Search

037-000227551 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

1011. IOR/R/15/1/143, ff 353-355

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/143, ff 353-355
Title:
Letter no.144 of 1854 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter relates to the purchase of two slaves by Indian British subjects at Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh] who are pilgrims on their way from India to Kerbelah [Karbalā']. The male and female slave in question were both dressed as women to avoid discovery, but landed by the nakhuda of the vessel in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Apr 1854
Extent:
3 folios

1012. IOR/R/15/1/143, ff 368-369

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/143, ff 368-369
Title:
Letter no.2324 of 1854 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The letter relates to the capture in 1853 of two slavers by the Honourable Company’s schooner Constance. The letter is a covering letter, enclosing an extract of paragraph 5 of despatch no.1 of 1854 (folio 369) from the Honourable Court of Directors, dated 1 March 1854. The extract states that, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1854
Extent:
2 folios

1013. IOR/R/15/1/143, ff 370-371

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/143, ff 370-371
Title:
Letter no.138 of 1855 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The letter is related to the capture in 1853 of two slavers by the Honourable Company’s schooner Constance. The letter is a covering letter, enclosing letter no.8 of 1855 (folio 371) from Lawford Acland, Acting Honourable Company’s Solicitor, to Anderson, dated 4 January 1855. Acland’s letter rep...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1855
Extent:
2 folios

1014. IOR/R/15/1/143, ff 372-377

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/143, ff 372-377
Title:
Letter no.230 of 1854 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter relates to the import of slaves into the Persian port of Charrack [Bandar-e Chārak] last season, and arrangements to ensure that Shaikh Hassan ben Abdullah of Bandar-e Chārak fulfils the terms of the bond executed by him. The following enclosures are included with Kemball’s letter: 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jun 1854
Extent:
6 folios

1015. IOR/R/15/1/149, f 6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/149, f 6
Title:
Letter no.122 of 1855 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter relates to the late despatch to Bombay of manumitted slaves from the Gulf. Kemball writes to account for the current delay in sending a number of slaves to Bombay. Enclosed with Kemball’s letter (not included in the volume) was a letter from Lieutenant Alexander Foulerton, Senior Naval...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1855
Extent:
1 folio

1016. IOR/R/15/1/149, f 14

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/149, f 14
Title:
Letter no.205 of 1855 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter is a reply to Anderson’s earlier letter (folio 11), which enclosed an extract of a despatch from the Court of Directors, enquiring after the fate of a number of slaves found on a bugulah [buggalow, or boat] in the Persian Gulf. Kemball writes to state that the slaves in question were ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1855
Extent:
1 folio

1017. IOR/R/15/1/149, f 172

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/149, f 172
Title:
Letter no.412 of 1855 from Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter is a request for instructions from the Resident as to the extent of his (and his Political Agents’) jurisdiction in relation to notarial affairs. Jones writes that Britain has two consular agents in Persia, but that he, as the Resident at Bushire, is distinct from these individuals, an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Nov 1855
Extent:

1 folio

1018. IOR/R/15/1/149, f 173

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/149, f 173
Title:
Letter no.5393 of 1855 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Commander Felix Jones, Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The letter is a reply to Jones’s query over the extent of his jurisdictive powers at Bushire (folio 172). Anderson refers Jones to a letter sent to one of his predecessors, Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, which stated that granting the Resident consular jurisdiction would be inconsistent with...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1855
Extent:
1 folio

1019. IOR/R/15/1/149, f 188

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/149, f 188
Title:
Letter no.459 of 1855 from Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter is a covering letter, the original of which enclosed for the Governor in Council’s information, a copy of a letter addressed to Jones from Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, dated 27 October. The enclosure is not included in the volume.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1855
Extent:
1 folio

1020. IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 3-4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 3-4
Title:
Letter no.49 of 1855 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter and its enclosure relate to the slave trade on the Arab coast. Enclosed with Kemball’s letter is the translation of a letter (folio 4) from Shaikh Sultan bin Suggar [Sultan bin Saqr], the Joasmee [Qāsimī] ruler, to Kemball, dated 31 December 1854. In his letter Shaikh Sultan states tha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1855
Extent:
2 folios