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032-000209245 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name IOR/R/15/1/673

1. IOR/R/15/1/752-757

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/752-757
Title:
Correspondence in Arabic and English between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire and the Residency Agent on the Trucial Coast at Sharjah
Scope & Content:
This file mainly contains letters and instructions sent from the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf to the Residency Agent on the Trucial Coast at Sharjah in the years 1883-1914, 1921, 1924-1927 and 1930, as well as a ledger book of drafts of letters sent from the Residency Agent to the Pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1883-1930
Extent:

6 files (1206 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/99

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/99
Title:
Letters outward
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of letters sent by the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, mainly to J P Willoughby, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, in 1843. Although Captain Samuel Hennell was Resident at this time, letters dated January to October 1843 were sent by Lieutenant Col...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1842-30 Dec 1843
Extent:
1 volume (100 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/175

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/175
Title:
Wrecks, Maritime outrages
Scope & Content:
This volume is concerned with 'outrages' committed by the Sheikh [Shaikh] of Bokha [Barka’, Oman] on the people of Shargah [Sharjah] whose boat foundered off his town. It is also concerned with fines exacted and the recovery of payments from various Shaikhs incurred for acts of piracy, the coerc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Dec 1859-10 May 1860
Extent:
1 volume, 17 items (32 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/162

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/162
Title:
'Head V Oman Ports Subject 1 to 18 inclusive'
Scope & Content:
Bushire Residency correspondence, inwards and outwards. The correspondence is mainly concerned with the recovery of fines exacted against the rulers of the Trucial Coast. The reasons for the fines include breaching the maritime peace, abducting of slaves, and plundering of pearls. Topics include...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1857-28 Jun 1861
Extent:
1 volume (334 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/100

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/100
Title:
'Book 140 1843' letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters received by Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Assistant British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, who was in charge of the Persian Gulf Residency at Bushire, from August to October 1843. Later letters were received by Captain Samuel Hennell, British Political Re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jul 1843-2 Dec 1843
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/178

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/178
Title:
'Book No 281'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains administrative reports and historical sketches concerning Persian Gulf affairs. The volume also contains a number of letters between Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government, Bombay; A Hinlock Forbes, Acting Secretary to the Government, Bombay; and Captain Felix Jon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1859-31 May 1861
Extent:
1 volume (178 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/48

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/48
Title:
Vol 58 Native Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
This file contains translations of letters sent to David Wilson, the Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire. The letters contained in the file are from Britain's native agents (based at Bahrain, Muscat, Sharqah [Sharjah] and Lingah) and from several local rulers including the Chief of Bushire...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Oct 1828-17 Jul 1829
Extent:
1 volume (95 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/91

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/91
Title:
‘Vol 125 Native letters inward’
Scope & Content:
The volume chiefly comprises copies of letters sent to the Residency (with some addressed to the Resident, Captain Samuel Hennell) by the various government agents, including: Moollah Hussain, the agent at Sharjah; Khojah Reuben, the agent at Muscat; the Government agent at Bahrain [referred to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 May 1840-27 Nov 1841
Extent:
1 volume (133 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/197

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/197
Title:
'B.11 668-II Sirri Island'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence mostly concerning the island of Sirri [Sirrī], as well as other Persian Gulf islands, including Tanb [Ṭanb] and Lesser Tanb, Farur [Farūr] and Lesser Farur, Dalmah [Dalmā], Halul island [Ḥālūl], Sir Abu Nu'ayr [Ṣīr Abū Nu‘ayr], and Sir Bani Yas [Ṣīr Banī Yās]. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
31 May 1904-25 Oct 1910
Extent:
1 file (146 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/239-294

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/239-294
Title:
File 14: Arab Coast and Islands
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub series contains correspondence from 1871 to 1948 on a range of matters relating to the Trucial Coast and nearby islands including Abu Musa, Tunb [Tumb] and Sir Abu Nu'air. Topics in the correspondence discussed include: British relations with the Trucial States of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1871-1948
Extent:
56 volumes