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811. IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 18-19

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 18-19
Title:
Letter no.3500 of 1855 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The letter and its enclosure relate to naval resources in the Persian Gulf for use in the suppression of the slave trade. Anderson encloses a letter addressed to Lord Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor and President in Council in Bombay, from Rear Admiral Sir Henry Leeke, Commander in Chief of the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Aug 1855
Extent:
2 folios

812. IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 25-26

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 25-26
Title:
Letter no.213 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 discovery and rescue in 1853 of a female Somali slave at Muscat, and Kemball’s subsequent efforts to seek the Governor (Imam) of Muscat to punish the subjects of Soor [Sur], believed to be involved in the purchase of the girl. Enclosed with Kemball’s let...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jun 1855
Extent:
2 folios

813. IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 31-37

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 31-37
Title:
Duplicate letter no.5078 of 1855 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The letter is a covering letter, enclosing written guidance on how to deal in future with slaves who have absconded from Bushire, taken service in the Indian Navy, and then returned as a crew member to Bushire. The letter has two enclosures. The first is letter no.43 of 1855 (folios 32-36) from ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1855
Extent:
7 folios

814. IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 40-44

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 40-44
Title:
Letter no.18 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 enclosures relate to the relations between Shaikh Mahomed bin Khuleefa [Muḥammad bin Khalīfah] of Bahrain, and the Wahabee [Wahhābī] chief Ameer Fysul [Fayṣal ibn Turki Āl Sa‘ūd]. In his Kemball letter states that Shaikh Muḥammad has asked that he be allowed to act against Fay...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jan 1855
Extent:
5 folios

815. IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 46-48

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 46-48
Title:
Letter no.248 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 an covering letter, enclosing a report from the British Agent at Bahrain. The report (folios 47-48), written by the Bahrain Native Agent Hajee Jassim [Hajjī Jāsim] to Kemball, dated 8 April 1855, discusses an expedition by a relative of the chief of Koweit [Kuwait], against members...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jul 1855
Extent:
3 folios

816. IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 51-58

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 51-58
Title:
Letter no.393 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 and its enclosures relate to hostilities between Bahrain and the Al bin Ali tribe based at Demaum [Dammām], having migrated from the island of Geis or Kenn [Kīsh]. Jones writes that, in light of the maritime hostilities, the only course open to him was to insist that the Al bin Ali tr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Nov 1855
Extent:
8 folios

817. IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 59-68

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 59-68
Title:
Letter no.464 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 and its enclosures relate to relations between Bahrain, Damaum [Dammām], and the Al bin Ali tribe, based at Dammām, and is a continuation of negotiations discussed by Jones in an earlier letter (folios 51-52). Jones writes that he now considers the Shaikh of Dammām to be the real inst...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1855
Extent:
10 folios

818. IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 71-72

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 71-72
Title:
Letter no.54 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 relates to the Resident’s response to acts of piracy (including the plunder of indigo from the British vessel Centaur) by the subjects of the chief of Jaalan. Kemball writes that has written a letter to Mahomed bin Ali Beni Boo Ali, chief of Jaalan (copy, dated 5 Febr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Feb 1855
Extent:
2 folios

819. IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 85-86

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 85-86
Title:
Letter no.217 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 covering letter, relating to previous correspondence sent to the chief of Jaalan, in relation to acts of piracy alleged to have been committed by his subjects. Enclosed with Kemball’s letter is the translation of a letter (folio 86) from Shaikh Mahomed bin Alee [Muḥammad bin Ali],...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1855
Extent:
2 folios

820. IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 98-110

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 98-110
Title:
Letter no.243 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 enclosures relate to hostilities taking place around Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi], the efforts of representatives from the Persian Gulf Naval Squadron to locate the perpetrators of the acts of piracy involved, and the deposition of the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi, Sa’id bin Tahnoon, and his...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jul 1855
Extent:
13 folios