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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Assistant to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, 1828-1971 Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/10/23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/23
Title:
File 351/1904 'Persian Gulf:- Erection of British flagstaffs at Musandam’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the erection (and subsequent abandonment) of flagstaffs at the head of the Persian Gulf, on the Maklab [Maqlab] Isthmus at Musandam (Musandam spelt with numerous variations throughout the file), Telegraph Island [Jazīrat al Maqlab]...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1902-1908
Extent:

1 volume (221 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/237

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/237
Title:
File 868/1912 Pt 3 'Arms traffic: arrangements at Muscat for its regulation'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, printed reports and two press-cuttings relating to the arms traffic in Muscat and arrangements for its regulation. Issues discussed include: French proposals regarding the suspension of the Sultan of Muscat's regulat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912
Extent:
1 volume (160 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/316

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/316
Title:
File 4648/1912 'Railway projects in South Persia; surveys of Gulf ports'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, and maps relating to the development of railways projects in South Persia and the associated marine surveys of Gulf ports, notably Bandar Abbas and Bushire. The volume includes the report of Lieutenant Arnold Talbot ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1916
Extent:
1 volume (129 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/18/B95

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B95
Title:
'NOTES ON THE ISLANDS OF BAHRAIN AND ANTIQUITIES BY CAPTAIN E. L. DURAND, 1ST ASSISTANT RESIDENT, PERSIAN GULF.'
Scope & Content:
Letter No. 164 from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Her British Majesty's Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Alfred Comyn Lyall, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, 1 May 1879, enclosing notes on the islands of Bahrain and Antiquities, written by Edward Law ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1879
Extent:

1 file (14 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/154

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/154
Title:
Vol 215: Persia and Persian Coast; Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
This volume consists mostly of correspondence between the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, and the Secretary to the Government of Bombay. Writing on behalf of the Residency are Commander (James) Felix Jones, Acting Resident (and later in the volume, Resident) in the Persian Gulf...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Feb 1856-25 May 1857
Extent:
1 volume (95 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/156
Title:
Persia
Scope & Content:
The file is in two sections. The first section contains correspondence and the minutes of a public meeting regarding desecration of British graves at Bushire by some Persians, covering attempts to secure agreement with Persian authorities to respect the sanctity of such things and permission to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
31 Dec 1857-12 Dec 1860
Extent:
1 file (62 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/167

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/167
Title:
'Book No 253'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of correspondence sent and original correspondence received by the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, relating to Bahrein [Bahrain] and the Wahabees [Wahhabis]. The Political Resident in the Persian Gulf throughout the period was Captain (James) Felix Jo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1857-22 Feb 1862
Extent:
1 volume (226 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/170

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/170
Title:
'Book 257 1857-1861' Vol 257 Persia; including `Narrative of Events connected with Persia and Persian Coast, 1856/57, 1857/58 by Lt Disbrowe, Assistant Resident'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence file containing a narrative of the events of the War with Persia (1856-1857) from the perspective of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain (James) Felix Jones, and his assistant Lieutenant Herbert Frederick Disbrowe. Also contained within the file are copies of cor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
27 Mar 1857-7 Dec 1861
Extent:
1 file, 2 items (126 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/171

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/171
Title:
Vol 259 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 (James) Felix Jones)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
18 Nov 1857-30 Nov 1861
Extent:
1 volume (237 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/173

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/173
Title:
‘Vol 262 Historical Sketches and Administrative Reports’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains three administrative reports submitted by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain (James) Felix Jones, to the Government of Bombay. The first report (folios 6-36) covers events occurring within the key towns and tribes of the Arab coast of the Gulf between the peri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jun 1857-2 Dec 1858
Extent:
1 volume (99 folios)