Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 31 January 1848. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details of further enclosures. The item is the forty-ninth in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item relates to correspondence received by Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, from Shaik Syf bin Nubhan [Shaikh Sayf bin Nabhān al-Mu‘awali], Governor of Bunder Abass [Bandar-e ʻAbbas], dated 6 October 1847. The correspondence claims that the Queen [Victoria] has sanctioned a proposal by Syed Saed [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd], the Imam of Muscat, to transfer control of his rented territories in Persia [Iran] to Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, HM Minister at the Court of Persia. The item contains the reactions of Hennell and the Government of Bombay to this claim, with the latter requesting further information from Captain Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul and Company Agent in the Dominions of the Imam of Muscat.Sheil is also referred to as HM Minister at the Court of Tehran and HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Tehran.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 345/48, Coll: 2, Vol: 49’, ‘Collection No. 5 of No. 21’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 551, and terminates at f 556, 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: Correspondence and other papers relating to the Christian cemetery in Bahrain. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Political Agent at Bahrain (numerous incumbents); the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave); representatives of the Arabian Mission in Bahrain, later referred to as the American Mission in Bahrain (Reverend Gerrit Dirk Van Peursem; Reverend G E De Dong; Edwin M Luidens).Correspondence covers:in 1932, the administration of the cemetery, and permission to extend the cemetery, granted by the Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah;in 1933, the preparation of plans for the extension of the cemetery;from 1934 onwards, funding for the maintenance of the cemetery, including the Political Agency’s own annual donation until 1947;in 1949, a request for funding for the further extension to the cemetery.The file includes a plan of the cemetery (f 3), and a copy of the title deed for land gifted by the Bahrain Government for the extension of the cemetery in 1933 (f 16).Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 81; 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 also present in parallel between ff 2-80; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. Attachments are foliated as follows: f 29A, f 35A, f 74A.
Abstract: This part contains correspondence relating to the sale to the Persian Government of the telegraph line between Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] and Kwash [Khāsh] in the Baluchistan province of Persia [Iran]. The principal correspondents are: the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India; the Agent to the Governor-General, Resident and Chief Commissioner, Baluchistan, F W Johnston.Physical description: 1 item (21 folios)