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1. IOR/F/4/415/10276

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/415/10276
Title:
‘Dispatch of Three Cruizers to the Persian Gulph [Gulf] for the Suppression of Pirates.’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of Political Consultations and Political Letters sent to and from the Government of Bombay. The item relates to attacks on merchant ships by the Joasamee [Āl Qāsimī] and the numerous counterefforts made by the East India Company and others over several ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Aug 1810-16 Jan 1813
Extent:

1 item (29 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/13

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/13
Title:
Vol 13 Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises letters received by the Resident at Bushire. For most of the period covered by this volume the Acting Resident at Bushire was Lieutenant William Bruce. The three other occupants of the Residency during this period were Lieutenant Robert Taylor, James Orton, and Thomas Flower...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Dec 1810-6 Aug 1813
Extent:
1 volume, 191 items (145 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/22

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22
Title:
Vol 22: Letters Outward
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of letters written from the Bushire Residency. The first eighty-two items are attributed to William Bruce; the remaining items, with the exception of a few letters written by Bruce from various locations, are written by James Dow, Assistant Surgeon at the Bushire Residency, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1820-29 Dec 1821
Extent:
1 volume, 184 items (93 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/40

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/40
Title:
'Book No. 46. 31 July 1826 to 19 February 1827'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, the Resident in the Persian Gulf, primarily to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government at Bombay and Lieutenant Colonel John Macdonald, Envoy to the Court of Persia. The main subject of correspondence within the volume is the relationship betw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jul 1826-19 Feb 1827
Extent:
1 volume, 156 items (140 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/51

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/51
Title:
Vol 65: Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
This file consists of correspondence relating to the Indian Navy in the Persian Gulf. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Major David Wilson, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, by the Commanding Officer of the Indian Navy in the Persian Gulf, William Sowden Collinson. In addition, the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1829-18 Jul 1830
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)