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Letter no.84 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government Bombay [‎230v] (8/10)

The record is made up of 5 folios. It was created in 7 Apr 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) A letter (f 229) from Colonel Justin Sheil, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at the Court of Persia, to Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, dated 3 January 1852, discussing a report of seventy slaves landed at Mohemera [Khorramshahr] by a Hindu crew. Sheil doubts the authenticity of the report, requesting that enquiries be made to the Agent at Bassorah [Basra] on the issue;

2) Letter no. 81 of 1852 (f 230) from Kemball to Sheil, dated 6 April 1852, reporting the Basra Agent's response to enquiries regarding the importation of seventy slaves at Mohumrah [Khorramshahr];

3) Letter (f 231) from John Taylor, Acting Agent at Basra, to Hennell, dated 1 March 1852. Taylor reports that his intelligence suggests the rumours of seventy slaves being landed at Khorramshahr by Hindus are unfounded.

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Letter no.84 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government Bombay [‎230v] (8/10), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 227-31, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024051738.0x00005c> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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