Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2416/130506. It is the eighth in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Commodore John Patterson Porter, Commanding the Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf.The item contains Commodore Porter’s report of his tour of the Arabian coast of the Gulf, with details of his interviews with a number of the rulers, or their representatives, and with Moollah Houssein [Mullā Ḥusayn], the Agent at Shargah. Topics discussed include the situation in Braimee [Al Buraymi], and a dispute between dependents of the rulers of Debaye [Dubai] and Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi].Also included are:Commodore Porter’s instructions to Lieutenant James Tronson, commanding HC brig
Euphrates, for proceeding to Bahrein [Bahrain], which Porter was unable to do during his tourA list of the presents given to the rulers of the Arabian coast in 1850.The item contains a table of contents (f 511), and the title page (f 510) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 8’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 510 and terminates at f 522, 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 item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, a political letter from the Government of Bombay, which appears in IOR/F/4/2445/134344. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is the seventeenth in a series of twenty-one items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns a list of items which Hennell wishes to be purchased in Bombay [Mumbai] and then sent to him for presentation to the rulers on the Arabian coast in 1852.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft N 34 – 1852’, and ‘Collection No 32’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 256, and terminates at f 259, 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 item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Lieutenant Colonel Henry Robertson, Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns the forwarding of an astrolabe, which had been presented to Major David Wilson when he was Resident at Bushire [Bushehr] between 1827 and 1830 by the Prince of Shiraz [Husayn ‘Ali Mirza Farmanfarma, Prince-Governor of Fars], to the Court of Directors.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 80, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3711, [Season 18]43’, ‘Collection No 6’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 109 and terminates at f 113, 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 item consists of copies of correspondence and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2416/130506. It is the eighteenth in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay and Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns complaints about transit duties being wrongly levied between Bushire [Bushehr] and Shiraz on goods belonging to British merchants. The Prince-Governor of Fars has issued a rukum [raqam] addressing this and, at the request of Hennell, a mohussil [muhaṣṣil, a tax collector or commissioner] was employed to convey the rukum to the different Custom Houses. Hennell now requests sanction from the Government of Bombay for a sum of money to be disbursed as a present to the mohussil.The item contains a table of contents (f 614), and the title page (f 613) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 18’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 613 and terminates at f 616, 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 item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, resolutions, memoranda, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2302/118727. The main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Syud Thooenee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Governor of Muscat; and Mahomed bin Alli [Muḥammad bin ‘Alī al-Jaylānī], Chief of the Beni boo Alli [Banū Bū ‘Alī]. It is the seventeenth in a series of fifty-one items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns arrangements for the surveying expedition of the
Palinurusto the south-east parts of the Arabian Coast, including letters of recommendation from Syud Thooenee and presents for local leaders who rendered assistance to the expedition.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No 17 of No 129’, ‘Coll[ection]: 17’ and ‘Draft no 465 of 49’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 434, and terminates at f 465, 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 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/4/2203/108134. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is the twenty-fourth in a series of thirty items.The item concerns a request by Hennell for the Government of Bombay’s approval of his payments for presents and boat hire. The recipients and costs of the presents are noted.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 700/47, Collection No 18 of No 49’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 763, and terminates at f 766 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: Translation of a letter from the Persian [Iranian] Minister for Foreign Affairs, Meerza Abul Hussan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khan Shīrāzī], to the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Nessolrode [Count Karl Robert Nesselrode]. In the letter, Meerza Abul Hussan Khan give his thanks for the receipt of a crystal couch as a gift for the Shah of Persia, and reports the imminent return of the bearer of the gift, Mr Noskoff [Ivan Fyodorovich Noskov], to Russia. The letter also reports that the Shah has released a group of Russian prisoners held in Tehran, who will be sent to Tiflis [Tbilisi] accompanied by Meerza Mahomed Ali [Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿAlī Khan Shīrāzī], and indicates that the Persian Government wishes to send an ambassador to the Russian Government to clarify the role of the Russian ‘frontier authorities’ in the outbreak of the ongoing war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828].This document was originally enclosed, numbered 3 in enclosure No. 1, in the letter of the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 23 December 1826 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/156).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Translation of a firman [order] from the Shah of Persia, Futteh Ali Shah [Fath-Ali Shah Qajar], to the Court of Directors of the East India Company. The firman expresses the Shah’s gratitude and amity to the Court of Directors for the provision of a gift of a large number of China porcelain pieces to the Shah.The translation was enclosed, alongside the original firman (IOR/L/PS/9/68/139), in HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], Sir Gore Ouseley’s letter to the Chairman, Deputy Chairman and the Court of Directors of the East India Company of 15 July 1813 (IOR/L/PS/9/68/137), which was received on 11 January 1814.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Translation of a letter from Noskoff [Ivan Fyodorovich Noskov], a Russian officer who had delivered a gift of a glass couch to the Shah of Persia [Iran], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 20 Rajab 1242 [17 February 1827]. Noskoff reports his arrival at Erivan [Yerevan] and indicates the commencement of his journey to the frontier between Russia and Persia. He also reports the receipt of a letter from the Cayim Mukam [Mirza Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qāʾim-Maqām] concerning glassware belonging to the Russian envoy to Persia, Prince Minchakoff [Prince Aleksandr Sergeevich Menshikov], and indicates that he has requested that the glassware be kept for safe keeping by the Cayim Mukam until he has been given instructions by Prince Minchakoff (see IOR/L/PS/9/70/187).This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1 in No. 40, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 23 March 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/192).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: The translation of a memorandum from the Shah of Persia [Shah of Iran, Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir. The memorandum lists articles that the Shah wishes for Macdonald Kinneir to procure for him, including firearms, spectacles, knives and cloth.This document was originally enclosed in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 19 September 1826 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/144).Physical description: 1 item (1 folio)
Abstract: The translation of a note from the Vizier of the Prince Royal of Persia [Iran], the Cayim Mukam [Mirza Abu'l-Qasim Farahani, Qa'im Maqam], to Noskoff [Ivan Fyodorovich Noskov], a Russian officer who had delivered a gift of a crystal couch to the Shah of Persia. In the letter, the Cayim Mukam indicates that on the orders of the Prince Royal [Crown Prince of Persia, 'Abbās Mīrzā Qājār] other articles of glassware left at Tehran by Noskoff have been kept for safe keeping and are ready to be returned to him. The Cayim Mukam also forwards a message for the former Russian Consul General to Tabriz, Ambourgher, expressing his and the Prince Royal’s warm feeling towards him and the Russian envoy to Persia, Prince Minchakoff [Prince Aleksandr Sergeevich Menshikov].This translation was originally enclosed, numbered 8, in the letter of the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 11 February 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/179).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Aga Mahomed Rahim Shirazee [Āghā Muḥammad Raḥim Shirāzi], Agent of the Imaum of Muscat [Imam of Muscat, Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd].The item concerns a gift of Arabian horses sent from Muscat to Her Majesty [Queen Victoria] on the
Higginson, which left Bombay [Mumbai] on 4 May 1839.The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No. 8, Draft 456, P.C. [Previous Communication] 2762, [Season] 1840’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 268 and terminates at f 273, 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.