Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, reports, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2203/108134. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Syed Sooweeynee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Governor of Muscat. It is the fourteenth in a series of thirty items.The item concerns payment for a cargo of indigo seized by a Bushire [Bushehr] merchant, and the consequent lifting of embargoes on Persian [Iranian] merchants at Muscat.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 700/47, Coll[ectio]n: 18, Collection No 18 of No 49’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 713, and terminates at f 720 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.
Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 13 November 1847. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details of further enclosures. The item is the thirty-eighth in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item relates to the restoration of money and indigo to His Highness Saeed Thuweenee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd, Governor of Muscat]. Captain Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul and the Company’s Agent in the dominions of the Imam of Maskat [Muscat], reports to the Government of Bombay that he has communicated this information to the Imam, but has not yet asked the Imam whether Saeed Thuweenee might lift the embargo on silk from Persian [Iranian] merchants. The item contains the Government of Bombay’s response to Hamerton, as well as their further correspondence on the matter to Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, and to the Government of India.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 345/48’, ‘Collection No. 2 of No. 139, Vol: 38.’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The title page also contains a note that relevant correspondence can be found in Collection No. 2 accompanying despatch from the Government of Bombay, 1 April No. 49 of 1847.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 452, and terminates at f 456, 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.
Abstract: This volume consists of three items which are copies of correspondence, minutes, and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the governments of Bombay and Bengal. The items are:IOR/F/4/706/19082 'Transactions at Bussora & Bagdad vol 1'IOR/F/4/706/19083 'Transactions at Bussora & Bagdad vol 2'IOR/F/4/706/19084 'Transactions at Bussora & Bagdad vol 3'.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 366; 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.