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Letter from His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran, to Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire [81v] (4/12)
The record is made up of 6 folios. It was created in 10 Jun 1850. 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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This letter concerns complaints made against the Agent at Shiraz, Meerza Mahmood, and the origins of a gold watch which was recently sold by him. Justin Sheil disagrees with Samuel Hennell's opinion that the complaints, made by Mahomed Hoosein and Meerza Ahmed Khan respectively, are without any foundation and disputes Hennell's suggestion that their letters are not genuine. Sheil refers to Meerza Ahmed Khan's letter to Hennell, in which Meerza Ahmed Khan denied having made complaints against the Agent; Sheil suggests that Meerza Ahmed Khan has been bribed, cajoled or frightened into issuing a denial. Sheil encloses a copy of two letters (not included), dated 2 December 1848, from Meerza Mahmood, in which the Agent apparently states that a watch that he had received from Moolla Mehdee was stolen while it was being transported across Shiraz for safekeeping. Sheil writes that it will give him great satisfaction if Meerza Mahmood can relieve himself of the heavy suspicion that the transaction has placed him under and he requests that Hennell point this out to the Agent.
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Letter from His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran, to Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire [81v] (4/12), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 80-85, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023513886.0x0000a5> [accessed 25 March 2025]
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- Letter from His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran, to Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
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