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21. IOR/R/15/1/756

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/756
Title:
'Arabic File No. 9'
Scope & Content:
This file consists mainly of original Arabic and Persian letters from various correspondents to Khān Bahādur ‘Īsá bin ‘Abd al-Laṭīf, the Residency Agent on the Trucial Coast at Sharjah. The file has its original file cover (ff. 2 and 172) which includes the title of the file in Arabic ['Namr 9, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
24 Sep 1924-6 Jul 1927
Extent:
1 file (185 folios)

22. IOR/R/15/1/225

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/225
Title:
File 5/193 I (B 23) Slavery in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains confidential correspondence related to specific cases of slavery. The key correspondents in the volume are the Political Resident of the Persian Gulf (a post occupied by six incumbents during the time frame covered), and Government of India and Foreign Office officials in Ind...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
28 Apr 1924-12 Nov 1929
Extent:

1 volume (216 folios)

23. IOR/R/15/1/199

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)

24. IOR/R/15/1/752-757

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/752-757
Title:
Correspondence in Arabic and English between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire and the Residency Agent on the Trucial Coast at Sharjah
Scope & Content:
This file mainly contains letters and instructions sent from the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf to the Residency Agent on the Trucial Coast at Sharjah in the years 1883-1914, 1921, 1924-1927 and 1930, as well as a ledger book of drafts of letters sent from the Residency Agent to the Pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1883-1930
Extent:

6 files (1206 folios)

25. IOR/R/15/1/734

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/734
Title:
'List Showing the Names, Titles and Modes of Address of the More Important Sovereigns, Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles etc., Having Relations with the Indian Government, Alqabnamah'
Scope & Content:
The volume is entitled List Showing the Names, Titles and Modes of Address of the More Important Sovereigns, Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles etc., Having Relations with the Indian Government, Alqabnamah (New Delhi: Government of India Press, 1935). [The Alqabnamah was a register kept by the India...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1935
Extent:

1 volume (71 folios)

26. IOR/R/15/1/177

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/177
Title:
Vol 278 Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
The volume's correspondence and other papers document British officials' attempts to suppress the slave trade in the Gulf, and their procedures for dealing with liberated slaves. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Captain Felix Jones), Henry ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
27 Apr 1858-16 Jan 1862
Extent:
1 volume (225 folios)

27. IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 152-156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 152-156
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:
Justin Sheil refers to Samuel Hennell's despatch of 14 August 1850, which included a letter from Hajee Mahomed Jaffer and an istishad nameh, regarding the Agent at Shiraz [Mirza Mahmood]. Sheil argues that the istishad nameh is valueless and that Hajee Mahomed Jaffer's letter is far from conclusi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
9 Sep 1850
Extent:
5 folios

28. IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 181-186

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 181-186
Title:
Letter from His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran to Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
Scope & Content:
This letter concerns the fate of the late Mr Tasker's watch. Justin Sheil informs Samuel Hennell that he wrote to Hajee Mahomed Jaffer, requesting an explanation of the circumstances by which he came to possess Mr Tasker's watch. Sheil states that Hajee Mahomed Jaffer's reply is neither an admis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
8 Oct 1850
Extent:
6 folios

29. IOR/R/15/1/170, ff 68-125

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/170, ff 68-125
Title:
'Persia - Head II - Subject 14'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding the Persian Gulf Political Residency's responsibilities with regard to maritime peace; its relations with Persia and discussing in particular recent disorder on the Persian Coast and the decision of the Persian Authorities to cooperate for their suppression. Folio 122 i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
16 Jun 1859-7 Dec 1861
Extent:
58 folios

30. IOR/R/15/1/121

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)