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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Place Bussora, Asia Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/9/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/8
Title:
'LETTERS FROM THE RESIDENT BUSSARAH 31. JAN. 1793 TO 21. JUNE 1803 VOL 8'
Scope & Content:
The volume chiefly comprises letters to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company from the Resident and Factor at Bussora [Basra], Samuel Manesty. The letters are dated 31 January 1793-21 June 1803 and the date each letter was received is recorded on the back of it...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1793-21 Jun 1803
Extent:
1 volume (609 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/9/9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/9
Title:
‘LETTERS FROM THE RESIDENT BUSSARAH 7. MAR. 1803 TO 31. MAR. 1811. MR MANESTY & HIS ASSISTANT. VOL. 9.’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters, mostly to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, and mainly from the Resident at Busssora [Basra, also spelled Bussarah in this volume], Samuel Manesty, and the following, successively in temporary charge of the Bussora Residency (a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1803-6 Aug 1810
Extent:
1 volume (221 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/162

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/162
Title:
File 757/1909 'Persian Gulf:- Turkey and Turkish aggression (Occupation of Zakhnuniyeh Island. Attitude in piracy cases. Mudirs at Zubara, Odaid and Wakra) British Relations with Turkey in Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the Turkish occupation of Zakhnuniyah Island, the Ottoman attitude towards piracy cases, and the appointment of officials in Zubara, Odeid and Wakra. The discussion in the volume relates to the Turkish...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909-1911
Extent:
1 volume (245 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/18/B165

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B165
Title:
Report (with Maps) on the country adjacent to the Khor Abdullah, and places suitable as Termini of proposed Bagdad Railway, by Captain E W S Mahon, RE July 1905
Scope & Content:
The report, printed for the use of the Foreign Office, was compiled by Captain Edward Willoughby Sandys Mahon, Royal Engineer on 24 July 1905 to identify places suitable as termini of the Baghdad Railway. He advises Bussorah [Basra] as the best place, for strategic and commercial reasons. The r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1905
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)