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Letter from His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister...

Catalogue reference: IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 191-192

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IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 191-192
Title
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
Date
15 Oct 1850
Description

Justin Sheil asks Samuel Hennell to provide him with the ostensible reason for Sheikh Nasir's dismissal [from the position of Governor of Bushire]. He also asks Hennell whether he thinks the dismissal is in any degree connected with the friendship that existed between Hennell and Sheikh Nasir.

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British Library: Asian and African Studies
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English
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2 folios
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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