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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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/121
Title:: Vol 166: 1850 Persia
Scope & Content:: This file contains letters written and received by Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. Most of the letters written by Hennell are addressed to His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, French, and Persian
Date Range:: 7 Jan 1850-27 Dec 1850
Extent:: 1 volume, 94 items (226 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 117-126
Title:: Letter from His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Camp Near Tehran, to Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
Scope & Content:: This letter concerns the Agent at Shiraz, Meerza Mahmood, and the matter of a gold watch which formerly belonged to the late Mr Tasker. Justin Sheil refers to Samuel Hennell's despatch, no. 273, dated 15 July 1850, in which Hennell stated that Mr Tasker had two or three watches. Sheil states tha...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 14 Aug 1850
Extent:: 10 folios

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)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/159
Title:: Persian Expeditionary Force
Scope & Content:: The volume contains correspondence relating to British forces sent to Bushire during the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57. The correspondents include: Major-General Foster Stalker (later James Outram), Commander of British Forces in Persia; Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to Government at Bombay; Ch...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:: 4 Oct 1856-24 Jul 1857
Extent:: 1 volume (226 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/163
Title:: British Agents
Scope & Content:: The volume contains correspondence relating to the employment and activities of British Agents responsible to the Persian Gulf Residency at Bushire. The correspondents include: Felix Jones, British Resident at Bushire; the Government of Bombay; Captain Christopher Palmer Rigby, British Consul an...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:: 30 Jun 1857-27 Jan 1862
Extent:: 1 volume (318 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/164
Title:: ‘Vol 249 Persian correspondence’
Scope & Content:: The file is chiefly comprised of translated extracts of letters written by the British Agent at Shiraz, E N Castelli (an original letter in French, signed Castilly, is also in the file at folio 3), sent to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain Felix Jones. These extracts were sent ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 23 Nov 1858-24 Nov 1859
Extent:: 1 file (33 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/169
Title:: Vol 256 Persia
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence to/from Captain James Felix Jones, the British Resident in the Persian Gulf. The file is divided into two thematic sections: 1) folios 2-61 contain correspondence regarding British attempts to locate and arrest four Indians accused of involvement in the Indian ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 3 Apr 1857-9 Dec 1861
Extent:: 1 volume (104 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/199
Title:: ‘File 5/6 I Brussels Conference and general rules and procedure on slave traffic’
Scope & Content:: Correspondence related to the distribution of the text of the General Act of the Brussels Conference of 1890 throughout the Persian Gulf region. The English version of the Act is on folios 32-37. William Lee-Warner, Secretary to the Government of India in Bombay, sent Adelbert Talbot (Political ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:: 28 Mar 1892-21 May 1925
Extent:: 1 volume (137 folios)

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