhousie and Jacob; Malcolm Green’s letters to Jacob; and copy of a telegraphic message from the Governor-General to Outram regarding JacobFolios 360-410 (including title page for index item No. 2): ‘Correspondence regarding the appointment of different officers, the distribution of the Brigades, etc., their several requirements in the event of their occupying named localities towards the furtherance of schemes determined on’. Documents dated 28 December 1856-28 December 1858, chiefly correspondence between Outram and Jacob, letters from Malcolm Green and from Lord Elphinstone, to Jacob, and a 'Plan of Operations' (in Persia) by Outram (folios 365-367)Folios 411-451 (including title page for index item No. 3): ‘Regarding the probable demands for munitions of war. Provisions and other necessaries, etc., required by the Troops in Persia’. Documents dated 18 March-12 May 1857, chiefly letters to Jacob from Outram, A M Boileau, Brevet Major Commanding ‘B’ Company of Madras Sappers and Miners, Rennie and JonesFolios 452-503 (including title page for index item No. 4): ‘Correspondence regarding the Expedition against Mohamreh [Mohammerah, i.e. Khorramshahr] and its capture, and of arrangements for raising and organising “Arab Levies” and other proposed arrangements regarding the dispersal of the troops subsequent to the above action’. Documents dated 13 March-9 May 1857, chiefly letters to Jacob from Outram (written from Mohammerah) and Colonel Edward Lugard, Chief of StaffFolio 504-509 (including title page for index item No. 5): ‘Information of movements of the Expeditionary detachment to Ahwaz [Ahvaz] and other correspondence following the fall of Mohamreh and the action at Ahwaz’. Letters from Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Political Agent in Ismailiyah [Ismailia], to Outram, and from Outram to the Earl of Clarendon, 30 March-5 April 1857 Folio 510 (title page for index item No. 6): ‘Reflections on the policy of the action at Mohamreh which was originally intended to facilitate the progress of the British forces into the interior of Persia’ (no papers present)(Title page and papers for index item No. 7 not present)Folios 511-518 (including title page for index item No. 8): ‘Regarding proposed modifications and other important arrangements for the permanent defence of the frontiers of Sind’. Two documents, both addressed to ‘My Lord’, authors not identifiedFolios 519-525 (including title page for index item No. 9): ‘General correspondence from Lord Elphinstone’. Letters to Outram, notably mentioning coals for English steam ships, cholera between Madras and Bangalore, and rifle ammunition, 3 and 4 April 1857Folios 526-531 (including title page for index item No. 10): ‘Refutation of assertions regarding the “panic” supposed to have occurred subsequent to the action at Burazgoon [Borazjan]’. Letter from Outram to Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Somerset, Commander-in-Chief, Bombay Army, 11 April 1857, including extracts from intelligence reports dated 18 and 25 February 1857 regarding enemy casualtiesAlso after index item No. 10 (not covered by the index):Folios 532-535: copy of letter of congratulation on Persian victories from Vernon Smith to Outram, with forwarding letter by Hyslop, Political Agent, Bagdad [Baghdad], April 1857Folios 536-538 (including title page for index item No. 11): ‘Correspondence of congratulation, offer of presents, to the Native Troops by the Nawab of Oude from Bagdad’. Summary translation of undated letter from the Nawab Ikbal-ood-Dowlek to Captain Kemball, congratulating the British Indian troops in action at Bushire and BorazgoonFolios 539-558 (including title page for index item No. 12): 'Correspondence regarding the Sirkisheekchee [Sarkisheekchee] Bashee, etc’, (Mirza Mahomed Khan, Persian Commander-in-Chief and Plenipotentiary). Chiefly letters from Outram to Jacob, 12 April-15 June 1857 Folios 559-597 (including title page for index item No. 13): ‘Relative to the state of affairs in India and the measures which it would be advisable to adopt for the maintenance of British influence in the Bombay Presidency, etc.’ Chiefly letters from Lugard, Outram and Vernon Smith to Jacob; Lugard to Outram; and Outram to the Governor-General of India, the Earl of Clarendon and Vernon Smith, 28 June-15 July 1857Folios 598-689 (including title page for index item No. 2): ‘Relating to the Deputation of Ahmed Beg from Persian Camp and further correspondence regarding Meerza Agha’ (Persian Secretary to Charles A Murray, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of Persia, at Bagdad). Chiefly original and copy letters, including Persian letters from Meerza Agha [Mirza Agha] (folios 602, 614, 626), relating to his dismissal by Jacob who accuses the former of unprecedented ‘insolence’ contained in a letter to Captain Felix Jones regarding the Deputation of Ahmed Beg. Correspondence is largely between Jacob, Outram, Jones, Murray and Meerza Agha. Murray, who strongly defends Meerza Agha, an employee of the British for over eighteen years, believes there is a campaign to smear his secretary’s character. Murray also dismisses Mahomed Hassan Khan, the Agent at Shiraz, who accuses Meerza Agha of threatening him. Covering dates c 25 April-31 August 1857Folios 690-691: ‘Index Sirkasheekchee Bashee’, comprising a list of items numbered 1-11Folios 692-733 (including title page for index item No. 1): 'Regarding the Treaty Armistice etc., Convention proposed to be entered into – line demarcation proposed and explained etc.' Documents dated c 22 April-7 May 1857, chiefly correspondence between Outram, Meerza Mahomed Khan, Sarkisheekchee Bashee, Persian Commander-in-Chief and Plenipotentiary [Mirza Muhammad Khan Davallu, Kishikchi Bashi], and Jacob, regarding news of the armistice reached between Britain and Persia in Paris, 4 March 1857, and terms of the truce concluded between Outram and Meerza Mahomed Khan (to extend to 4 June 1857). Includes original, copy, Persian (folios 695-697, 717-723 and 729-731) and translated letters from all correspondentsFolio 734: Note stating items ‘No. 2 and 3 transferred to Separate Compilations. No. 2 Regarding Meerza Agha [see folios 598-689]. No. 3 Regarding the Persian spy or Engineer officer [see IOR/H/550]’Folios 735-736 (including title page for index item No. 4): ‘Regarding the procuring of corn provisions, etc.’ Letter from Jones to Jacob, 13 May 1857Folios 737-741 (including title page for index item No. 5): ‘Correspondence regarding Nawab Mahomed Ali Khan’. Letter from Jones to Jacob, copy letters in Persian from Jones and from Shuja ul Mulk [also spelt Shooja ool Moolk], April 1857Folios 742-743 (title page for index item No. 6): ‘Correspondence from and with the Khan of Khelat [Kalat]’. Letter from Jones to Jacob, 5 June 1857(Index item No. 7 is filed out of order, on folios 775-814)Folios 743-746 (including title page for index item No. 8): ‘Regarding the return of Mohamed Hussan Khan [Shiraz Agent] to Shiraz’. Letter from Jones to giving instructions to the former, 29 June 1857Folios 747-748 (including title page for index item No. 9): ‘Regarding permission to persons of British camp to purchase horses from Persian camp at Borazjoon [Borazjan]’. Request from Jacob to the representative commanding the Persian forces, 8 July 1857Folios 749-752 (including title page for index item No. 10): ‘Request for restoration of certain baggage animals captured in the action at Borazjoon.’ Correspondence between Jones, Jacob and Mihr Ali Khan, Shooja ool Moolk, 5-9 July 1857Folios 753-755 (including title page for index item No. 11): ‘Regarding the escape of certain persons who attempted to murder a woman on purpose to rob her.’ Letter from Jones to Meerza Mohammed Khan, Sirkisheekchee Bashee, with his reply, 10 and 17 July 1857(Folios 756-774 do not appear to be covered by the index)Folios 756-774: Correspondence and papers relating to general matters in Bushire. Documents dated 23 June-22 August 1857, including intelligence from Mahomed Hassan Khan, Shiraz Agent, his letters to Jones, August 1857, and notice of termination of his employment and the temporary appointment of Hajee Mahomed Khuleel [Ḥāji Muḥammad Khalīl]; correspondence of Jones and Jacob with Mihr Ali Khan, Shooja ool Moolk; Meerza Mahomed Alee Khan [Mirza Muhammed Ali Khan], Nawabi Hindee [Hindi]; and Sheikh Noshin Khan, Sirhauz of the First Order [Shaikh Nushin Khan, Sarbaz (soldier) of the First Order], Persian Force, notably regarding garrisoning of Bushire by different Persian regiment and permission for conclusion of commercial transactions with the locals by soldiers of previous Persian regiment. Persian letter from Alee Khan to Jacob (folio 766)Folios 775-814 (including title page for index item No. 7): ‘Regarding the deputation of Haji Sheikh Noshin Khan, Sirhauz of the First Order, from Persian Camp and of Brigadier Trevelyan, Commandant of the Artillery, from British Camp, and other proceedings touching the mission to the Persian Camp’, to re-establish friendly relations following the transfer of supreme power at Bushire from Outram to Jacob. Correspondence, dated 15 June-10 July 1857, chiefly between Jacob, Jones and Meerza Mahomed Khan, including Persian letters (folios 777-779, 793, 805-806 and 810) and translationsFolio 815: ‘Index’ comprising a list of items numbered 1-3. No. 2 and 3 are filed before No. 1. They are all preceded by the correspondence on folios 816-832Folios 816-832: Mainly formal correspondence, dated 20 July-28 August 1857, regarding dispersal of treasury no longer needed at Bushire, including shipment of ten lacs of rupees on the steamer
Chusanfrom Bushire to Kurachee (for Bombay), a portion to Sinde [Sindh] and one lac to the Baghdad treasury. Correspondence is between Jacob; H L Anderson, Secretary to the Government, Bombay; E E Elliot, Accountant General; B E Frere, Commissioner in Scinde [Sindh]; Captain Annesley, Paymaster, Persian Field Force, Bushire; Jones; and PellyFolios 833-841 (including title page for index item No. 2): ‘Miscellaneous demi official correspondence’. Letters from Jones to Jacob on various matters in Bushire, including ill-treatment of animals that went to the Persia Camp and attempted robbery of a “Bagdad lady of easy virtue”, 9-13 July 1857Folios 842-849 (including title page for index item No. 3): ‘Miscellaneous correspondence regarding the
Pioneerand
Feroze.’ Concerning delay in delivery of Kurachee mails on the
Pioneerand allocation of
Ferozeto go to Bombay, 11 July-2 AugustFolios 850-886 (including title page for index item No. 1): ‘Audits on abstracts by the Paymaster Persian Field Force.’ Correspondence relating to recouping salary allowances erroneously paid to Jacob during the Persian Campaign, chiefly correspondence between Jacob; Annesley; Major H J Barr, late Field Paymaster, Persian Expeditionary Force; the Military Department in Bombay; and Colonel Melvill, Secretary to the Government, c June 1857-April 1858Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 889; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: The original pagination sequence dating from the 1920s is also present in parallel; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. This sequence correlates to the description found in Samuel Charles Hill's
Catalogue of the Home Miscellaneous Series of the India Office Records(London: HMSO, for the India Office, 1927).
