Abstract: Correspondence discusses the case of a British Indian traveller murdered by the Shihuh [al-Shiḥūḥ] as he was making his way from Karachi to Dubai via Muscat and Dibah [possibly Dibba, at the northern tip of the Arabian Peninsula]. Issues discussed include:The itinerary of the British Indian who was murderedDetails of the investigation into the matter and attempts to arrest the suspected manMaintenance of British prestige and punitive actions against the Shihuh including seizure of their dhowsCorrespondence with Sultan Said bin Taimur [Sulṭān Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd, Sulṭān of Muscat] over the matter.Correspondents include the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf; Major Ralph Ponsonby Watts, Political Agent Muscat; Said bin Taimur; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; officials of the India Office, London.Physical description: Foliation: The main foliation sequence commences at the title page and terminates at the 4th sheet from the back of the volume; these numbers are written in pencil and can be found in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Circled index numbers written in red crayon are also present throughout the volume. Foliation anomalies: 1A, 1B and 1C.
Abstract: Papers relating to the reported murder of Ibn Hithlain [Nāyif bin Ḥithlayn] of the ’Ajmān tribe, and Ibn Lami of the Mutair [Muṭayr] tribe, and others, at the orders of the King of Saudi Arabia Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd)], at Hoffuf [Al Hufūf]. The file includes:Extracts from the Kuwait Intelligence Summaries for August 1933, October 1933, and November 1934, reporting the abductions and rumours of murders.A letter from the British Minister at Jedda, Andrew Ryan, to Sir John Simon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated 25 January 1934, concerning the veracity of reports of the murders, discussion with Ibn Saud’s adviser Faud Bey Hamza, and his reluctance to call Ibn Saud to account over the matter.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 13; 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 3-11; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: This item comprises printed Foreign Office correspondence relating to Persia [Iran], covering geopolitical, political, economic, social and cultural matters. The despatches are dated 7 July 1897-22 September 1898.The first page of each despatch includes the heading ‘ASIA. CONFIDENTIAL.’ on the top left, and the day and month of the despatch in square brackets on the top right e.g. ‘[July 7.]’. The letters in each despatch are numbered, e.g. No. 1, followed, where relevant, by numbered enclosures (spelled ‘inclosure’ in the volume), e.g. ‘Inclosure in No. 1.’ or ‘Inclosure 1 in No. 2.’. A few of the letters from Charles Hardinge, First Secretary, Tehran, to Persian Government ministers are in French.The item notably covers and includes:The financial difficulties of the Persian Government including: negotiations for foreign loans to the Persian Government, notably a proposed loan of forty million francs by Messrs Solomon Oppenheim of Paris and Cologne on the security of the customs revenues of the southern ports of Persia, and proposed Russian loans (including a copy of a draft agreement, in French, presented to the Persian Government by the Russian Legation, ff 375-376); and loans negotiated with the Imperial Bank of Persia, notably a loan of fifty-thousand pounds secured by control of the customs revenue of Bushire [Bushehr] and KermanshahAffairs relating to the Persian Mint and its relations with the Imperial Bank of PersiaThe murder of Mr Graves, a commissioned officer of the Indo-European Telegraph Department, at Karwan in southern Persia, the indemnity demanded from the Persian Government by the British Government, measures taken for the arrest and punishment of the murderers, and arrangements for the future protection of the telegraph line and company employeesFactionalism, internecine strife, and changes in personnel within the Persian Government and Cabinet, including the dismissal of the Sadr-i-Azam [Ṣadr A‘ẓam, Prime Minister] in June 1898The assassination of Sheikh Mizal [Shaikh Miz’al Khān], Governor of Muhammerah [Khorramshahr, formerly Mohammerah], and recognition of Sheikh Khazal [Shaikh Khas’al bin Jābir bin Mirdāw al-Ka’bī, also spelled Khasal in this item] as the new GovernorAn attack on Koweit [Kuwait] by the Persian Sheikh Yussuf Ibrahim [Shaikh Yūsuf Ibrāhīm]The state of affairs in Azerbaijan and TabrizThe state of affairs in Persian Beluchistan [Balochistan]Rumours of a raid by members of the Shahsavend [Shahsavan] tribe into Russian territory allegedly killing twenty-five CossacksConstruction of the (Gulf of) Enzeli-Kazvin Road [Bandar-e Anzali-Qazvin], involving a concession by the Persian Government to the Russian Insurance and Transport CompanyRusso-Persian relations notably following the Russian doctors and Cossack escort forced upon the Persian Government against their willMilitary news and reportsThe persecution of Jews in Ispahan [Isfahan] and in Lar, including British official protests and concern to protect British Jews at those placesDisturbances at Charbar [Chabahar] and Jask and the deputation of (British) Indian troops to those placesThe construction of a road from Ahwaz [Ahvaz] to Ispahan and from Shuster [Shushtar] to Ispahan, and agreement of Messrs Lynch Brothers with Ali Guli Khan [Alī -Qulī Khān Sirdār Asad Bakhtiyārī] and others (ff 310-311), guaranteed by the Persian GovernmentA report by HM Consul in Ispahan on his journey to Kermanshah and Tehran, in connection with the question of the disputed properties of the British Agent at Kermanshah (ff 325-327)A report by Captain G S Elliot, HM Vice-Consul at Van, of a journey across the Persian frontier and reporting generally on state of affairs on both sides of the [Persian and Turkish] border (ff 362-368), notably covering the activities of Armenians in Van, and the Russian Mission to Nestorian Christians in Urumiah [Urmia or Orumiyeh]An insurrection in Yemen and the deployment of five to six thousand Ottoman troops to repress itA report of a journey across a part of Persian Baluchistan [Balochistan] by Captain Percy Molesworth Sykes (ff 400-401).The primary correspondents are: the Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary; Charles Hardinge, First Secretary, Tehran; Sir Philip Currie, Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire; Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran; the Imperial Bank of Persia; the India Office; and the Foreign Office. Enclosures are chiefly: correspondence of British diplomatic officials in the Middle East, notably William Loch, Consul-General at Bagdad [Baghdad]; reports and monthly summaries from Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Philip Picot, Military Attaché at Tehran; and occasional letters from Persian Government ministers.Physical description: 1 volume (215 folios)
Abstract: This item consists of a copy of a Political Despatch (the covering letter of the Despatch is absent and only the enclosures are present) from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 9 January 1874 and received by the India Office via Brindisi on 2 February 1874, forwarding a copy of letters from the Political Agent and Consul-General, Zanzibar, and the First Assistant to the Political Agent, Zanzibar, reporting information they have received regarding the murder of Lieutenant Marcus MacCausland, RN [Royal Navy], at the village of Kionga [Quionga, Mozambique] on the African Coast, some way north of Lamo [Lamu] on 15 September 1873. (MacCausland is confirmed as the commander of the
Daphne'who demanded the slave dhow and slaves from the Governor of Lamo, being under the impression that the Governor was only keeping the slaves in order to ship them when the coast was clear' (see Political No. 204 of 1873 IOR/L/PS/6/114, ff 29-31a, although there is no apparent connection of this incident with his murder).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 122, and terminates at f 125, 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 one foliation anomaly: f 122a.
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 16 January 1874 and received by the India Office Political Department on 10 February 1874. The despatch initially acknowledges receipt of the Secretary of State for India's despatch No. 142 of 1873 regarding the murder of Major Macdonald and the measures taken for the pursuit of his alleged assassin, Bahram Khan, in conjunction with the Ameer of Cabul [Amir of Kabul]. The second part of the despatch, comprising the majority of the correspondence, forwards copies of papers intimating that: the tenure of the command of posts on the North-West Frontier of the Punjab is limited to three years; steps have been taken to prevent the infliction of fines for cattle trespass; and the Commissioner of Peshawur [Peshawar] will be held responsible for reporting any officer considered unfit to hold the command of these posts.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 155, and terminates at f 168, 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 six foliation anomalies: f 155a, f 157a, f 160a, f 161a, f 164a, and f 165a.
