'Wrecks, Maritime outrages'

Content

This volume is concerned with 'outrages' committed by the Sheikh [Shaikh] of Bokha [Barka’, Oman] on the people of Shargah [Sharjah] whose boat foundered off his town. It is also concerned with fines exacted and the recovery of payments from various Shaikhs incurred for acts of piracy, the coercion of a vessel to sell its cargo to avoid paying 'double dues', and the disassociation people wished to make from the Chief of Demaum [Muḥammad bin ‘Abdullāh, Ad-Dammān] and asylum they sought.

Extent and format

1 volume, 17 items (32 folios)

It is grouped into

Letter from James Felix Jones I. N. Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Lacon Anderson Esquire, Secretary to Government, Bombay

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/175, ff 3-4

Translation of a letter from Hajee Yacoob, British Agent at Sharga [Sharjah], to Capt. James Felix Jones, Political Resident Bushire

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/175, f 5

Translation of a letter from Hajee Yacoob, British Agent at Shargah [Sharjah], to Capt. James Felix Jones, Political Resident, Bushire

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/175, f 6

Letter from Captain James Felix Jones I. N., Political Resident Persian Gulf, Bushire, to Commander William Balfour I. N., Senior Indian Naval Officer Commanding Persian Gulf Squadron Bassidore [Bāsaʽīdū]

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/175, f 7

Translation Purport of a Letter from Hajee Yacoob, British Agent at Sharga [Sharjah], to Captain James Felix Jones HM's I. N. Political Resident in the Persian Gulf

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/175, ff 8-9

Letter from Commander William Balfour, Persian Gulf Squadron, to Captain James Felix Jones, HM Political Resident, Persian Gulf

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/175, f 10

Letter no. 1941 of 1860 from Henry Lacon Anderson Esq., Acting Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay, to Captain James Felix Jones, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/175, f 11

Letter from Captain James Felix Jones I. N., Political Resident, Persian Gulf, Bushire, to Henry Lacon Anderson Esquire, Secretary to Government, Bombay

4 images

Ref: IOR/R/15/1/175, ff 14-15

Letter No. 2508 of 1859 from Captain James Felix Jones, I. N., Political Resident, Persian Gulf, Bushire, to Commander William Balfour, Senior Indian Naval Officer Commanding Persian Gulf Squadron, Bushire Roads

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/175, f 16

Letter from Captain James Felix Jones, I. N., Political Resident, Persian Gulf, Bushire, to Hajee Jassem, British Agent at Bahrain

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/175, ff 17-18

Letter from Captain James Felix Jones, I. N., Political Resident, Persian Gulf, Bushire, to Sheikh [Shaikh] Mahomed ben Khuleefa [Muḥammed bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah], Chief of Bahrein [Bahrain]

2 images

Ref: IOR/R/15/1/175, f 19

Letter from Captain James Felix Jones, I. N., Political Resident, Persian Gulf, Bushire, to Mahomed ben Ahmed in Sudeyree

2 images

Ref: IOR/R/15/1/175, f 20

Letter from Captain James Felix Jones, I. N., Political Resident, Persian Gulf, Bushire, to Hajee Jassem, British Agent at Bahrein [Bahrain]

4 images

Ref: IOR/R/15/1/175, ff 21-22

Letter from Captain James Felix Jones, I. N., Political Resident, Persian Gulf, Bushire, to Mahomed ben Khuleefa [Muḥammed bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah], Chief of Bahrein [Bahrain]

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/175, f 23

Letter No. 1 of 1860 from Lieutenant R. W. [name unreadable], Commanding H. M. Schooner [name unreadable] to Commander William Balfour, Senior Naval Officer Commanding Persian Gulf Squadron

2 images

Ref: IOR/R/15/1/175, f 24

Letter from Commander William Balfour, Senior Naval Officer Commanding Persian Gulf Squadron to Captain James Felix Jones, I. N., Political Resident, Persian Gulf, Bushire

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/175, ff 25-28

Letter No. 40 of 1860 from Captain James Felix Jones, I. N., Political Resident, Persian Gulf, Bushire, to Commander William Balfour, Senior Indian Naval Officer Commanding Persian Gulf Squadron

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Ref: IOR/R/15/1/175, f 30

Arrangement

The letters in the volume span the period from 9 Dec 1859 to 10 May 1860, but have been arranged by subject matter and are therefore not in chronological order.

The letters are divided into two sections (ff 3-11v and ff 14-30v), which are placed within covering sheets. On each of the covering sheets are summary accounts on the contents therein. Several of the letters also include summaries of the contents on the same sheet, often written in a different text direction and handwriting.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: There are two foliation sequences. The main one runs from the front cover to the back cover. It appears as a circled number, in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of the folio. This is the sequence followed when cataloguing this file. The second sequence is uncircled and begins on f 3 and terminates on f 31.

Condition: The items are on both A4 and A3 sheets (the latter folded in half), both previously folded smaller, and each folio has small holes punched along the folded/inner edge indicating they were previously bound, which do not impede the reading of the text.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Letter book

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/R/15/1/175

Former external reference(s)

Book 264

History of this record

Date(s)

9 Dec 1859-10 May 1860 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Piracy

People & organisations

Native Agent, BahrainNative Agent, Trucial Coast, SharjahKing of BahrainShaikh of DemaumSheikh of Bokha

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