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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/15/1/193-194

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/193-194
Title:
Political Diaries
Scope & Content:
Two political diaries, created by staff at the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, for the years 1883 and 1894.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1883-1894
Extent:
2 volumes (332 folios)

3. 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)

4. IOR/R/15/1/183-192

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/183-192
Title:
Bushire Political Residency correspondence: subject compilations
Scope & Content:
Subject compilations of secret and general correspondence. There were a number of holders of the office of Political Resident in the Persian Gulf during the period in question, but the following Residents: Captain James Felix Jones, Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1852-1900
Extent:
10 volumes (2105 folios)

5. 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)

6. 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)

7. 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

8. IOR/R/15/1/193

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/193
Title:
‘Political Diary, 1883’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a weekly diary registering English and Arabic or Persian (vernacular) correspondence received at and sent from the Residency, and political intelligence received at the Residency from British representatives (agents and telegraph station operators) at Bahrain, the Arab Coast (Sharj...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1883-Dec 1883
Extent:
1 volume (178 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/194

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/194
Title:
‘Political Diary 1894’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a diary, created by Residency staff, and recording events taking place at Bushire, in southern Persia, and around the shores of the Gulf, between December 1893 and December 1894. The places from which reports have been received by the Residency include: Bahrain, Bassidore, Bushire,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1893-29 Dec 1894
Extent:
1 volume (154 folios)

10. 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)