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The record is made up of 3 folios. It was created in 21 Oct 1852. 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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Covering letter with an enclosure, letter no.355 of 1852 from Kemball to Major Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty's Consul and the Honourable Company's Agent in the dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat, dated 18 October 1852. In his letter to Hamerton, Kemball writes of the apparent widespread sale and transport of plundered indigo from Muscat and its neighbouring towns, with has reached as far as Bahrain. Kemball also discusses the status of Fujeerah [Fujairah], whose possession is contested by the Imam of Muscat and Shaikh Sultan bin Saqr of Ra's al-Khaymah, and through which indigo has passed.

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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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IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 190-92

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21 Oct 1852 (CE, Gregorian)

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Letter no.361 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government Bombay, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 190-92, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024051547.0x000048> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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