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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 [15r] (1/6)
The record is made up of 3 folios. It was created in 25 Apr 1853. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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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 Sind, to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Falkland, Governor and President in Council in Bombay, dated 15 March 1853. This letter is also a covering letter, enclosing a copy of a letter from the Deputy Collector of Customs (dated 8 March 1853) on the subject of the accuracy of claims regarding the illegal trade of opium between Persia and America. Attached to the Deputy Collector’s letter is a statement made by a Banian Merchant of Indian extraction. (Indian) trader from Muscat, dated 28 February 1853, in which claims of American involvement in the Muscat opium trade are made.
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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 [15r] (1/6), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 15-17, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023506099.0x000020> [accessed 4 May 2024]
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- IOR/R/15/1/137, ff 15-17
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- 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
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- 15r:17v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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