Abstract: Correspondence and papers received from the Chief Controller of the Indian Stores Department of the Government of India. These include: a copy of a brochure entitled ‘Indian Stores Department. Its Organisation and Functions’ which includes lists of the classes of stores supplied by the Indian Stores Department, arranged under the subheadings engineering, hardware, and textiles (ff 5-21); circulars relating to the receipt of indents (official requisitions for stores) and bills at the Indian Stores Department; a blank copy of an indent form (ff 26-27).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 40; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present throughout; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: Correspondence and other papers, exchanged between staff at the Political Agency in Bahrain and others, including the British Residency and Consulate in Bushire and the Government of Bahrain, relating to the order or exchange of goods from suppliers, merchants and colleagues, with shipping arrangements frequently made with the Bahrain shipping agent Gray, Mackenzie & Company Limited. Goods discussed include:Electrolux refrigerators, ordered through the Bahrain merchant Yousuf Abdul Rahman Fakhroo, and including correspondence for the delivery of one refrigerator to H Borovitz of the Etimadeyah Spinning and Weaving Company in Bushire;medical supplies, including quinine, and a request from the Chief Medical Officer for the Government of Bahrain for Penicillin, with correspondence following on arrangements for the quick delivery of Penicillin to Bahrain;other miscellaneous items including coke, washing soda, vegetable ghee, electrical wiring, coir matting, car batteries, and stamps.A small number of papers in the file are in Arabic.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 172; 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 2-53; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: Correspondence exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the principal shipping agents at Bahrain: the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited, and Gray, Mackenzie & Company Limited. The correspondence is routine, and relates to the exchange of bills of lading and redemption of letters of guarantee for cargo arriving in Bahrain for the Political Agency. The file contains numerous letters of guarantee, signed by the Political Agent. The cargos involved include: fresh fruit and other foodstuffs, cases of alcohol, ‘Government stores’ (office supplies, stationery), flags, and garden equipment.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 112; 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 2-102; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: Copies of correspondence exchanged between British offices in the Persian Gulf, chiefly the Persian Gulf Political Residency or British Consulate in Bushire, and the Political Agency in Bahrain. The papers deal with matters of a routine nature, including:the order of goods from suppliers and merchants, and their shipment to consignees. Ordered goods include alcohol for the Residency, firearms and ammunition, furniture, automobiles and lubricant oils, copper wire to replace stolen telegram cables at Bushire, plant and vegetable seeds, office supplies, and sports equipment. Wartime correspondence makes reference to the export licenses required for shipped goods;telegrams giving notification of the departure, movements and anticipated arrival of British officers and other individuals in the Gulf;arrangements for passports and passage for individuals, including two tailors travelling from Bahrain to Shiraz;sale of and transfer to England of carpets belonging to the late Political Resident, Sir Trenchard William Craven Fowle.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 273; 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 2-268; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: Copies of correspondence and other papers, chiefly comprising communications between Henry Pottinger, Resident in Sinde [Sindh, also spelled Scinde in this volume], and the Government of India, Bombay [Mumbai], regarding his arrangements for obtaining and transporting stores and supplies for the Bombay division of the Army of the Indus advancing from Kurrachee [Karachi] under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir John Keane.The papers notably cover:Obtaining boats, camels, horses and bullocksLogistics of moving stores down the line by land and river towards Bukker [Bukkur]Reports on the route from Kurrachee to Tatta [Thatta], by Lieutenant Buckle, Indian Navy, and Lieutenant Macleod, Bombay Engineers, and use of the Garrah [Gharo] Creek near the port of Kurrachee, including compass sketches of the route to the Creek (catalogued as sub-items IOR/L/PS/5/375, ff 632 and 633)Payment of the Jam of Garrah for British use of the Garrah CreekCost estimate for repairing the Manora Fort [also spelled Munnara, Munara, and Moonarat in this volume] for damage sustained during the bombardment by HMS
Wellesley, including drawing of fort (catalogued as sub-item IOR/L/PS/5/375, f 599)An account of a potential route from Sonmeanee [Somiani, also spelled Someena and Somanee in this volume] in Beloochistan [Balochistan] via Kelat [Kalat] to the city of Candahar [Kandahar] as described by a horse merchant of Affghanistan [Afghanistan] to Captain W C Harris, Field Engineer with the Sinde Reserve Force, 5 April 1839 (ff 601-613), including a list of places en route and remarks on each oneRates and payment of allowances for members of the Poona [Pune] Auxiliary Horse sent and attached to the Resident in Sinde to escort suppliesUrgent request by Captain William Joseph Eastwick, Officiating Political Agent, Upper Sinde, for the assignment of two assistants by the Bombay GovernmentIntelligence, with orders, replies and observations, from Lahore, Peshawur [Peshawar], Cabool [Kabul], Shikarpore [Shikarpur], the Army of the Indus, Nipal [Nepal], Ava, and general intelligence (ff 625-631).The principal correspondents are: Pottinger; and John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay.Physical description: The papers are not in chronological order.
