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13. ‘Book 161 1847’ Vol 161 Letters inward
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- Abstract: The file contains letters received by Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, from Arthur Malet, Secretary (later Chief Secretary) to the Government of Bombay in the Political Department, Bombay Castle and written between January and December 1847.Arthur Malet’s letters contain information, guidance and instructions from the Governor in Council of Bombay to the Resident. Several of his letters are followed by enclosures, some of which are dated 1845 and 1846.The majority of the correspondence relates to the suppression of the maritime slave trade between the East Coast of Africa and the Persian Gulf and includes:English version of the Treaty between Great Britain and the Imam of Muscat, dated 2 October 1845 and signed at Zanzibar by Saeed Saeed bin Sultan [Sa`id bin Sultan Al Sa‘id], Sultan of Muscat (the Imam of Muscat) and Captain Atkins Hamerton (British Consul and East India Company Agent in the dominions of the Imam of Muscat);Letter dated 1846 from Lord Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, London to Henry Wellesley (1st Earl Cowley) and Colonel Justin Sheil, both British representatives at Tehran and Constantinople respectively, asking them to persuade the courts of Persia and Turkey to issue firmans (royal decrees) prohibiting the slave trade in Persian and Turkish ports of the Persian Gulf;Instructions (an undated copy) from the Lords of the Admiralty to the Commanders of Her Majesty’s ships about the seizure of slave vessels under the terms of the new treaty with the Imam of Muscat, also letters of instruction dated 1847, from the Bombay Government to the Superintendent of the Indian Navy and the British Political Agent, Aden about issuing similar instructions for their own warships, also the procedure to be followed with regard to seized vessels and slaves sent to Aden;English translation of an Arabic letter of congratulations dated 22 November 1847, from George Russell Clerk, Governor of Bombay to the Imam of Muscat, about the seizure of eleven Muscat slave ships at sea, made by Captain Lowe, Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf, under the terms of the Treaty between Great Britain and the Imam of Muscat dated 2 October 1845.Physical description: Foliation: the contents are numbered 1B, 2-40, from the front to the back of the file. The numbering is written in pencil on the recto, in the top right corner and encircled. The front cover of the file is numbered 1A. The inside of the back cover is numbered 41. There is an unnumbered folio between folios 13 and 14.Pagination: the contents are also irregularly numbered 31-33, 59, 74-106, 111, 217-224, 234, 295-297, 310, 365-368, 391-395, 411, 426-427, 433-434. The numbering is written in ink, usually on both the recto and verso; in the top right and left corner respectively. All blank pages and the majority of pages containing brief details such as the name of the sender or the date the letter was sent, are unnumbered.Condition: holes and tears in the margins and along the outer edges of many folios have caused a slight loss of the text of documents.
14. 'The Persian "Moratorium" scheme.'
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- Abstract: This file, written by John Evelyn Shuckburgh, India Office, concerns what is referred to as a moratorium scheme for Persia.According to the report, the scheme was first suggested by the Persian Government in March 1915, when it proposed that Persia should be relieved, for a fixed period of two years (dated from the beginning of the First World War), of all payments on its British and Russian loans.The report discusses an adopted joint Anglo-Russian subvention, by which the Persian Government should be paid the sum of £30,000 a month (with one quarter of this amount – £7,500 – being taken from Indian revenues), back-dated to January 1915 and continuing until six months after the end of the war.Shuckburgh reports that Charles Murray Marling, British Minister at Tehran, now proposes that Persia be paid 200,000 tomans a month, equivalent to £57,800, which will require a payment of £14,450 a month from Indian revenues.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 115, and terminates at f 116, 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
15. 'The Persian Situation'
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- Abstract: This file consists of a report which discusses ways in which Britain might protect its interests in Persia. The report, written by John Evelyn Shuckburgh, Secretary to the Political Department, India Office, begins by stressing the importance of Britain taking an active interest in affairs in Persia, since events there may have an impact on Britain's position in India.Shuckburgh opines that Persia, as a body politic, is in the last stages of decay and decomposition, and he describes how the country has been used as a base for anti-British agitation in Afghanistan and elsewhere.Whilst noting that the British occupation of Baghdad in March 1917 appeared to redress the balance of power in the East in Britain's favour, Shuckburgh argues that the Russian revolution has upset all calculations; he remarks that Russia has ceased to be an effective ally against German and Turkish threats to Britain's presence in Persia and may in fact become a potential enemy.Shuckburgh suggests that Britain requests that the Persian Government takes steps to protect the North-West frontier of Persia (with an offer of British military assistance), whilst making it clear that if prompt and effective action does not appear to be forthcoming then Britain will take certain measures in accordance with its own interests in the East.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 120, and terminates at f 121, 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
16. 'Respecting the measures adopted to procure restitution of the property seized on hoard the Hector by the Sheik of Busheab in the Persian Gulph'
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- Abstract: This item consists of extracts from political letters received from the Government of Bombay by the Court of Directors, containing enclosures regarding the measures taken to secure the return of East India Company property that was seized from the country ship Hectorin the Persian Gulf by the Shaikh of Busheab [Shaikh of Nakhīlū].The enclosures, which discuss the Company's claim for restitution and negotiations for the return of the vessel, mainly consist of the following: letters received at Bombay from Samuel Manesty, Resident at Bussora [Basra]; letters from Lieutenant Charles Pasley of the Persian Mission to Neil Benjamin Edmonstone, Secretary to the Government in the Secret, Political and Foreign Departments, Fort William; correspondence between Manesty and Pasley.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 58, and terminates at f 87, 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 file also contains an original pagination.
