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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Native Agent, Shiraz, 19th century Level [40] File

1. IOR/G/29/34

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/34
Title:
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letter, dated 17th September 1808
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of correspondence, memoranda, journal extracts, and intelligence reports relating to Brigadier-General John Malcolm’s 1808 mission to Persia [Iran] as East India Company Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. The papers are enclosures to a packet sent to the Secret...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 May 1808-17 Sep 1808
Extent:
1 volume (416 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/9/63

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/63
Title:
‘LETTERS FROM PERSIAN GULF WITH INDEX’, Vol 2
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of despatches to the Marquis of Salisbury, HM Principal Secretary of State for India, from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Ross, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and Captain William Francis Prideaux, Officiating Political Resident from April 1876. The despatches are dated 26...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1876-8 Feb 1877
Extent:
1 volume (594 folios)

3. 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)

4. IOR/R/15/1/50

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/50
Title:
Vol 63: Draft Native Letters Outward
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of draft letters outwards from the British Resident in the Persian Gulf; up to 1831 the office holder is David Wilson, but following his departure Samuel Hennell fills the position — in an acting capacity — until the end of the volume. The correspondence can be divided into ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1829-3 Jan 1832
Extent:
1 volume, (89 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/53

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/53
Title:
Vol 67, 68: Native Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
This file consists mostly of translations of letters received by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, Major David Wilson, from a number of East India Company native agents. The letters concern developments on both sides of the Gulf. The most prominent correspondents are the following: Gool...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Sep 1829-23 Apr 1830
Extent:
1 volume (78 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/59

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/59
Title:
Vol 77: Native Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
This file consists of contemporaneous copies or summaries of letters received by the Resident in the Persian Gulf (usually based at Bushire but temporarily residing on the Island of Corgo, following an outbreak of the plague) from a number of East India Company native agents, including those at ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1832-24 Nov 1832
Extent:
1 volume (29 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/61

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/61
Title:
Vol 80: Translation Book 1833 (Native Letters Inward)
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of translations and substances of letters (in Arabic and Persian) sent to the British Resident in the Persian Gulf; the volume consists of translations only, so no originals can be found within. This correspondence is primarily from the Resident's native agents stationed thro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jan 1833-12 Dec 1833
Extent:
1 volume (127 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/68

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/68
Title:
Vol 89 Translation Book, 1835 (native letters inward)
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of substances of, and translations of, native letters (i.e. correspondence in Arabic or Persian) sent to the British Resident in the Persian Gulf. The majority of these are from native agents serving the British in the Gulf at Bahrein [Bahrain], Muscat, Sharjah, Shiraz, Linga...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1835-25 Dec 1835
Extent:
1 volume (109 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/74

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/74
Title:
Native letters outward
Scope & Content:
The file consists of letters drafted from the British Residency in the Persian Gulf: Draft letter to Abdullah bin Ahmed, acknowledging that properties of Adeed's merchants were plundered by the Bani Yas, not considering this as a good enough reason for British intervention, but promising to writ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1837-19 Jul 1837
Extent:
1 volume, 5 items (6 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/115

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/115
Title:
‘Old Index Book No 159 From January 1848 To December 1848’ Vol 159 Outward letter book, 1848
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of letters sent in 1848 by Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, mainly to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Political Department, Bombay Castle and also to Lieutenant Colonel Francis Farrant, Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1848-31 Dec 1848
Extent:
1 volume (310 folios)