Letter No. 440A: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran
IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 207-208
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The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 28 Nov 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 Sheik Houssein's appeal for Samuel Hennell to be present at a meeting between the Sheik and the Sirteep, Moostufa Kooly Khan, on board the HC steam frigate Auckland. Hennell reports that he is prepared to obtain Commodore John Patterson Porter's consent for the Sheik and the Sirteep to meet on board the Auckland, but that he has declined the Sheik's request for his presence, on the grounds that he has orders from his own Government not to mix himself up in the internal affairs of this country.
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Letter No. 440A: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 207-208, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024051546.0x000053> [accessed 2 February 2025]
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- IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 207-208
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- Letter No. 440A: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran
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- 207r:208v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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