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Letter no.347 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government, Bombay [392v] (4/4)
The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 16 Nov 1853. 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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The letter relates to the recent emancipation of a female Somalian at Muscat, who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery at Soor [Sur]. Kemball writes that he has written to the authorities in Muscat, with a view to repatriating the woman and her brother, with the assistance of the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Aden.
There is a single enclosure with Kemball's letter, a translation of a letter (folios 391v-92) from the British Agent at Muscat to Kemball, dated 2 November 1853, in which the Agent reports the circumstances of the kidnapped woman's brother requesting his help in retrieving his sister in Muscat, and the girl's account of how she was kidnapped from her own country by men from Sur.
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Letter no.347 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government, Bombay [392v] (4/4), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/138, ff 391-392, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023444619.0x000024> [accessed 18 January 2025]
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- IOR/R/15/1/138, ff 391-392
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- Letter no.347 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government, Bombay
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- 391r:392v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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