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Letter no.440 of 1855 from Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay [187v] (6/6)
The record is made up of 3 folios. It was created in 13 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, enclosing a letter from Captain Arnold Kemball, Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. 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. , to Jones, dated 18 October 1855, itself a covering letter, with a letter sent by Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, British Ambassador in Constantinople, to Kemball, dated 19 September 1855. Lord Stratford’s letter commends Jones’s actions (in his previous capacity as Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. 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. ) in helping save and recover antiquities damaged on their journey from Mosul to Bussorah [Basra].
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Letter no.440 of 1855 from Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay [187v] (6/6), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 185-187, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023318563.0x0000ba> [accessed 4 February 2025]
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- IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 185-187
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- Letter no.440 of 1855 from Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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- 185r:187v
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