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IOR/L/PS/5/413, ff 388-547
- Record Id:
- 041-003469227
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000538832
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100090074393.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100129648765.0x000006
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/5/413, ff 388-547
- Title:
- The Mission to Shoa
- Scope & Content:
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This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 115 of 1842, dated 15 October 1842. The enclosures are dated 4 July to 14 October 1842, and relate to the mission to Shoa [Shewa].
The enclosures consist of: dispatches from Captain William Cornwallis Harris, on a special mission at the Court of Shoa, to John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government of Bombay; and a letter from Willoughby to Thomas Herbert Maddock, Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General.
The enclosures contain the following: reports by Harris on the proceedings of the mission under his charge; a report by Harris on the state of slavery and the 'slave trade' [trade in enslaved people] within and beyond Abyssinia [the Ethiopian Empire], which includes a sketch map entitled ‘Sketch delineative of the ROUTES OF SLAVE-CARAVANS through Abyssinia to the shores of ARABIA.’ (folio 517); distribution lists of presents; and correspondence regarding the expedience of the continuance of the mission for a longer period.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000538832
037-000539208
040-000539259
041-003469227 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/5 : Secret Correspondence with India
IOR/L/PS/5/363-509 : Enclosures to Secret Letters from Bombay
IOR/L/PS/5/413 : ‘ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY’, Vol 51
IOR/L/PS/5/413, ff 388-547 : The Mission to Shoa - Contains:
- IOR/L/PS/5/413, f 517 : ‘Sketch delineative of the ROUTES OF SLAVE-CARAVANS through Abyssinia to the shores of ARABIA.’
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- 032-000538283[0005]/036-000538832[0013]/037-000539208[0051]/040-000539259[0007]/041-003469227
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (160 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100129648765.0x000006
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1842
- End Date:
- 1842
- Date Range:
- 15 Oct 1842
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- No. 115 of 1842
- Arrangement:
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There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-8, on folios 389-391. These numbers are repeated for reference on the last verso of each enclosure.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)