Abstract: The volume contains correspondence on various topics connected to the Persian Expeditionary Force sent to Bushire during the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57. The correspondents include: Major-General Foster Stalker, Commander of the Persian Expeditionary Force; Rear Admiral Henry Leeke, Commander in Chief of the Indian Navy; Henry Lacon Anderson (later Alexander Kinloch Forbes), Secretary to Government at Bombay; Felix Jones, Political Resident at Bushire and Political Agent to the Persian Expeditionary Force; Lieutenant Herbert Frederick Disbrowe; Unnamed sheikhs of Rudhillah [Dehrūd ‘Ulya], Bender Reek [Bandar Rīg], Gunawa Huidyaw [Ganāveh], and Deylum [Deylam]; Commodore Richard Ethersey, Commanding Persian Gulf Squadron; George Frederick Edmonstone, Secretary to the Government of India; Brigadier John Jacob, Commander of the British Forces at Bushire; W F Marriott, Acting Military Secretary to Government of Bombay; Major Curtis, Director of Land Transport Corps at Baghdad; Captain Bowen, First Assistant Director of Land Transport Corps; Horfield Army Barracks at Bristol; Major Barr, Paymaster of the Persian Expeditionary Force; R L Taylor, Political Secretary to the Camp at Mohammerah [Korramshahr]; R L Brunton, Deputy Superintendent of Electric Telegraph; Captain MacLeod, Prize Agent to the Persian Expeditionary Force; and Commander James Rennie, Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf Squadron.The volume is divided into sections, each covering a separate topic, as follows:I. 10 - 'Assistant Resident's deputation to chiefs of ports north of Bushire; secret compacts and correspondence that grew out of them'. Disbrowe's mission to ports north of Bushire to procure the sheikhs' cooperation during the war with Persia, mainly in the form of helping to supply the armed forces. There follows a discussion over whether to destroy the written agreements obtained from the sheikhs by Disbrowe to avoid becoming 'politically encumbent'. Folios 12a-16b are Disbrowe's report on his mission.I. 11 - 'Neutral attitude of Persian tribes around Bushire; their fears of threats thrown out against them; anxiety felt by more ignorant population in Bushire and its immediate neighbourhood on account of the threatened approach of the Persian forces under the Prince of Sheeraz [Shiraz]; grain, forage, and draft cattle scarce; prohibition occasionally placed on exportation of articles of consumption - subsequent removal of all restrictions on ordinary trade of every description'. Discussion of trade restrictions imposed by Jones to relieve the poor during a time of shortage and their eventual lifting at the orders of Bombay.I. 12 - 'Respecting Commodore Ethersey's residing on shore for convenience of the public service'. Relating to Ethersey's move from ship to shore for ease of communication.I. 13 - 'Batta granted to Residency establishment and extra table allowance to Resident; Donation batta; Resident's memorial'. Discussion about whether employees of the Bushire Residency should receive the Persian Medal and batta (extra subsistence pay for soldiers on campaign).I. 14 - 'Correspondence with Land Transport Corps Department'. Mainly regarding the pay and discharge of a group of Kurdish muleteers.I. 15 - 'Respecting Electric Telegraph Communication between Shipping, Town, and Camp'. The proposal and implementation of Major Barr's plan to install a telegraph cable from anchorage to Residency and camp.I. 16 - 'Arrival at Bushire of Persian Consul from Bombay, his departure to Busreh [Basra]'. Covers the successful efforts to move the Consul (arriving by sea) onto Basra without landing at Bushire.I. 17 - 'Correspondence with Prize-Committee'. Discussion, following the capture of lime, of whether it was private (as Jones maintains) or state property (as the Prize Committee believe), the latter only being legitimate spoils of war.Physical description: Foliation: the sequence is written in pencil in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the first folio of writing, on number 1, and ends on the last folio of writing, on number 198. There are the following irregularities: ff 12AB; ff 15A-B; ff 16A-B; ff 29A-B; ff 59A-B; ff 65-69 are all present but are out of sequence; ff 79A-B; ff 113A-B; ff 145A-C; ff 154A-B; ff 167A-C; ff 171A-B; no ff 173-177.
