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2. IOR/R/15/1/127 f 20
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/1/127 f 20
- Title:
- Letter no.207 of 1851 from Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Commodore J. P. Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf
- Scope & Content:
- Hennell acknowledges receipt of Porter's previous letter, expressing regret that Lt Leeds' report suggests that all the vessels arriving back on the Batinah Coast from Zanzibar with slaves had arrived prior to the arrival of the Honourable Company's schooner Constance.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 26 Jun 1851
- Extent:
- 1 folio
3. IOR/R/15/1/127 f 17
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/1/127 f 17
- Title:
- Copy of a letter from Lord Palmerston to the Right Honourable John Hobhouse
- Scope & Content:
- Palmerston writes that he has learnt with satisfaction of the permission granted by the Sultan of Muscat for the British to carry out suppression of the slave trade in his East African dominions. The original letter enclosed printed copies of the protocol agreed with the Portuguese government for...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 18 Sep 1850
- Extent:
- 1 folio
4. IOR/R/15/1/127
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/1/127
- Title:
- 1851/52 Residency in the Persian Gulf English Correspondence No.7 Slave Trade
- Scope & Content:
- The file contains correspondence sent to and from the Persian Gulf Residency (the Resident at the time being Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell), concerning the slave trade between the coast of East Africa and the Persian Gulf, and Britain's maritime efforts to suppress it. The main correspondent...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 21 Jan 1851-31 Dec 1851
- Extent:
- 1 file, 20 items (41 folios)
5. IOR/R/15/1/127 f 21
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/1/127 f 21
- Title:
- Letter no.211 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay
- Scope & Content:
- Covering letter, enclosing a copy of correspondence (not included in the file) from Commodore J P Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, itself enclosing an extract from a letter written by the Officer Commanding the Honourable Company schooner Constance, reporting the return to the Batinah Co...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 28 Jun 1851
- Extent:
- 1 folio
6. IOR/R/15/1/127 f 22
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/1/127 f 22
- Title:
- Letter no.229 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Lt-Col Justin Sheil, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Council of Persia
- Scope & Content:
- Hennell informs Sheil that amongst those vessels deployed in the slave trade by inhabitants of the Arab coast, was a bugla [boat] from a Persian port ('Mogoo'), which landed sixty slaves on the Persian coast.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 9 Jul 1851
- Extent:
- 1 folio
7. IOR/R/15/1/127 f 26
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/1/127 f 26
- Title:
- Letter no.431 of 1851 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay, to Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf
- Scope & Content:
- Acknowledging receipt of Hennell's previous letters concerning the slave trade, Malet expresses regret that arrangements had not been made earlier for the Honourable Company's schooner Constance to be on the Batinah Coast in time to check the season's slave trade, requesting that future arrangeme...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 29 Sep 1851
- Extent:
- 1 folio
8. IOR/R/15/1/127 f 29
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/1/127 f 29
- Title:
- Letter no.273 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
- Scope & Content:
- Covering letter accompanying an extract of correspondence (not included) from Lt Leeds to Commodore Porter, on the reasons for the failure to intercept vessels returning from East Africa to the Arab coast with slaves this season, and of the two slave boys landed by the Honourable Company's schoon...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 25 Aug 1851
- Extent:
- 1 folio
9. IOR/R/15/1/127 f 42
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/1/127 f 42
- Title:
- Extract from a despatch from the Honourable the Secret Committee, along with an extract of a letter from Lord Palmerston to Lt-Col Justin Sheil, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia
- Scope & Content:
- Palmerston's letter instructs Sheil to make arrangements with the Persian Government for Persian officers to be placed with Her Majesty's and East India Company ships, to assist in the searching of Persian vessels. Palmerston recommends that suitable persons be based at Bushire, and requests that...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 6 Nov 1851
- Extent:
- 1 folio
10. IOR/R/15/1/127 ff 18-19
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/1/127 ff 18-19
- Title:
- Letter no.164 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Commodore J. P. Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf
- Scope & Content:
- Covering letter to an enclosure: a translated extract of a letter from Moollah Houssein [Mullā Husayn], the British agent at Sharjah, to Hennell, dated 28 May 1851. In his report, Houssein states that he knows all those boats on the Trucial coast departing for Africa, and describes the methods th...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 28 May 1851
- Extent:
- 2 folios