Vol 192: Letters Outward (Squadron, Persian Gulf)

Title:

Vol 192: Letters Outward (Squadron, Persian Gulf)

Date:

1854/1854

Description:

Abstract: This file consists almost entirely of letters written by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to the Commander of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf, Bassidore [Bāsa‘īdū]. The Resident at this time was Arnold Burrowes Kemball; the Commander of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf during this period was Commodore George Robinson.In addition, this file includes a small number of letters addressed by Kemball to the following East India Company ship commanders: Lieutenant William Balfour, Commander of HC steam frigate Acbar; Lieutenant David Rose Dakers, Commander of the HC brigantine Tigris; Captain William Charles Barker, Commander of HC steam frigate Ajdaha; Captain John William Young, Commander of HC steam frigate Queen. Some of these letters appear as enclosures to Kemball's letters to Robinson; other letters appear as letters in their own right.Other enclosures within the principal letters include translations of letters received from the following correspondents: Sheikh Sultan ben Suggur [Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qāsimī], Chief of Rasul Khymah [Ra's al-Khaymah]; Hajee Yacoob [Hajji Yaqoob], Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]; Moolla Ahmed, Agent at Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh]; Hajee Haji Jassim [Hajji Jasim, also referred to in secondary sources as Hajji Abu'l Qasim]. There are also a small number of enclosed letters which are written by Herbert Frederick Disbrowe, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf.Subjects discussed in correspondence include: the movements of East India Company ships within the Gulf; Britain's political relations with Persia; the alleged misappropriation of monies recovered from offenders by Hajee Yacoob, Native Agent at Shargah; relations between rulers along the Arab coast; a siege on Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] by Persian forces; the liberation of slaves imported from Africa into various ports in the Gulf; the shipping of liberated slaves from Bassidore to the Bombay Presidency; hostilities between the Chiefs of Bahrein [Bahrain] and their relatives residing at Demaum [Ad-Dammān]; British responses to acts of piracy.Physical description: Condition: The first five folios of this file have suffered from severe insect damage, which has resulted in some of the text being lost. Some of the folios later on in the file have suffered from water damage, which has made some of the text illegible.Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is written in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It should be noted that the following anomalies are present in the sequence: f 1 is followed by f 1A; f 111 is followed by f 111A; f 112 is followed by f 112A. Also present are letters and numbers written in blue crayon, which belong to an internal referencing sequence. The aforementioned foliation sequence is the sequence which has been used by this catalogue to reference items within the file.

Language:

English

Type:

Letter book

Type (Narrower):

Letters

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Slave emancipation
Queen, sloop
Tigris, ship

Geographic region:

Bunder Abbas
Demaum

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000193.0x000072_ar
81055/vdc_100000000193.0x000072_en
IOR/R/15/1/141
IOR/R/15/1/141

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