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891. IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 190-191

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 190-191
Title:
Letter no.145 of 1856 from Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter relates to the forthcoming season’s slave trade between East Africa and the Gulf. Jones writes that most vessels returning with slaves land their cargo at Soor [Ṣūr] or points further south, and then march slaves overland to the Arab coast, in order to avoid British patrols. Jones rec...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Apr 1856
Extent:
2 folios

892. IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 193-200

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 193-200
Title:
Letter no.168 of 1856 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 an additional engagement to the existing slave trade treaty signed by the British Government and various Arab coast rulers, obliging the rulers to do everything in their power to seize and deliver up to the British any slaves found to have been imported in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 May 1856
Extent:
8 folios

893. IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 202-207

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 202-207
Title:
Letter no.3976 of 1856 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Commander Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The letter and its enclosures are a response to Jones’s previous letter announcing an additional engagement signed with the Shaikhs of the Arab coast for the suppression of the slave trade, and Jones’s own recommendations for better prosecution of the slave trade in the Gulf. Anderson requests c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Aug 1856
Extent:
6 folios

894. IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 208-209

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 208-209
Title:
Letter no.257 of 1856 from Commander Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter is part of Jones’s continuing discussion with the Government in Bombay about measures to suppress the maritime slave trade from Zanzibar to the Gulf. The letter contains discussion what Jones calls the lack of ‘moral responsibility’ of traders carrying slaves from Zanzibar; the payment...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1856
Extent:
2 folios

895. IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 212-213

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 212-213
Title:
Letter no.1175 of 1857 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Commander Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The letter and its enclosure relates to an incident in 1856 in which an African slave detained in Ras-ool-Khyma [Ra’s al-Khaymah] was released from slavery and sent to the Presidency in order to return to his own country. The enclosure is an extract of paragraph 8 of 1857 from despatch no.8 of 18...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1857
Extent:
2 folios

896. IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 214-216

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 214-216
Title:
Letter no.240 of 1856 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 the Shaikh of Ras-el-Khyma [Ra’s al-Khaymah], Sultan bin Suggur [Sultan bin Saqr], and the British, over the importation of slaves into the Arabian peninsula. Jones writes that Shaikh Sultan has complained about his treatment by the Britis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1856
Extent:
3 folios

897. IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 218-219

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 218-219
Title:
Letter no.1177 of 1857 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Commander Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The letter and its enclosure relate to a complaint made by Shaikh Sultan bin Suggur [Sultan bin Saqr], the ruler of Ra’s al-Khaymah, of his unfair treatment at the hands of British officials in relation to prosecution for the slave trade in the region. Enclosed with the letter is an extract of pa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1857
Extent:
2 folios

898. IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 220-255

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 220-255
Title:
Letter no.238 of 1856 from Commander Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter and its enclosures relate to the results of the season’s efforts to suppress the slave trade on the Persian and Arab coasts. Topics covered include: willingness of some of the Arab Shaikhs to follow the new slave trade suppression treaty; resistance to measures on the Persian coast, a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Aug 1856
Extent:
35 folios

899. IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 256-264

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 256-264
Title:
Letter no.276 of 1856 from Commander Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter and its enclosures relate to the actions of the British Agent at Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh], Moolla Ahmed, understood to have exceeded his responsibilities in the seizure of two slaves at Bandar-e Lengeh, and Jones’s efforts to prevent a diplomatic dispute with the Persian authorities. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Sep 1856
Extent:
9 folios

900. IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 265-266

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 265-266
Title:
Letter no.308 of 1856 from Commander Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter is a covering letter, enclosing letter no.189 of 1856 (folio 266) from Commodore Richard Ethersey, Commanding Officer Persian Gulf Squadron, to Jones, dated 10 September 1856. Ethersey’s letter concerns the despatch of 59 slaves retrieved from trading vessels to Bombay on board the Vic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Oct 1856
Extent:
2 folios