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Letter no.259 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government Bombay [‎47r] (5/10)

The record is made up of 5 folios. It was created in 10 Aug 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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1) Letter no.258 of 1852 (ff 47-49) from Kemball to Major Atkins Hamerton, His Majesty's Consul and Honourable Company's Agent in the dominions of His Highness the Imaum of Muscat, dated 10 August 1852. Kemball states that through intelligence received by the British agent at Bahrain, Hajee Jassim (second enclosure, f 49), it has come to his attention that the Imam of Muscat is exchanging correspondence with Abbas Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , viceroy of Egypt. Kemball suspects that these exchanges are in turn influenced by Egyptian relations with the Wahhabis, and requests Hamerton make enquiries as to the precise nature of the Imam of Muscat's intentions in his relations with Egypt;

2) A translated extract of a letter (f 49) from Hajee Jassim, the British agent at Bahrain, to Kemball, dated 26 July, in which Jassim reports that a follower of Abbas Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , viceroy of Egypt, has arrived in Bahrain by boat, en route to Muscat, with 12 camels to be presented from Abbas Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. to the Imam of Muscat.

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Letter no.259 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government Bombay [‎47r] (5/10), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 45-49, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024051736.0x00006d> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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