Search

Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R Language Persian

1. IOR/R/15/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire
Scope & Content:
There are considerable gaps within the series owing to periodic weeding processes. The files and volumes may be divided as follows: (1) 1763-1849 (IOR/R/15/1/1-118) Separate series of letters received and letters sent contain correspondence mainly with Basra and later with Government of Bomb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1763-1948
Extent:
c 758 files

2. IOR/R/15/1/1-118

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/1-118
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: letters received and sent
Scope & Content:
The records consist of correspondence received ('letters inward') and sent ('letters outward') by the Political Residency, Bushire. Much of the early correspondence is with the East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra]; later with the Government of Bombay in its various departments, other Brit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1763-1849
Extent:
118 files and volumes

3. IOR/R/15/1/10-37

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/10-37
Title:
Letters Received and Sent by the Bushire Residency
Scope & Content:
The volumes contain transcribed copies of letters received and sent by the Residency at Bushire, arranged separately in roughly annual volumes. There is almost complete coverage of both inward and outward correspondence for the years 1806-1826, but a number of volumes are incomplete. The corresp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1806-1826
Extent:
28 volumes (2757 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/28

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/28
Title:
'Book No 28 From November 1822 to November 1823'
Scope & Content:
The majority of this volume includes letters from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay to Lieutenant John MacLeod, Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire. They concern details of his appointment following the dismissal of Captain William Bruce and various instructions, including regarding t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
12 Nov 1822-9 Nov 1823
Extent:
1 volume, 17 items (145 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/28, f 93

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/28, f 93
Title:
Copy of a Persian letter form the Deputy Secretary to the Government of Bombay to His Highness the Prince Regent of Fars, Ḥusayn ‘Alī Mīrzā
Scope & Content:
The letter informs of the appointment of Captain MacLeod. The translation appears on folio 97.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
30 Oct 1822
Extent:

1 folio

6. IOR/R/15/1/28, f 94

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/28, f 94
Title:
Copy of a Persian letter from the Deputy Secretary to the Government of Bombay to Shaikh of Bushire, ‘Abd al-Rasūl Khān, dated 10 Ṣafar 1238 [30 October 1822]
Scope & Content:
The letter informs of the appointment of Captain MacLeod. A translation of a letter similar to this one appears on folio 97.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
30 Oct 1822
Extent:

1 folio

7. IOR/R/15/1/38-118

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/38-118
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: correspondence received and sent
Scope & Content:
The records consist of separate volumes of letters inward and outward; secret letters inward and outward; and 'native letters' inward and outward (also referred to as 'translation books': letters from Native Agents at Bahrain, Shiraz, Sharjah, Muscat, and elsewhere, and local rulers and official...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1826-1849
Extent:
81 files and volumes (7642 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/41

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/41
Title:
'Book 47: 1826-1827'
Scope & Content:
This file contains letters and enclosures inwards from William Newnham, Secretary to the Governor of Bombay, to Captain Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire between 1826 and 1827. There are letters relating to Shaikh ‘Abd al-Rasūl Khān, the former Governor o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
3 Nov 1826-28 Apr 1827
Extent:
1 file, 9 items (33 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/41, ff 6-8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/41, ff 6-8
Title:
Letter No 1283 of 1826 from William Newnham, Secretary to the Governor of Bombay, Bombay Castle, to Captain Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire
Scope & Content:
William Newnham encloses an original letter, dated 20 October 1826, from the Governor of Bombay for delivery to the Shaik of Bushire, Abdoor Russool Khan [‘Abd al-Rasūl Khān] with copies in Persian and English for the Resident's information.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
23 Nov 1826
Extent:

3 folios

10. IOR/R/15/1/44

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/44
Title:
'Book No: 52'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence book consists of translations and substances of letters, with enclosures, addressed to Captain David Wilson, British Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, Mirza Hadayat Ullah [Mīrzā Hidāyatullāh] and Captain Samuel Hennell. The dates of the letters are given using the Grego...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
15 Nov 1827-19 Sep 1828
Extent:
1 volume (96 folios)