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Letter no.564 of 1855 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf [324v] (2/4)
The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 6 Feb 1855. 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 is a covering letter, with enclosure relating to the suppression of the slave trade in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The enclosure is an extract of paragraphs 17 and 19 from despatch no.32 of 1854 (folio 325) from the Honourable Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. , dated 22 November 1854. The despatch raises opinions expressed in letters sent to the Bombay Government by Kemball and by Commander Montriou, Senior Naval Officer in Aden, both of whom suggest that the presence of an additional British vessel, patrolling the southeast coast of the Arabian peninsula around Macullah [Al-Mukallā], would be sufficient to help better suppress the slave trade between East Africa and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . Paragraph 19 of the despatch notes that these opinions confirm the Court of Directors’ own opinion that a force of far less strength than that deemed necessary by Sir Henry Leeke, Commander in Chief of the Indian Navy, is required to tackle the slave trade.
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Letter no.564 of 1855 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf [324v] (2/4), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/143, ff 324-325, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023443254.0x00004c> [accessed 31 March 2025]
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- IOR/R/15/1/143, ff 324-325
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- Letter no.564 of 1855 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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- 324r:325v
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