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 8 September 1874, forwarding for information a copy of a letter from the Acting Political Agent at Zanzibar, reporting the death, on 21 July, of Mahomed Bwana Heri ’Mgnnia [spelled Mahomed Bwana Heri Mgunia in related item IOR/L/PS/6/121, ff 317-318a], the ‘murderer’ of Sub-Lieutenant MacCausland [spelled McCausland in IOR/L/PS/6/121, ff 317-318a], of HMS
Daphne. The despatch adds that this announcement renders unnecessary any further consideration of Dr John Kirk’s memorandum forwarded with despatch No. 88 of 14 August 1874. The despatch is in continuation of Political Despatch No. 102 of 1874 (IOR/L/PS/6/118, ff 223-230a).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 58, and terminates at f 61, 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 58a and f 60a.
Abstract: Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 32 of 1846, dated 16 March 1846. The enclosures are dated and contain correspondence relating to affairs in the Punjaub [Punjab], including: the publication and dissemination of the announcement for the successful termination of war in the Punjaub and the submission of Maharajah Duleep Sing [Mahārājah Dalīp Singh] and the Lahore Durbar [Court of the Sikh Khāliṣah] to the British Government; and the murder of an Arab villager of Bussorah [Basra] by a British seaman. There is a note in red ink on folio 327 indicating despatches twenty to twenty-one are missing, dated 29 October 1906. This item commences with an abstract of contents (folios 325-328). Correspondence from the Government of Bombay.Physical description: 1 item (30 folios)
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a General Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 9 June 1874. The Despatch is in continuation of Political No. 51 of 6 March 1874 [IOR/L/PS/6/117, ff 27-31], regarding the murder of Sub-Lieutenant McCausland of HMS
Daphne; it forwards a copy of a further letter from the Acting Political Agent, Zanzibar, reporting the steps taken by him with the view of procuring the punishment of the culprits.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 223 and terminates at f 230a, 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 four foliation anomalies: f 225a, f 226a, f 228a, and f 230a.
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 21 July 1874, regarding the murder of Mr Arthur Heale by a couple of Somalians at Brava [Baraawe] in April 1874, and stating that the Political Agent at Zanzibar has been requested to urge upon the Sultan the necessity of the arrest and punishment of the assassins.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 216, and terminates at f 220, 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 one foliation anomaly, f 218a.
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 21 July 1874, forwarding, for information, a copy of a further letter from the Acting Political Agent, Zanzibar, relative to the murder of Mr Hartley by a party of ‘Arabs’ at Morongo [Morogoro?], in continuation of Political No. 79 of 1 May 1874 (IOR/L/PS/6/118, ff 5-9).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 221, 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. The sequence contains two foliation anomalies: f 221a and f 223a.
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 11 August 1874, forwarding a copy of a further letter from the Acting Political Agent at Zanzibar on the subject of the murder of Mr Arthur Heale by Somalians at Brava [Baraawe] in April 1874. The Despatch is in continuation of Political No. 134 of 1874 (IOR/L/PS/6/119, ff 216-220).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 275, and terminates at f 279, 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 one foliation anomaly, f 278a.
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 6 March 1874 and received by the India Office on 30 March 1874, forwarding a copy of a further report by the Political Agent at Zanzibar, Captain William Francis Prideaux, regarding the murder of Sub-Lieutenant McCauseland, of HMS
Daphne, and stating that Captain Prideaux’s proceedings have been approved. This Political Despatch is in continuation of No. 12, dated 9 January 1874.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 27 and terminates at f 31, 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 one foliation anomaly: f 27a.