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1. IOR/R/15/1/119-198

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/119-198
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: correspondence bound in subject compilations
Scope & Content:
The records consist of incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Political Residency, Bushire. The volumes are bound in subject compilations. The records are as follows: IOR/R/15/1/119-144: subject compilations, 1850-1855; IOR/R/15/1/145-179: subject compilations, 1854-1863; IOR/R/15/1/180-1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Hebrew, Hindustani, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1850-1918
Extent:
80 volumes

2. IOR/R/15/1/195-198

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/195-198
Title:
Subject Compilations
Scope & Content:
'Old System' miscellaneous compilations. The first surviving file in this sub-series was renumbered as file 14/88se R/15/1/246. Subjects include the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation of 1891; Sirrī and other Persian Gulf islands; and commercial banks on the Arab coast of the Persian G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1887-1918
Extent:
4 volumes (585 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/180-182

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/180-182
Title:
Native Letters Sent
Scope & Content:
These volumes contain drafts of letters in English together with Arabic and Persian translations from the Political Resident at Bushire to British Native Agents, Persian officials and members of ruling families, as well as merchants, British Indian subjects and others. Events covered within these...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1856-1872
Extent:
3 volumes (477 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/145-179

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/145-179
Title:
Bushire Residency correspondence: subject compilations
Scope & Content:
The records consist of correspondence sent and received by the Residency at Bushire. The holders of the office of Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (permanent or acting) during the period were Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Captain (James) Felix Jones, Lieutenant Herbert Frederick Disbrow...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Hebrew, Hindustani, Malayalam, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1854-1863
Extent:
35 volumes (5657 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/119-144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/119-144
Title:
Subject compilations: letters received and letters sent
Scope & Content:
From 1850 onwards letters received and letters sent were arranged under general subject headings, e.g. Arabian Coast and Persian Gulf, Slave Trade, Commercial and General etc; correspondence in each section was then bound chronologically. Separate volumes of secret correspondence and Native lette...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1850-1855
Extent:
26 volumes

6. IOR/R/15/1/180

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/180
Title:
Native Letters Outward
Scope & Content:
This volume includes miscellaneous draft correspondence in English with accompanying Arabic and Persian (with the presence of siyāq accountancy script) translations from 9 August 1856 (7 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1272) to 28 January 1859 (23 Jumādá II 1275). The letters are between the British Residency i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
9 Aug 1856-28 Jan 1859
Extent:
1 volume (140 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/181

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/181
Title:
Native Letters Outward
Scope & Content:
This volume includes miscellaneous draft correspondence, reports and statements, as well as Internal Transit Permits, in English with accompanying Arabic and Persian (with the presence of siyāq accountancy script) translations from 14 May 1863 (25 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1279) to 18 October 1865 (27 Jumād...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
14 May 1863-18 Oct 1865
Extent:
1 volume (142 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/182

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/182
Title:
Native Letters Outward
Scope & Content:
This volume includes miscellaneous draft correspondence, as well as Internal Transit Permits, in English with accompanying Arabic and Persian (with the presence of siyāq accountancy script) translations from 23 May 1870 (21 Ṣafar 1287) to 14 March 1872 (4 Muḥarram 1289). The letters are between...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
23 May 1870-14 Mar 1872
Extent:
1 volume (195 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/130

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/130
Title:
Vol 178 1852/53 Bahrain; Arabian Coast; Slave Trade; Muscat
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters sent outwards and letters received from the Residency in the Persian Gulf. Outgoing correspondence was sent by the Resident of the Persian Gulf, who was Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell until April 1852. After April 1852, the Resident was Captain Arnold Kemball, who ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Jan 1852-27 Dec 1852
Extent:

1 file in two volumes (122 items, 338 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/139, ff 34-37v

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/139, ff 34-37v
Title:
Letter No. 79: Commodore George Robinson, Commander of the Persian Gulf Squadron, HC Sloop Clive, Near Bushire, to Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
Scope & Content:
In this letter, Commodore George Robinson, Commander of the Persian Gulf Squadron, attaches two enclosures. The first enclosure is a copy of a letter, dated 12 June 1853, from Lieutenant Robert Anstice Stradling, Commander of the HC schooner Constance, containing information from the lower part o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Jun 1853
Extent:
4 folios