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032-000209245 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Native Agent, Shiraz, 19th century

1. IOR/R/15/1/121

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/121
Title:
Vol 166: 1850 Persia
Scope & Content:
This file contains letters written and received by Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. Most of the letters written by Hennell are addressed to His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
7 Jan 1850-27 Dec 1850
Extent:
1 volume, 94 items (226 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/169
Title:
Vol 256 Persia
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence to/from Captain James Felix Jones, the British Resident in the Persian Gulf. The file is divided into two thematic sections: 1) folios 2-61 contain correspondence regarding British attempts to locate and arrest four Indians accused of involvement in the Indian ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Apr 1857-9 Dec 1861
Extent:
1 volume (104 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/164

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/164
Title:
‘Vol 249 Persian correspondence’
Scope & Content:
The file is chiefly comprised of translated extracts of letters written by the British Agent at Shiraz, E N Castelli (an original letter in French, signed Castilly, is also in the file at folio 3), sent to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain Felix Jones. These extracts were sent ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Nov 1858-24 Nov 1859
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/135
Title:
`Political Diary of the Residency in the Persian Gulf – Native Departments’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a political diary recording ‘native’ correspondence sent and received by the Residency, visits made by the Resident, visitors received at the Residency, and other occurrences of note. All of the correspondence detailed in the volume was sent to or received from Arab and Persian inh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1850-31 Oct 1852
Extent:
1 volume (137 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/74

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/74
Title:
Native letters outward
Scope & Content:
The file consists of letters drafted from the British Residency in the Persian Gulf: Draft letter to Abdullah bin Ahmed, acknowledging that properties of Adeed's merchants were plundered by the Bani Yas, not considering this as a good enough reason for British intervention, but promising to writ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1837-19 Jul 1837
Extent:
1 volume, 5 items (6 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/133
Title:
'Book 181 - 1852'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence for the Persian Gulf Residency. At the start of 1852 Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell is Resident, before being superseded in March by Captain Arnold Kemball. The volume includes: Correspondence with the British Envoy at the C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Dec 1851-14 Dec 1852
Extent:
1 volume (146 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/44

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/44
Title:
'Book No: 52'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence book consists of translations and substances of letters, with enclosures, addressed to Captain David Wilson, British Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, Mirza Hadayat Ullah [Mīrzā Hidāyatullāh] and Captain Samuel Hennell. The dates of the letters are given using the Grego...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
15 Nov 1827-19 Sep 1828
Extent:
1 volume (96 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/59

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/59
Title:
Vol 77: Native Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
This file consists of contemporaneous copies or summaries of letters received by the Resident in the Persian Gulf (usually based at Bushire but temporarily residing on the Island of Corgo, following an outbreak of the plague) from a number of East India Company native agents, including those at ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1832-24 Nov 1832
Extent:
1 volume (29 folios)

9. 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)

10. IOR/R/15/1/50

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/50
Title:
Vol 63: Draft Native Letters Outward
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of draft letters outwards from the British Resident in the Persian Gulf; up to 1831 the office holder is David Wilson, but following his departure Samuel Hennell fills the position — in an acting capacity — until the end of the volume. The correspondence can be divided into ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1829-3 Jan 1832
Extent:
1 volume, (89 folios)