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Letter from Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary...
Catalogue reference: IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 187-188
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- IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 187-188
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- Letter from 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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Date (When the record was created)
- 8 Oct 1850
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Description (What the record is about)
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Justin Sheil refers to Samuel Hennell's despatch of 3 September 1850, no. 340, in which Hennell described an interview with the Acting Governor of Bushire and a deputation of merchants, on the subject of the removal of Sheikh Nasir from the Government of that town. Sheil expresses his approval both of Hennell's conduct on that occasion and of Hennell's letter to the Prince Governor of Sheeraz [Shiraz]. Sheil assures Hennell that he does not consider it any part of his [Sheil's] duty to interfere in the matters between the Shah and his subjects.
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- British Library: Asian and African Studies
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- 2 folios
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Unrestricted
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/ec03f9a3-d222-4ede-b716-aecdbde16f73/
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IOR/R/15/1
Political Residency, Bushire
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This record is held at British Library: Asian and African Studies
Within the fonds: IOR/R
India Office Records transferred later through official channels
Within the sub-fonds: IOR/R/15
Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf
Within the series: IOR/R/15/1
Political Residency, Bushire
Within the sub-series: IOR/R/15/1/119-198
Political Residency, Bushire: correspondence bound in subject compilations
Within the sub-sub-series: IOR/R/15/1/119-144
Subject compilations: letters received and letters sent
Within the file: IOR/R/15/1/121
Vol 166: 1850 Persia
You are currently looking at the item: IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 187-188
Letter from 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