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037-000227551 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name HM Ambassador to Iran, 1807-1980

1. IOR/R/15/1/119-144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/119-144
Title:
Subject compilations: letters received and letters sent
Scope & Content:
From 1850 onwards letters received and letters sent were arranged under general subject headings, e.g. Arabian Coast and Persian Gulf, Slave Trade, Commercial and General etc; correspondence in each section was then bound chronologically. Separate volumes of secret correspondence and Native lette...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1850-1855
Extent:
26 volumes

2. IOR/R/15/1/150

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/150
Title:
Vol 210: 1856/57 Persia; General and Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters inwards and letters outwards from the Residency in the Persian Gulf, based at Bushire; the incumbent Resident is James Felix Jones. The subject matter of the correspondence concerns affairs in Persia; a proposed telegraph extension from India to Constantinople via the Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1856-15 Nov 1856
Extent:
1 volume, 11 items (19 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/147

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/147
Title:
Book No. 200 from December 1854 to December 1855
Scope & Content:
The volumes consist of original correspondence sent to and copies of letters sent from the Bushire Residency; the principal correspondents being Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, followed by Captain James Felix Jones as Resident in the Persian Gulf at the time, the Assistant Resident in Charge, H...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jan 1855-15 Dec 1855
Extent:
2 volumes (293 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/148

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/148
Title:
Vol 201 1855/56 Persia: correspondence with Tehran; Squadron; General
Scope & Content:
This file contains copies of official correspondence divided up into three sections as follows: 1) 1855/56 Residency, Persian Gulf, Persia (folios 1b-50): This section contains copies of correspondence regarding affairs in Persia between Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Political Resident in the Persi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1855-24 Jan 1856
Extent:
1 volume (80 folios)

5. 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)

6. IOR/R/15/1/152

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/152
Title:
Vol 212 Secret Correspondence: Bahrain; Muscat and Bandar Abbas; Miscellaneous and Local
Scope & Content:
The volume contains secret correspondence (original correspondence received and copies of correspondence sent) within the following three separate categories: Bahrein [Bahrain]; Muscat and Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas] (and local); and miscellaneous and local. The Resident in the Persian Gulf dur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Jan 1856-7 Feb 1857
Extent:
2 volumes (305 folios)

7. 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)

8. IOR/R/15/1/153

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/153
Title:
Vol 214 Persian Expeditionary Force: Cpt Felix Jones' Memorial and miscellaneous papers
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence written during and just after the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57. The correspondents include: James Felix Jones, Political Resident at Bushire; Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to Government at Bombay; Captain Dunsterville, Assistant Commissary-General to the Persia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jan 1857-21 Apr 1859
Extent:
1 file (71 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/159

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/159
Title:
Persian Expeditionary Force
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to British forces sent to Bushire during the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57. The correspondents include: Major-General Foster Stalker (later James Outram), Commander of British Forces in Persia; Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to Government at Bombay; Ch...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
4 Oct 1856-24 Jul 1857
Extent:
1 volume (226 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/163

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/163
Title:
British Agents
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to the employment and activities of British Agents responsible to the Persian Gulf Residency at Bushire. The correspondents include: Felix Jones, British Resident at Bushire; the Government of Bombay; Captain Christopher Palmer Rigby, British Consul an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
30 Jun 1857-27 Jan 1862
Extent:
1 volume (318 folios)