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Letter no.430 of 1855 from Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay [‎184v] (6/6)

The record is made up of 3 folios. It was created in 10 Dec 1855. It was written in English. The original is part of the 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. .

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The letter is a covering letter with notes, relating to the circumstances surrounding Jones’s transfer from his role as Government Agent and Consul-General at Baghdad, to Resident at Bushire. The enclosure is a copy of a letter (folio 184) from Captain Arnold Kemball, Consul-General at Baghdad to Jones, dated 18 October 1855, itself enclosing a copy of a letter (folio 184v) from the Director General to Kemball, dated 27 August 1855. This letter confirms Jones’s appointment to the position of Agent to the Land Transport Corps in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. , at around the same time as Jones was transferred to Bushire.

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Letter no.430 of 1855 from Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay [‎184v] (6/6), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 182-184, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023318563.0x0000b4> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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