Letter no.1255 of 1855 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is a covering letter, enclosing a letter received by Anderson from Major Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty’s Consul and the Honourable Company’s Agent in the dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat, dated 9 August 1854 (folios 215-16). In his letter Hamerton writes that the Beni boo Al...
Letter no.1258 of 1855 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is a covering letter, relating to the shipwreck and plunder of the cargo vessel Fath-el-Khymer off the Oman coast. The letter encloses an extract of paragraph 23 from a despatch from the Honourable Court of Directors (folio 218), dated 17 of January 1855. The despatch acknowledges the ...
Letter no.3980 of 1854 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is an acknowledgement of receipt of Kemball’s earlier letter (folios 219-20) relating to the question of responsibility over the retrieval of indigo from the shipwrecked and plundered vessel Centaur. Anderson writes that the Government approves of Kemball’s letter to the Insurance Com...
Letter no.205 of 1854 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter and its enclosures relate to recent Persian Gulf squadron reports from the Arab and Persian coasts. The first report concerns the payment without protest of damages by the Shaikh of Ejmam [Ajman] to the inhabitants of a village on the island of Kishm [Qeshm], after the plunder of prop...
Letter no. 236 of 1854 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter relates to the grounding off the Shatel Arab [Shatt al-Arab], at the mouth of the Euphrates, of the Honourable Company’s packet steamship Firoze. Kemball encloses to Anderson a letter (folio 234) received from Commander Drought, commanding officer of the Firoze, dated 14 June 1854. In ...
Letter no.4381 of 1854 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is an acknowledgement of receipt of Kemball’s earlier letter (folio 233) relating to the grounding of the Honourable Company’s packet steamship Firoze on the Shatt al-Arab. Anderson writes that the Government approves of Kemball’s proceedings in the matter, and that His Lordship in Co...
Letter no.1844 of 1855 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter relates to gifts purchased by the Government for the Shaikh of Kuwait, as reward for the assistance he offered to the stricken British packet Firoze in June 1854. Anderson writes that the gifts have now been purchased, and are being sent to the Gulf on the Honourable Company’s sloop Fa...
Letter no.13 of 1855 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter is a covering letter, enclosing the translation of a report (folios 266-68) of statistical information, sent to Kemball by the British Agent at Sharjah, dated 15 November 1854. The statistical report relates to the Government of India’s request for information on the principal estates...
Circular no.712 of 1854 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government of Bombay, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The circular is a reminder from Government that all Political Officers under the Supreme Government are required to submit to Government details of British relations with native states in their sphere of influence, by the end of 1853. The circular encloses a copy of circular no.345 of 1854 (foli...
Letter no.3581 of 1854 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter and its enclosure relates to the harassment and insults directed at the British Agent Hajjī Yaqoob in Sharjah in 1853. The letter is a covering letter, enclosing an extract of paragraph 46 of letter no.13 (folio 277) from the Honourable Court of Directors, dated 27 April 1854, in which...
