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IOR/F/4/1990/88113

Record Id:

041-000754574

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-000754572

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000344.0x00010f

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100109208823.0x000002

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

IOR/F/4/1990/88113

Title:

‘Relating to the Slave Trade Vol: 2’

Scope & Content:

This item consists of copies of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Board of Control of the East India Company; the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen; Ali bin Nasir, an envoy from the Imam of Muscat; Sayyid Sa‘id bin Sultan Al Bu Sa’id, the Imam of Muscat. It is the second in a series of two items on the trade in enslaved people (the other is IOR/F/4/1990/88112).

The item contains the correspondence between the Earl of Aberdeen and Ali bin Nasir during the latter’s embassy to London on behalf of the Imam of Muscat.

The item concerns:

The limits on the trade in enslaved people which the British Government wished the Imam of Muscat to impose in his territories
Complaints from the British that the Imam had not fulfilled his treaty obligations
Complaints from the Imam that the British had not fulfilled their treaty obligations.

The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 227, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3822A, [Season 18]43’.

Collection Area:

India Office Records and Private Papers

Project / Collection:

India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-000735919
036-000736052
040-000754572
041-000754574

Is part of:

IOR/F : Records of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India
IOR/F/4 : Board's Collections
IOR/F/4/1990 : Board's Collections Vol 1990 nos 88112 to 88200

IOR/F/4/1990/88113 : ‘Relating to the Slave Trade Vol: 2’

Hierarchy:

032-000735919[0004]/036-000736052[1994]/040-000754572[0002]/041-000754574

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/F

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

1 item (25 folios)

Digitised Content:

https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000344.0x00010f

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Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1842

End Date:

1842

Date Range:

19 Jun 1842-31 Dec 1842

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 252 and terminates at f 276, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.

Pagination: the volume also contains an original pagination sequence.

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