Letter no.154 of 1854 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
IOR/R/15/1/143, f 360
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The record is made up of 1 folio. It was created in 28 Apr 1854. 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 two enslaved boys who absconded from Muscat on board the Honourable Company’s steam frigate Ajdaha . Kemball writes that, because the Ajdaha had departed Muscat, he informed Captain Barker of the Ajdaha that the two boys were at liberty to choose their own destiny. The two boys chose to remain at Bassidore under the charge of Commodore Robinson, until the opportunity arose to send them to the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. at Bombay.
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- 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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- 28 Apr 1854 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Letter no.154 of 1854 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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- 360r:360v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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