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11. IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 36-39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 36-39
Title:
Letter no.5316 of 1853 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government of Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The letter and its enclosures relate to the introduction of registers to Arab and Persian trading vessels visiting the port of Kurrachee [Karāchi]. Malet acknowledges receipt of Kemball’s earlier letters and encloses a number of items, as follows: Letter no.870 of 1853 (folios 37-38), a report f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1853
Extent:
4 folios

12. IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 11B-14

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 11B-14
Title:
Copy of Letter no.463 of 1852 from The Commissioner in Sind to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Falkland, Governor and President in Council in Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter and its enclosures relate to the illegal trade of opium from the Arabian and Persian coasts into Sind, frequently on American vessels. Concern about the trade is based on the fact that opium from these areas is lower in price than that from Bombay, and may therefore adversely affect t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1852
Extent:
4 folios

13. IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 15-17

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 15-17
Title:
Copy of letter no.2393 of 1853 from the Secretary to Government, Territorial Department Revenue, to Major Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty’s Consul at Muscat
Scope & Content:
The letter and its enclosures relate to the opium trade at Muscat. The letter is a covering letter as well as a request for further information on the trade (arranged behind the letters it encloses, at folio 17), enclosing a copy of letter no.85 of 1853 (folios 15-16) from The Commissioner in Si...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1853
Extent:
3 folios

14. IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 18-20

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 18-20
Title:
Letter no.165 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Edward Goldsmid, Secretary to the Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter contains a report by Kemball on the opium trade in the Gulf, with information on the key points of export from Persia to Muscat: Bushire, Mohumrah [Khorramshahr] and Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]; importance of Muscat as an entrepôt; estimated quantities by weight of opium exported e...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1853
Extent:

3 folios

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