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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R Language French Name HM Ambassador to Iran, 1807-1980

1. IOR/R/15/1/10

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/10
Title:
Vol 10 Letters Outward
Scope & Content:
A volume of letters sent outwards. Most of the correspondence is from Nicholas Hankey Smith, Resident at Bushire, mainly to various company officials in India or elsewhere in the Gulf and surrounding regions. Correspondence is also frequently sent to Jaffer Ali Khan [Ja‘afar ‘Alī Khān], the Resi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
3 Nov 1806-6 Dec 1808
Extent:

2 volumes, 314 items (212 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/81

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/81
Title:
Book 111: Letters Inward 1839
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of a few letters addressed to Samuel Hennell, the British Resident in the Persian Gulf. The main authors being Justin Sheil, HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Persia, based at Erzeroom; George Barnes Brucks, Commander of the Indian Naval Squa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Feb 1839-26 May 1839
Extent:
1 volume (61 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/110

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/110
Title:
‘Book 153 1847’ Vol 153 Letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters received by Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire between January and November 1847, mainly from the following British officials: Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, British Envoy at the Court of the Shah of Persia, Tehran; Henry Wel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
7 Jan 1847-8 Nov 1847
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

4. 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

5. IOR/R/15/1/159

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)

6. IOR/R/15/1/163

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)

7. IOR/R/15/1/384-388

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/384-388
Title:
File 26: Arabistan and Luristan
Scope & Content:
The volumes contain correspondence, reports, maps, and memoranda relating to British interests in the Arabistan [Khūzestān] and Luristan [Lorestān] provinces of south west Persia following their political and commercial penetration of the region in the late nineteenth-century. The documents cove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1905-1946
Extent:

5 volumes (1073 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/554

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/554
Title:
File 60/20 I (C 93) Imperial Bank of Iran: Bahrain, etc
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to banking in Persia, Saudi Arabia, and the Persian Gulf. The majority of the correspondence is between the British Ministry in Tehran, the Government of India, High Commissioner in Iraq (later the British Ambassador), Political Residency in Bushire, t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Jan 1918-Feb 1946
Extent:
1 volume (201 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/599

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/599
Title:
File 61/20 I (D 75) Meeting between Kings of Iraq and Nejd
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to a meeting between King Faisal of Iraq and King Ibn Sa‘ud of Najd and Hejaz, overseen by the British. The main correspondents are Sidney Webb, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Francis Humphrys, High Commissioner of Iraq, Harold Dickson, Political...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
7 Jan 1930-28 Nov 1930
Extent:
1 volume (208 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/610

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/610
Title:
File 73/7 I (D 19) Status of Kuwait & Baghdad Railway, and Anglo-Turkish negotiations 1911
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, memorandums, and newspaper cuttings relating to a proposed Baghdad to Basra railway, an extension of the German Berlin to Baghdad Railway. Much of the correspondence has been forwarded to the Residency by the Foreign Department of the Government of India and i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Jan 1911-19 Jan 1912
Extent:
2 volumes (334 folios)