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Turkish Arabia Affairs

Catalogue reference: IOR/L/PS/5/451, ff 129-132

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This record is about the Turkish Arabia Affairs dating from 30 Sep 1847.

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Reference
IOR/L/PS/5/451, ff 129-132
Title
Turkish Arabia Affairs
Date
30 Sep 1847
Description

This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 83 of 1847, dated 30 September 1847. The enclosure is dated 7 August 1847. The primary document is a letter from Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Acting Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], to the Secretary to the Government, Bombay, for the information of the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department. Kemball reports that, according to a letter from Lord Cowley, HM Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople [Istanbul], to Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, HM Consul and the Honourable Company's Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, the Ottoman Porte [Government of the Ottoman Empire] has issued instructions to the Governor of Baghdad to suspend the operation of the new passport code regulations, as far as British subjects are concerned, for one year. An extract of Lord Cowley's letter is enclosed.

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British Library: Asian and African Studies
Former department reference
No. 83 of 1847
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
1 item (4 folios)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/97d4562f-bc1b-4188-b54f-9a4df16a8cec/

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IOR/L/PS/5

Secret Correspondence with India

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'ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY', Vol 89

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Turkish Arabia Affairs