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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. IOR/R/15/1/132, ff 106-108

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/132, ff 106-108
Title:
Letter from William Taylor Thompson, HM Chargé d'affaires at the Court of Persia, at Tehran to Colonel Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Resident [Political Agent in Turkish Arabia], Baghdad
Scope & Content:
The letter is reporting that the hostile attitude of the Government of Persia towards the British has proven short lived; it explains this is because the promises made to the Shah by the Russian Minister were not within his power to make. It notes that in consequence, the Persian Government has ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
27 Nov 1853
Extent:

3 folios

6. 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)

7. IOR/R/15/1/179

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/179
Title:
Vol 282 Head IV, Volume 11 (eleven) Bahrein and Wahabee Complications
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding relations between the people of Bahrein [Bahrain] and the Wahabees [Wahhabis] and the involvement of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain (James) Felix Jones, in affairs. The correspondence consists of letters and reports sent by Captain Jones to the Secr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
26 Sep 1859-14 Jan 1862
Extent:
2 volumes (354 folios)