17. 'The Seistan Mission 1872.'
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- Abstract: This file consists of one handwritten and one typescript copy of a memorandum written in the India Office Political Department, in which the author describes the resolution, through British arbitration, of a dispute between the Governments of Persia and Afghanistan relating to the allocation of the Perso-Afghan boundary in Seistan.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 6; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
18. ‘Persia. Claims of British Officers against the Government of.’
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- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, an extract of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 31 March 1846.The item relates to the settlement of claims due to British officers from the Persian [Iranian] Government. In particular, the item includes:Details of the officers in question and the amounts owed to their estatesDetails on the amount transferred by the Persian Government directly to the Court of Directors in LondonReports on the progress made by John Williams, General Paymaster, in settling the claimsA letter from a Mr Elander, clerk and draftsman, who requests the money owed to the estate of Richard Gibbons (ff 581-582).Particular attention is also paid to claims made by Tagubee [Taguhi] Shee, widow of Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Bazil Shee, who supplies copies of statements and acquittance rolls as evidence, but whose claims are complicated by a claim made against her by an Armenian merchant at Tehran. A copy of Tagubee Shee’s petition can be found at folios 559-560.Correspondents include: Tagubee Shee; Williams; Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, HM Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran; the Court of Directors; the [provincial] Government of Scinde [Sindh]; and the governments of Bombay and India.Tagubee is also rendered in the text as: Sagubee; Saguhee; and Taquhee.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5287, Draft 503/46’, ‘Coll[ection] 23’, ‘Collection N. 35 of N. 41’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 551, and terminates at f 595, 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.
19. 'PERSIA.'
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- Abstract: This file consists of a memorandum written in the India Office Political Department, in which the author provides a summary of British and Indian interests in Persia, of the functions handed over to Persian authorities since the accession of Reza Shah, and of the principal British desiderata in on-going negotiations between the British and Persian Governments.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences and terminates at the first folio with 1; this numbers is written in pencil, is circled, and is located in the top right corner of the recto side of the folio.
20. 'The History of Seistan and Lash-Jowain'
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- Abstract: This document was compiled and signed by H Le Poer Wynne (Foreign Department) and covers the history of Seistan and Lash-Jowain [Lāsh-e Juwayn], including the dispute over sovereignty which led to the Anglo-Persian War (1856-7).The document is divided into the following sections:1. The history of the Province up to the Persian War of 1856-7.2. Events and correspondence regarding the Province from the period immediately preceding the Persian War of 1856-7 down to 1861.3. The alarm which Dost Mahomed's [Dost Mohammad Khan] advance on Furrah [Farāh]and Herat [Herāt]caused the Persian Government, and the correspondence which followed, 1861-1864.4. The views expressed by the Home Government during this period.5. The quiet occupation of the Province by Persia from 1864 to the end of 1867.6. Her further advance and raids into the territory of Sheikhnassoor, Furrah, and Candahar[Kandahār], from end of 1868 to present date.7. The despatches of the British Minister at Tehran regarding (1) Persia's apprehensions of Shere Ali's designs on Seistan; (2) the late raids into Afghan territory.8. Correspondence regarding the proposal to submit the matter to British arbitration.Much of the document is compiled using extracts from correspondence submitted between officials in Britain, Persia and Afghanistan.Physical description: 38 folios
21. 'Report of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Stewart, Bengal Staff Corps, on Special Duty on the Perso-Afghan Frontier.'
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- Abstract: This file consists of a report written by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Stewart, Bengal Staff Corps, in which he describes his journeys to and around Mashad, Herat and Merv in the vicinity of the Perso-Afghan frontier, and provides detailed intelligence regarding topography, settlements, communications, vegetation and agriculture. He also describes local populations, tribes and chiefs, and their present and historical actions and allegiances.The author records his opinion that due to a general fear of Torcoman raids, and a positive attitude towards Russia, the region of Khurasan [Khorāsān] could willingly fall under Russian sway; he therefore urges the instalment of an English officer on the Perso-Afghan frontier to maintain a British influence there.The report is written in twelve chapters, and is followed by five appendices giving detailed descriptions of routes travelled, with mileages.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 123 and terminates at the last folio with 162, 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 123-162; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
22. ‘Letters from Mr Murray received Oct.17.1856’
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- Abstract: This bundle consists of two secret despatches from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray residing at Baghdad (1 September 1856, Numbers 77 and 78). The subject matter is Murray's conviction that the Persian Government is set on evading the British Foreign Secretary's demand for the withdrawal of Persian forces from Herat.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
23. ‘Letters from Mr Murray received Oct.4.1856’
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- Abstract: This bundle contains summaries of two secret dispatches from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray, residing at Baghdad (18 and 25 August 1856, Numbers 73 and 76). They outline matters which – in the view of Murray – should be settled before diplomatic relations are resumed with the Persian Government. A demand made by Lord Clarendon, Foreign Secretary [George Villiers, 4 Earl of Clarendon] for the withdrawal of Persian troops from Herat is also discussed, as are the measures required to disrupt Southern Persia.Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
24. ‘Letters from Persia received Sept 10.1856’
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- Abstract: This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray, residing at Baghdad (14, 22, and 26 July 1856, Numbers 63 and 65-66).The despatches discuss correspondence that has taken place between the Persian Government and Eesa Khan [Isa Khan Bardorani, Minister-regent] respecting Herat, ‘insults and injuries’ against the British Mission and Consulate in Tehran, and Murray's views as to the demands the British Government should make for the restoration of diplomatic relations with Persia.Physical description: 1 item (5 folios)