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51. IOR/R/15/1/89

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/89
Title:
‘Letters inward; `diaries of Captain Hamerton’s proceedings at Sharjah’’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers received by the Residency in the Persian Gulf during 1840. The principal correspondents are Commodore George Barnes Brucks, Commanding the Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf, Commander Anthony H Nott of the Honourable Company’s Brigantine Tigris,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1839-19 Dec 1840
Extent:
1 file (114 folios)

52. IOR/R/15/1/90

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/90
Title:
‘Vol 124 Secret letters inward and outward’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence relating to the crisis in Britain’s relations with Persia in the early 1840s, in the wake of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42) and the siege of Herat (1838), which led to British occupation of the island of Karrak [Jazīreh-ye Khārk] in the Persian Gulf. Th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1840-8 Feb 1843
Extent:
1 volume (72 folios)

53. IOR/R/15/1/91

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/91
Title:
‘Vol 125 Native letters inward’
Scope & Content:
The volume chiefly comprises copies of letters sent to the Residency (with some addressed to the Resident, Captain Samuel Hennell) by the various government agents, including: Moollah Hussain, the agent at Sharjah; Khojah Reuben, the agent at Muscat; the Government agent at Bahrain [referred to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 May 1840-27 Nov 1841
Extent:
1 volume (133 folios)

54. IOR/R/15/1/92

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/92
Title:
‘Vol 126 Letters outward’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises letters sent by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain Samuel Hennell, to the Commander of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf, Commodore George Barnes Brucks. The letters are instructions relating to the dispatch of Government vessels to the Arab coast to deal w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jun 1840-13 Feb 1841
Extent:
1 volume, 5 items (15 folios)

55. IOR/R/15/1/93

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/93
Title:
‘Secret Letters Outward’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of letters sent under the heading ‘Secret Department’ from the Residency in the Persian Gulf (either from the Resident, Captain Samuel Hennell, or the Assistant Resident, T Mackenzie), to the Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay, throughout 1840 and 1841. The princi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1840-30 Dec 1840
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

56. IOR/R/15/1/94

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/94
Title:
‘Book 128’ Letters outward
Scope & Content:
All letters in the file are from the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at his Residency on the Island of Karrack [Khārk, Jazīreh-ye] and are addressed mainly to the British Government in Bombay. Many of the Resident’s letters include extracts from reports submitted to him by the Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1841-23 Dec 1841
Extent:
1 file (49 folios)

57. 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)

58. IOR/R/15/1/96

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/96
Title:
‘Book 131’ Secret letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters received by Captain Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf in 1841, mainly from J P Willoughby, Secretary to the Government of Bombay. At this period, the British Residency was based temporarily on the island of Karrack. The letters to the Reside...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1840 - 27 Dec 1841
Extent:
1 file (119 folios)

59. IOR/R/15/1/97

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/97
Title:
'Book 133' Secret letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file contains an exchange of letters between British Government officials in India and London, copied to Lieutenant H D Robertson (Officiating British Resident in the Persian Gulf) for his information and guidance. The letters often refer to the regular reports submitted by the British Resid...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1841-15 Dec 1842
Extent:
1 file (37 folios)

60. IOR/R/15/1/98

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/98
Title:
Vol 134 Secret letters inward
Scope & Content:
The volume contains three letters and a company circular received by the British Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, from: a British company in Baghdad advertising its new overland postal service in Arabia (folios 1A-3), Commander Porter reporting on his sea patrol of the Persian Gulf in Ja...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Dec 1842-14 Jun 1843
Extent:
1 volume, 3 items (6 folios)