Файл:‘Application of Mr Assistant Surgeon Campbell to be permitted to draw (with arrears) his field pay and allowances in addition to the salary he receives as being attached to His Royal Highness Prince Abbas Mirza in Persia’.jpg

English: This item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the governments of Bombay [Mumbai] and Bengal.

The item concerns the request of Assistant Surgeon James Drummond Campbell, of the Bombay Medical Establishment and attached to the service of Persian [Iranian] Crown Prince Abbass Mirza ['Abbās Mīrzā Qājār], to be permitted to draw his field pay and allowances in addition to his salary. It also contains details, cited for comparison, of three other East India Company surgeons employed outside of the territories administered by the Company: Surgeon John Cormick and Assistant Surgeon Richard Sharp, attached to the British Mission at the Court of Persia [Iran]; and Assistant Surgeon Charles Daw, attached to the army of the Nizam of Hyderabad.

The correspondence is mainly between the Government of Bengal, the Government of Bombay, and the East India Company Court of Directors. The other correspondents included are: Henry Russell, Resident at Hyderabad; William Brooks, Military Auditor General, Bombay; Henry Willock, Minister at the Court of Tehran; Assistant Surgeon Sharp; and Assistant Surgeon Campbell.

The title page (f 62) of the item contains the following references: ‘Political No. 12, 1819/20, Draft 100’ and ‘Examiner’s Office December 1818’.