Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 22 September 1874. The despatch is in reference to the Secretary of State for India’s despatch without date and number communicating the order of HM Government in regard to Mahomed Bwana Heri Mgunia [spelled Mahomed Bwana Heri ’Mgnnia in IOR/L/PS/6/121, ff 58-61], the ‘murderer’ of Sub-Lieutenant McCausland [spelled MacCausland in related item IOR/L/PS/6/121, ff 58-61] of HMS
Daphne, and refers the Secretary of State to Political Despatch No. 163 of 8 September 1874 (IOR/L/PS/6/121, ff 58-61).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 317, and terminates at f 318a, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains two foliation anomalies: f 317a and f 318a.
Abstract: Enclosures nos. 3-5 to dispatch no. 23 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 27 June 1861. The enclosures are dated 20 April-20 May 1861. Received 29 July 1861.The enclosures consist of letters from Captain Robert Lambert Playfair, Assistant Political Resident, in charge of the Residency, Aden, concerning the death of Henri Lambert, former Consular Agent of France at Aden. The French Commodore, Viscount Alphonse Fleuriot de Langle, who conducted an investigation into Lambert's death, believed that he had been murdered. Playfair comments on the evidence surrounding the death.The papers include numerous witness statements: some taken by Playfair, and others supplied by de Langle.Physical description: 1 item (29 folios)
Abstract: This file consists of letters between the Shaikh of Sharjah, Francis Fearon Turnbull and E W R Lumby regarding the receipt of a condolence letter to Lord Hailey following the death of his son.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 5; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The papers in this file relate to the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle (Political Resident in the Persian Gulf) and the actions taken by British officials to commemorate him. Many items are draft papers and include the original notice of death to be sent from the Secretary of State to the Government of India External Affairs Department (folio 20) and the condolence letter to be sent to Lady Fowle from Roland Tennyson Peel in the External Affairs Department (folio 11). Folios 2-9 include correspondence regarding the donation of Fowle's political uniform to 'any young officer' in the Indian Political Service.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 21; 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 item consists of a copy of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 2 June 1874 and received by the India Office Political Department on 8 July 1874, forwarding for information a copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay [Mumbai], reporting the death at Zanzibar on 22 March 1874 of Mr Brenner, Vice-Consul for the Austro-Hungarian Empire at Aden.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 132 and terminates at f 135, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains two foliation anomalies: f 132a and f 134a.
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosure to despatches from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 64 of 1840, dated 25 August 1840. The enclosures are dated 4 July-25 August 1840.They consist of correspondence relating to the Euphrates expedition up to Bagdad [Baghdad, also written this way in some of the correspondence], and the sickness and death from fever of engineers aboard the steam vessels
Nitocrisand
Assyria.Correspondents include the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] (Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Taylor); the Superintendent of the Indian Navy; and the Commandant of the Euphrates Expedition.Physical description: 1 item (22 folios)