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1521. IOR/G/29/39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/39
Title:
Despatches Relating to Expeditions to the Persian Gulph, 1819-1821
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies and extracts of correspondence, with enclosures, relating to the Persian Gulph [Persian Gulf] Expedition of 1819 against the Joasmees [al-Qāsimī] at Rasul Khyma [Ra's al-Khaymah, various spellings in this volume] who the British deemed guilty of acts of ‘piracy’ in th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 May 1815-25 May 1821
Extent:
1 volume (291 folios)

1522. IOR/G/29/33

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/33
Title:
List of Enclosures in the Bengal Secret Letters dated 9th February, 31st March, 3rd May + 6th June 1808, relative to Persia
Scope & Content:
The volume relates to affairs in Persia [Iran] and contains copies of letters, extracts and translations of letters, intelligence reports, and proceedings of Governor-General in Council meetings at Fort William, Calcutta [Kolkata], being enclosures to several despatches sent during the first hal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Feb 1808-6 Jun 1808
Extent:
1 volume (205 folios)

1523. IOR/G/29/28

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/28
Title:
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letter of 2 Sep 1806: copies of correspondence of Samuel Manesty, Resident at Bushire, relating to his political proceedings in Persia
Scope & Content:
The volume consists mostly of correspondence, with enclosures, from Samuel Manesty, East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra], to Richard Colley Wellesley, Governor-General of India, Fort William. The letters concern Manesty's unauthorised diplomatic mission to the Court of the Shah of Persia ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1803-15 Sep 1806
Extent:
1 volume (287 folios)

1524. IOR/G/29/24

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/24
Title:
Letters and Enclosures on Persia received from Bassora, 1799-1811
Scope & Content:
Originals and duplicates of correspondence, comprising secret letters, excerpts of reports, schedules, translated letters and transcripts in original languages (Ottoman Turkish and French), in 331 enclosures received from Bassora [Basra, Iraq] and addressed to the Secret Department. Papers relate...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
13 Jan 1799-18 Dec 1811
Extent:
1 volume (767 folios)

1525. IOR/G/29/15

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/15
Title:
Letters and Enclosures etc., Received from Gombroon
Scope & Content:
Two volumes containing a collection of letters and enclosures dispatched from Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbas, also written as Gomroon] Factory to ‘the Court of Directors for affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies’. Almost every letter includes the date it was...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Marathi
Date Range:
18 Feb 1703-25 Oct 1727
Extent:
2 volumes (270 folios)

1526. IOR/G/29/22

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/22
Title:
Factory Records, Persia, Vol 22, Pts 1-4
Scope & Content:
These volumes contain the correspondence of the East India Company Factory at Bussora [Basra] with the Court of Directors and Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the Company in London, as well as occasional correspondence with the Bacha of Bagdat [Pāshā of Baghdad], the British Ambassad...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1784-22 Nov 1792
Extent:

4 volumes (804 folios)

1527. IOR/G/29/35

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/35
Title:
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letters of 21 December 1808, 20 January and 3 April 1809
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to affairs in Persia [Iran] and the Persian Gulph [Persian Gulf]. The principal correspondents are: Sir Harford Jones [later Jones-Brydges], Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Persia; Lord Minto [Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynyn...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Oct 1808-20 Mar 1809
Extent:
1 volume (304 folios)

1528. IOR/G/29/18

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/18
Title:
Persia Factory Records: Letters from Basra (1724-1731), Pts 1-2
Scope & Content:
These volumes contain letters sent to and from the East India Company Factory at Bussorah [Basra] between 19 April 1725 and 25 August 1731. The letters describe the power struggle between Ashraf Sultan Ghilza'i and Shah Tahmasb II for supremacy in Persia, political and economic relations with the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1725-25 Aug 1731
Extent:
2 volumes (239 folios)

1529. IOR/G/29/19

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/19
Title:
Persia Factory Records: Letters from Basra (1732-1752), Vols I-II
Scope & Content:
These two volumes contain letters sent to and from the East India Company Factory at Bussorah [Basra] between 19 March 1732 and 13 February 1753. The letters contain material relating to the overthrow of the Safavid Dynasty, and the rise of the Afshar Dynasty in Persia [Iran]; Nadir Shah Afshar's...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1732-13 Feb 1753
Extent:
2 volumes (250 folios)

1530. IOR/G/29/16

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/16
Title:
Letters and Enclosures etc., Received from Gombroon
Scope & Content:
Two volumes in one slipcase containing a collection of letters and enclosures dispatched from Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbas] Factory to ‘the Court of Directors for affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies’. Almost every letter includes the date it was received...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1728-20 Jun 1744
Extent:

2 volumes (291 folios)