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 13 February 1874 and received by the India Office via Brindisi on 9 March 1874, forwarding a letter from the Acting Political Resident in the Persian Gulf in which he forwards a letter from the Acting Political Agent and Consul, Muscat, relating to the intention of the French Government to establish a Vice-Consulate at Muscat. The covering letter of the despatch is absent and only the enclosures are present.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 224, and terminates at f 225, 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.
Abstract: Enclosure nos. 2-12 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 1 November 1844. The enclosures are dated 6 September-30 November 1844.The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to: a request from the French Post Office for one of the iron boxes used to transport mail between the United Kingdom and India to aid the construction of similar boxes for their own use (ff 143-147); and required improvements to the defences at Aden (ff 148-160).The primary correspondents are: the Postmaster-General, Bombay; the Political Agent, Aden; and the Government of India.Physical description: 1 item (23 folios)
Abstract: Copy of a letter in French from Jean Robbio, a French courier captured in Bushire, to Monsieur Dallons, a French envoy to Mascat [Muscat], of 11 April 1810. This letter was part of the papers seized from Robbio at Bushire by Stephen Babington, in charge of the Residency at Bushire (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/60). The letter describes Robbio’s audience with the Sultan of Mascat [Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd Sayyid] and the latter’s refusal to provide Robbio with subsistence; complains of his situation in Mascat; and requests assistance from Dallons.The letter was enclosed in HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], Sir Harford Jones’s secret letter of 14 September 1810, which was received on 6 February 1811.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Copy of an anonymous letter in French sent from Mascat [Muscat] to an unnamed French correspondent in the service of an Indian state, undated. This letter was part of the papers seized from Jean Robbio, a French courier captured in Bushire by Stephen Babington, in charge of the Residency at Bushire (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/60). The letter describes the author’s situation in Mascat [Muscat], and asks for assistance from the correspondent in return for a reward and the services of an experienced French navigator who is with the author in Mascat.The letter was enclosed in HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], Sir Harford Jones’s secret letter of 14 September 1810, which was received on 6 February 1811.Physical description: 1 item (3 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], to George Canning, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, sent from Tehran and dated 18 October 1824.The letter concerns reports that the French Ambassador in Constantinople [Istanbul] has made overtures to the Prince Royal [‘Abbās Mīrzā, Crown Prince] for the renewal of the alliance between France and Persia and the opening of a French Consulate in Tabreez [Tabrīz], and forwards related correspondence (IOR/L/PS/9/69/231-234).The letter was enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated 18 October 1824 (IOR/L/PS/9/69/222).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Enclosure nos. 2-8 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 30 January 1845. The enclosures are dated 17-23 November 1844.The enclosures consist of correspondence relating to the Treaty of Commerce and Friendship between France and Muscat, signed at Zanzibar on 17 November 1844. A copy of the treaty is included on folios 369-74.The primary correspondents are the Imam and the Political Agent, Zanzibar.Physical description: 1 item (16 folios)
Abstract: Extracts of six letters received at Bushire [Būshehr], presumably by the British Resident at Bushire, in April 1808, mostly relating to French influence in Persia [Iran]. The writer or writers of the letters are not identified. The first three letters are stated to have been sent from Sehraze [Shīrāz, also spelled Sehgras and Seherauze in this item].The extracts of letters were enclosed in a letter from Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia, to Lord Dundas, President of the Board of Control, of 2 June 1808, which was received in December 1808.Physical description: 1 item (8 folios)
Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 12 from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Koordan [Kordan or Kurdan], to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, of 2 July 1825. The letter concerns the mission to Persia of the Commissaire-Ordonnateur (Financial Commissary) of the French Establishments in India and Envoy of the King of France to Persia, the Vicomte Desbassayns de Richemont, including:Commercial arrangements between France and PersiaThe right of French ships to enter Persian portsThe ill health of the Vicomte DesbassaynsThe financial and political interests of Russia in the introduction of the French into Persia.This document was originally enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 3 July 1825 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/25).Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], to Sir George Canning, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The letter mostly discusses the reported signing of a treaty between Persia and France. Jones also forwards copies of his correspondence (not included in this item) with the Governor-General of Bengal concerning the reasons for Jones delaying his departure from Bombay [Mumbai] to Persia.The letter was enclosed in Jones’s letter to Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, of 2 June 1808, and was received in December 1808.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)