‘ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY’ Vol 15

Dispatches no. 570, and 94 to 103, plus attached enclosures from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle. Dispatch 102 is missing from this collection.

• Despatch number 570: Secret Department: enclosures to a letter to the Secretary at East India House, dated 1 August 1839 (ff 3-6)
• Despatch number 94: Printed papers and a letter on the abolition by the Chinese Government of the trafficking of opium and the suspension of foreign trade at the port of Canton (ff 7-26)
• Despatch number 96: Abstract of contents of despatch to the Secret Committee Pre-1784, the Committee responsible for protecting East India Company shipping. Post-1784, its main role was to transmit communications between the Board of Control and the Company's Indian governments on matters requiring secrecy. , dated 1 September 1839 (ff 27-267)
• Despatch number 97: Proceedings on the works in the harbour and at the fort of Bombay (ff 268-294)
• Despatch number 98: Abstract of contents of proceedings before the judicial commissioner on the prisoners' trial for a disturbance in Deccan (ff 295-297)
• Despatch number 99: Abstract of contents of proceedings regarding an attack on the Malwan Treasury on 22 March 1839 (ff 298-305)
• Despatch number 100: Proceedings and despatches on Aden in 1839 (ff 306-444)
• Despatch number 101: Papers regarding Monsieur Lederer, who was prevented from travelling to Bussorah [Basra] (ff 445-449)
• Despatch number 103: Proceedings and despatches on Karrack, 1839 (ff 450-635).

The entries are arranged approximately in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 637; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.