‘Turkish Arabia. Lieutenant Kemball to conduct temporarily the duties of the Political Agent in-’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Turkish Arabia. Lieutenant Kemball to conduct temporarily the duties of the Political Agent in-’
- Date:
- 1847/1848
- Description:
- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and notifications cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 31 January 1848. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details of further enclosures. The item is the fifty-second in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item relates to the return of Dr Arnold Burrowes Kemball to Bushire [Bushehr], following his temporary stay at Bagdad [Baghdad] where he filled in as Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] for Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson. Rawlinson’s praise for Kemball is reported to the governments of Bombay and India. The item also contains praise given to Doctor Campbell, Civil Surgeon, by Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf. Campbell had filled in for Kemball as Assistant Resident during his time in Bagdad.Correspondents include: Rawlinson; Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the governments of Bombay and India.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 345/48, Coll: 2, Vol: 52’, ‘Collection No. 8 of No. 21’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 569, and terminates at f 576, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Leave
Assistant to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf - Geographic region:
- Bagdad
Bushire - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098005202.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098005202.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2238/112373
IOR/F/4/2238/112373