Abstract: This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 8 dated 16 January 1857. The enclosures are dated 9-16 January 1857.The papers comprise the following:A summary by the Secretary to Government in the Military Department, Bombay, regarding arrangements for detaching reinforcements to the Persian Expedition, keeping open communications, and replacing troops in the Bombay Presidency by transfers from Bengal and Madras [Chennai]General Orders to the Military Department, by the Governor in Council, Bombay, regarding the assembling of a second Division of the Expeditionary Force for service in Persia [Iran], including a list of the following: Field Force commanders; the personal staff of Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram; Head-Quarters Staff; First Division staff and Brigade Staff; and Second Division and Brigade Staff (ff 124-125)A letter to the Governor and President in Council from Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob, Acting Commissioner in Sind [Sindh], remonstrating against the proposed removal of one regiment of the Sind Irregular Horse serving on the Frontier of Upper Sind for service in Persia.Physical description: 1 item (15 folios)
Abstract: This item comprises a despatch (undated but probably 16 January 1857) containing three copies of the
Bombay Government Gazette, Extraordinary Issue, published 15 January 1857, announcing the ‘unresisted’ occupation of Karrack [Kharg Island, also known as Khark] on 4 December and the surrender of Bushire [Bushehr] on 10 December ‘after an ineffectual opposition’, and praising the conduct of the military and naval forces and their commanders.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 22 dated 2 February 1857. The enclosures are dated 12-29 January 1857.The papers comprise:A letter from the Adjutant-General of the Army, to the Secretary to the Government, Bombay, regarding the capitulation of Bushire [Bushehr], and conveying approbation for: the conduct of the campaign and particular senior officers; the co-operation between the military and naval forces; and the gallantry and endurance of officers and soldiers, including the ‘Hindoo’ [Hindu] soldiersThe Second Supplement to the
Bombay Government Gazette, published 29 January 1857, adding the names of officers which were omitted from the first list of commendations for distinguished serviceTwo Resolutions of the Board: commending Major-General Foster Stalker, Commanding the Persian Expeditionary Force, in operations leading to the surrender of Bushire, and all the officers and men serving in the Persian Field force; and regarding the issue of instructions to Richard Ethersey, Commander of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf, for the protection of Bassadore [Basaidu, Qeshm Island] as both a coaling and communications stationTwo letters from the Secretary to the Government of India to the Secretary to Government, Bombay, regarding: the disposal of guns captured from the Persians [Iranians]; the importance of protecting Bassadore; and the appointment of Commander James Felix Jones, Political Agent with the Forces, as Civil Commissioner in the town of Bushire.Physical description: 1 item (11 folios)
Abstract: This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 3 dated 2 January 1857. The enclosures are dated 24-31 December 1856.The papers comprise the following:A copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Government, Bombay, to Major-General Foster Stalker, Commanding the Field Force in Persia [Iran], forwarding the Secret Committee’s letter announcing the appointment of Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram to the command of troops engaged in hostilities against the Government of Persia, and instructing Stalker to implement measures for obtaining supplies and transports both for Outram’s reinforcements and his own forces at Bushire [Bushehr]Minutes of the Governor and President in Council, Bombay, concurred in by the Board, relating to the preparation of reinforcements (Outram’s Division) for the forces in the Persian Gulf, required due to the extended range of operations which included the planned occupation of Shuster [Shushtar] and Mohamurah [Khorramshahr, also spelled Mohumra in this item] as well as Bushire and Karrack [Kharg island, also known as Khark]. The capability of the Bombay Presidency to supply the majority of the reinforcements and the potential requirement of a regiment of Sind Irregular Horse are also discussed.Physical description: 1 item (10 folios)
Abstract: This item comprises one enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 4 dated 2 January 1857. The enclosure is dated 30 December 1856.The enclosure comprises a summary, by a Secretary in the Military Department, Bombay, of the measures adopted for the immediate despatch of reinforcements in Persia [Iran], including a table of the ‘Probable Return of Officers, Troops, Followers, Horses and Bullocks proceeding on Field Service to Persia’, compiled by the Quarter-Master General’s Office, Bombay, 30 December 1856 (f 60).Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: This item comprises one enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 19 dated 2 February 1857. The enclosure is dated 2 February 1857 and comprises the following two documents issued by the Secretary to Government of Bombay in the Military and Maritime Department:A summary, dated 2 February 1857, relative to the measures adopted for the organisation and despatch of a reserve force to join the expedition against Persia [Iran], detailing armaments, transport animals, troop units and personnel, vessels (including steam ships), and embarkation arrangementsA ‘List of the Ships engaged by Government as Transports for the Persian Expedition’, dated 22 January 1857. The list is organised under sub-headings ‘First Expedition’, ‘Second Expedition’, ‘Steamers on the First Expedition’ and ‘Steamers on the Second Expedition’, and details the tonnage, monthly charges, and date of engagement of each ship.Physical description: 1 item (7 folios)