‘Vol 182 1852/53 Persia; Slave Trade; Muscat; Commerce; miscellaneous’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Vol 182 1852/53 Persia; Slave Trade; Muscat; Commerce; miscellaneous’
- Contributor:
- King of Bahrain (correspondent)
Political Agent and Consul, Zanzibar (correspondent)
Sir Knight Arnold Burrowes Kemball (correspondent)
Samuel Hennell (correspondent) - Date:
- 1852/1852
- Description:
- The volume contains copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence for the Persian Gulf Residency. At the start of 1852 Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell is Resident, before being superseded by Captain Arnold Kemball. Correspondence in the volume falls under the following headings:Persia, Basra and Baghdad (folios 2-4);The Persian Gulf slave trade (folios 6-8);Correspondence with the Muscat Political Agent (folios 10-23);Commerce (folios 25-39);Miscellaneous items (folios 40-51).1 volume, 38 items (57 folios)The correspondence in the volume has been grouped under a number of headings: 1) 1852/53 Persia, Busrah [Basra], Baghdad; 2) 1852/53 Slave Trade; 3) 1852/53 Muscat; 4) 1852/53 Commerce. Each set of correspondence has its own title page. The correspondence under each heading has been arranged chronologically, from the earliest first (January 1852) to the latest last. A fifth, unnamed, category sits at the end of the file, identified in the file catalogue title as 'miscellaneous'.Foliation: There is an original pagination sequence, which is written in ink, in the top right of each recto and the top left of each verso. There is one foliation sequence, which is written in pencil, in the top right corner of each folio. The sequence begins on the title page, on number 1, and runs through to 52, ending on the inside of the back cover of the volume. The following details should be noted: f 7 is followed by f 7A; f 8 is followed by f 8A; f 23 is followed by f 23A; f 39 is followed by f 39A.On some pages the lines of handwritten have been truncated where the pages have been later cropped, making the legibility of words at the edges of pages difficult to read. One item in the volume (f 32) is written is in cypher.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Letter book
- Type (Narrower):
- Letters
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Trade (practice)
Indigo
Shipwrecks - Geographic region:
- Persia
Basra
Euphrates River - Extent:
- 1 volume, 38 items (57 folios)
- Rights:
- Open Government Licence
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000193.0x00006b_ar
81055/vdc_100000000193.0x00006b_en
IOR/R/15/1/134 - Is part of:
- British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers