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Letter from the Imam of Muscat to Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign...
Catalogue reference: IOR/L/PS/5/395, ff 31-38
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- IOR/L/PS/5/395, ff 31-38
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Title (The name of the record)
- Letter from the Imam of Muscat to Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with Enclosures.
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Date (When the record was created)
- c 17 Jun 1841
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Description (What the record is about)
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This item consists of two translated copies of a letter from the Imam of Muskat [Muscat], Saeed Seyed bin Sultan [Sayyid Sa'īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa'īd], also spelled Syeed Saeed Bin Sooltan in this item] to Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated 1 May 1841, with enclosures. The letter relates to the Imam's concerns over activities of the French. He states that on his arrival at Zanzibar, he deputed a man to Noosbeh [Nosy Be] and to the Sucklabahs [Sakalava people] 'to watch the proceedings of the French'. The enclosures consist of copies of the following: a letter from the French Consul who had come to Zanzibar to Khumis bin Oosman; two letters from Smekhoo [Tsiomeko, also spelled Smeekoo in this item], Queen of the Sukalavas, to the Imam of Muscat, and a copy of a treaty between Smeekoo, her Ambassador, and the Imam of Muscat, placing all the Sukalavas as subjects under the authority of the Imam of Muscat. The letters were enclosed in a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 49 of 1841, c 17 June 1841.
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- British Library: Asian and African Studies
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- No. 49 of 1841
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- 1 item (8 folios)
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/264b8079-7138-4014-9a27-27e58e09a3d2/
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IOR/L/PS/5
Secret Correspondence with India
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This record is held at British Library: Asian and African Studies
Within the fonds: IOR/L/PS
Political and Secret Department Records
Within the series: IOR/L/PS/5
Secret Correspondence with India
Within the sub-series: IOR/L/PS/5/363-509
Enclosures to Secret Letters from Bombay
Within the file: IOR/L/PS/5/395
'ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY', Vol 33.
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Letter from the Imam of Muscat to Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with Enclosures.