Abstract: This file consists of one letter and a note from the Middle East Supply Centre in Cairo. The letter is a study of local resources in Persia regarding supplies and transport of coal and coal lumps and is composed of several parts covering the following topics:The supplies of coal lumps that civilians needThe prices of coal and coal lumps in the Persian GulfTests on the quality of the shipsDifficulties in transporting the material from Tehran to the GulfCoal requirements for the GulfResults of the transportsPetroleum cokeA trial shipment for Egypt.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 4; 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 consists of letters, telegrams and notes between officials acting on behalf of the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, London, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf regarding the requesting of supplies of stores, stationery and flags for the Residency and Agency at Bahrain, and the Trucial Coast, Kuwait and Muscat Agencies.The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 21, 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 consists of correspondence between F P Baker & Co Ltd, the India Office, and the Board of Trade regarding an export licence application and arrangements for supplies to the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Bushire.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 16; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence relating to the supply of items and material requested by the Persian Gulf Residency, including: kerosene operated Electrolux refrigerators; one copy each of the Passport Control Manual, Consular Instructions, and Summary of Visa Regulations; and a safe for passports and consular stamps.The correspondence is largely between Francis Anthony Kitchener Harrison, Political Department, India Office, and the following: Captain G I Pettigrew; the Ministry of Works; the India Store Department, Blackpool; the Persian Gulf Residency; and the Office of the High Commissioner for India. The file also includes: telegrams between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Secretary of State for India; and internal India Office notes.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 43; 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 part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 130 of 1846, dated 2 November 1846. The enclosures, numbered 3-17 and dated 7 October to 2 November 1846, relate to affairs at Aden and within its vicinity.The enclosures consist of correspondence, and minutes of the Government of Bombay, covering matters including:The Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, reporting that the blockade of Shugra [Shuqra] and the bay around Gibul Hassan [Jabal Hassan?] has been ‘manifestly successful’, dissuading those ‘Chieftains’ who intended to unite their tribes at Sheik Othman [Ash Shaikh Outhman] from doing so, and leading Sultan Hamed Foutheli [Sulṭān Aḥmad bin ‘Abdullāh al-Faḍlī] to retire to Shugra to protect his territory, leaving the roads open for kafilas [caravans] to reach AdenHaines pointing out the advantages of a small vessel with a long gun being sent to Aden for serviceThe Imam of Sana [Sanaa] reportedly intending to march to Lahidge [Lahij or Lahej] to subjugate it and the surrounding area; Haines’s belief that the Imam may wish to confer with him about the ‘agitated’ state of the tribes inland; his view that the Imam may easily regain Taaes [Taʿizz] and Ebb [Ibb]; and that if this is the Imam’s intention then the coffee producing area will be open to the Aden market, and Haines requesting the opinion of Government on this possibilityThe French Consul at Mussowah [Massawa] having written to Haines regarding a ‘Banian’ merchant named ‘Woobee’ being (in the Consul’s opinion unjustly) imprisoned and ‘ill-treated’ by the Turkish [Ottoman] Governor for a debt of seventy years standing, and Haines writing to the Governor to request kindness to be shown towards a British subject and that no punishment may be inflicted until the justice of the claim has been enquired into in the presence of a commander of a vessel of war, which Haines will send to Mussowah as soon as practicableThe arrival of the Honourable Company’s schooner
Constanceat Aden, Haines reporting having despatched the vessel to blockade the port of Shugra, and the arrangements made by him to supply the vessel with water and provisionsHaines requesting sanction from the Government of Bombay for having obtained supplies from Maccalla [Mukalla, also spelled Maculla in this item] for the Commissariat at Aden, costing 279 German CrownsHaines reporting on the supply of provisions for the garrison at Aden, and his expectation that there will not be any scarcityMeasures taken to relieve the wing of HM 94th Regiment at Aden.The majority of the correspondence is between the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet, and the Political Agent at Aden. The enclosures also include: letters from Malet to the Secretary to the Governor-General of India, Frederick Currie; a letter from Malet to the Superintendent of the Indian Navy, Captain Sir Robert Oliver; enclosed letters from Haines to the Secretary to the Secret Committee, and to the officer commanding the Honourable Company’s schooner
Queenand Senior Naval Officer at Aden, Lieutenant John Glen Johnstone, Indian Navy; and an extract from the proceedings of the Government of Bombay in the Military Department, consisting of a copy of a letter to Haines from the Secretary to Government in the Military Department, Peter Melvill Melvill.Physical description: 1 item (30 folios)