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1. IOR/R/15/1/38-118

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/38-118
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: correspondence received and sent
Scope & Content:
The records consist of separate volumes of letters inward and outward; secret letters inward and outward; and 'native letters' inward and outward (also referred to as 'translation books': letters from Native Agents at Bahrain, Shiraz, Sharjah, Muscat, and elsewhere, and local rulers and official...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1826-1849
Extent:
81 files and volumes (7642 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/57
Title:
Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters received by the Residency, relating to a number of issues affecting or occurring in the Persian Gulf during the period covered: regulations for British vessels visiting the Persian Gulf and Bushire; hostilities on the Arab coast between the rulers of Abu Dhabi, Ra's al...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1831-11 Jul 1831
Extent:
1 volume, 5 items (12 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/52

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/52
Title:
Vol 66: Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
This file consists of correspondence received by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, Major David Wilson, from various officials at the Government of Bombay. Correspondents include: Charles Norris, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay; Robert Cotton Money, Acting Persian Secretary to Gove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Hindi
Date Range:
21 Dec 1829-11 Jun 1830
Extent:
1 volume (40 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/49

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/49
Title:
Vol 59: Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
This file consists of letters received by David Wilson, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, from William Newnham, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay, and Charles Norris, Acting Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay. The letters cover the following subjects: the concerns of Mahomed B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1829-21 Jul 1829
Extent:
1 volume, 3 items (18 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/88

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/88
Title:
‘Secret letters inward’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises letters and their enclosures, sent under the heading of ‘Secret Department’, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf (Captain Samuel Hennell). The letters are sent by LR Reid, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay. The file’s contents include correspondence relating to: the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Oct 1839-20 Oct 1840
Extent:
1 file (79 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/101

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/101
Title:
'Book 141 1844-1849' secret letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters received by Captain Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, from the Government of Bombay, between 1843 and 1848. Some correspondents address him as Major Hennell rather than Captain Hennell. A few of the letters received in 1843 are a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Feb 1843-14 Dec 1848
Extent:
1 file (111 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/41

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/41
Title:
'Book 47: 1826-1827'
Scope & Content:
This file contains letters and enclosures inwards from William Newnham, Secretary to the Governor of Bombay, to Captain Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire between 1826 and 1827. There are letters relating to Shaikh ‘Abd al-Rasūl Khān, the former Governor o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
3 Nov 1826-28 Apr 1827
Extent:
1 file, 9 items (33 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/95

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/95
Title:
'Book 130' Letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file contains: Letters exchanged between the British Government in London, the British Government of India and the Bombay Government, the British Resident in the Persian Gulf and the British Agent Muscat, September 1840 to February 1841 about alleged French demands on the East African territ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Sep 1840-29 Oct 1841
Extent:
1 file (40 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/49, ff 11-18

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/49, ff 11-18
Title:
Letter No. 448: William Newnham, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay, to David Wilson, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
Scope & Content:
In this letter William Newnham, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay, transmits an original letter, dated 16 April 1829, from the Governor of Bombay, Sir John Malcolm, to His Highness the Imaum of Muscat [Sa‘īd bin Sultān Āl Bū Sa‘īd, Imam of Muscat] along with copies in English and Arabic,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1829
Extent:
8 folios

10. IOR/R/15/1/41, ff 29-30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/41, ff 29-30
Title:
Letter No 357 of 1827 from William Newnham, Secretary to the Governor of Bombay, Bombay Castle, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire [Ephraim Gerrish Stannus]
Scope & Content:
This letter refers to William Newnham's letter dated 22 February and transmits an original letter from the Governor of Bombay to Sooltan bin Suggur [Sulṭān bin Ṣaqr Āl Qāsimī, the ruler of Sharjah] together with English and Arabic copies for the Resident's information. Only the Arabic copy is enc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Mar 1827
Extent:

2 folios