Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2174/105546. It is the twelfth in a series of forty-five items on the Persian Gulf. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Remington & Co.The item concerns a request to the Government of Bombay from Remington & Co for passage to the Gulf for a Captain and Chief Officer, who have been engaged by the company to come to the aid of the Dutch brigantine
Leenoo[also rendered as Leeno and Leenn in the item] at Bushire [Bushehr].The item contains a table of contents (f 369), and the title page (f 368) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5507, Coll. 7, Vol. 12’, ‘D/t 197/47’, ‘Collection No. 11 of No. 20’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 368 and terminates at f 374, 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: This item consists of copies of correspondence, memoranda, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; the Military Department of the Government of Bombay; and Lieutenant Colonel Grant.The item concerns the proposed fortifications to Aden, particularly:The question of placing a battery at Seera Island [Sira Island]Constructions in Western BayThe battery at Munsooree [Al-Mansoura]Conversion of Flint Island into a coal depot, and the suitability of armament for the harbour defenceThe proposed battery on Ras Morbut [Ra's Marbut] being overlooked by an adjacent hillThe number of extra labourers required from India, and the question of their transport to Aden.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 293/47, P.C. [Previous Communication] 5565’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 755, and terminates at f 831, 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 volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Atkins Hamerton, Agent and Consul in the dominions of the Imam of Muscat; Mr Larkin, Officiating Senior Magistrate of Police at Bombay; and Gregor Grant, Senior Magistrate of Police at Bombay.The item concerns a fifteen-year-old boy, originally from Meerzapoor [Mirzapur] who was left on the island of Pemba and then sent to Zanzibar. From there, Hamerton sent him to Bombay, and he was afterwards conveyed to his family in Calcutta [Kolkata].The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 700/47, Collection No 3 of No 7’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 4, and terminates at f 11, 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 volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: This file contains the monthly (approximately) political diary entries by the Political Agent in Muscat to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. The entries cover a range of subjects including the movement of British officials, transport, tribal affairs, commodity prices, and shipping, and local news.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 35; 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 a pair of telegrams between HM Ambassador, Cairo, and the Government of India regarding travel information for Sir Ronald Cross's (United Kingdom High Commissioner for Australia) travel throughout India and Pakistan.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.