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1. 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)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. 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

6. IOR/R/15/1/172

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/172
Title:
Vol 261 Squadron and Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
This file consists of letters written and received by James Felix Jones, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. Aside from Jones, the two most prominent correspondents are Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, and Commodore Griffith Jenkins, Commander of the Indi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
25 Feb 1858-24 Dec 1859
Extent:
1 volume (94 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 238-39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 238-39
Title:
Letter no.402 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government Bombay
Scope & Content:
Kemball acknowledges receipt of 50 copies of the Government Gazetter (22 July) containing the notification for commanders, masters, and nakhodas of native vessels trading between the westen coast of India and the Persian Gulf (as described in f 232-37), with its native translations. Kemball discu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1852
Extent:
2 folios

8. IOR/R/15/1/143, ff 140-158

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/143, ff 140-158
Title:
Letter no.403 of 1854 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter relates to the Persian Gulf squadron’s expedition to Bahrain and Al-Qaṭīf, to attack the boat and position of the fugitive Humud bin Mujdell, and to obtain reparations from Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah at Bahrain. There are three principal enclosures to Kemball’s letter, some of whic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Dec 1854
Extent:
19 folios

9. IOR/R/15/1/183

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/183
Title:
File 58 Bahrain affairs
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence to/from three British Residents at Bushire, Captain James Felix Jones, Captain Herbert Frederick Disbrowe and Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly. A number of topics are discussed in the file, most prominent among them are the following: Relations between Britain a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Mar 1862-4 Apr 1868
Extent:
1 volume (183 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/195

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/195
Title:
'No 413 Vol 19. Revised Commercial Treaty with Muscat'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the conclusion of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation with the Sultan of Muscat, Sayyid Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd on 19 March 1891. The new treaty was modelled on a recently concluded treaty with Zanzibar. It superseded the Treaty of Commerce of May 1839 and i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1887-26 Jun 1905
Extent:
1 volume (180 folios)