Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence 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-fifth in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item relates to letters sent by Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia [Iran], in September 1847. The letters relate to:The assistance (as requested by Sheil) that Hennell is providing to Syed Hasheim Jemaranee [Sayyid Hāshim Jamārānī], who has arrived at Bushire [Bushehr] with twenty-five followers and intends to go on a pilgrimage to MeccaVessels which have arrived at Bushire with enslaved people on board, thought to have been taken from Berberah [Berbera], Soor [Sur] and MuscatEfforts by Captain Lowe, Senior Officer in the Indian Navy, to capture vessels from Muscat departing from Bushire with enslaved people on boardThe status of the cholera outbreak at Bushire, Cazeroon [Kazerun], Shiraz and Bahrein [Bahrain].The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 345/48’, ‘Collection No. 2 of No. 139, Vol: 35.’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 440, and terminates at f 444, 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: Personal Narrative of a pilgrimmage to Al-Madinah and Meccah. Vol. Iby Captain Sir Richard F Burton, edited by his wife, Isabel Burton, with an introduction bu Stanley Lane-Poole.Publication Details: London, George Bell and Sons.Edition: The third edition with preface.Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xxx).Physical description: Dimensions: 185mm x 110mm
Abstract: Personal Narrative of a pilgrimmage to Al-Madinah and Meccah. Vol. IIby Captain Sir Richard F Burton, edited by his wife, Isabel Burton, with an introduction bu Stanley Lane-Poole.Publication Details: London, George Bell and Sons.Edition: The third edition with preface.Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xii).Physical description: Dimensions: 185mm x 110mm
Abstract: The file contains correspondence relating to travel arrangements for residents of the Persian Gulf on the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, particularly regarding fees and repatriation responsibilities. The main correspondents are as follows the Government of India, Department of Communications; the Secretary of State for India and Burma; the British Embassy in Iraq and the Persian Gulf Political Residency. Matters discussed include the Government of India's plan to offer travel to pilgrims via an Indian National Airways chartered aircraft from Bombay to Jedda, and the permissions they will need to obtain from rulers of the region to do this. Folios 5 to 11 contain correspondence detailing the decision to waive deposits usually charged to pilgrims travelling from the Persian Gulf Sheikhdoms of Kuweit, Bahrein, Oman and Muscat, and the Trucial Coast, costs of which will be absorbed by the British Consul, Basra.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 17; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file contains British Government correspondence regarding unconfirmed information, provided by the Saudi Arabian Quarantine Administration, of an outbreak of smallpox in local hospitals, following the end of pilgrimage [Hajj].The correspondents are the Commonwealth Relations Office and British Consul at Jeddah.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover 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.
